Might be a honey hole!

[Outdoor Writer]

Amanda,

 

I've used one with oars, and although it is better than nothing, it can be a real pain when there's the slightest breeze because you have to constantly put your rod down and use the oars to keep the boat positioned properly. It's sorta like using a hand-controled trolling motor on a bassboat rather than one you can control with your foot while still casting. With a float tube and fins, you just use your feet to move about and keep on fishing. -TONY

[CouesWhitetail]

Yes, I know all that. But for someone like Jim, who said he was worried about what lurks in the depths, it might still be better than hauling his boat out there. And I bet you can rig an anchor of some kind so you just row out to a spot and fish it for awhile and then move.

 

Amanda

[Red Rabbit]

I have both. With a float tube, you certainly don't want to fish the other side of the lake and expect to get there fast. Better to walk around and put in on the shore you want to fish. A tube might be best for Jim's pond if he has to hike a ways through the salt cedars.

 

With a pontoon, I still use flippers for control and slow fly trolling if it's not too breezy. The advantage is faster point-to-point motion at the expense of wind and packability. The pontoon has an anchor system, but a small anchor can be used with the tube also.

 

I often thought of a drift sock for my canoe. Might be consideration for the pontoon.

[Outdoor Writer]

Yes, I know all that. But for someone like Jim, who said he was worried about what lurks in the depths, it might still be better than hauling his boat out there. And I bet you can rig an anchor of some kind so you just row out to a spot and fish it for awhile and then move.

 

Amanda

 

It's too bad Jim is such a sissy. -TONY

[Red Rabbit]

Tony,

That Browning is the same model I began with. Entry and exit through the donut hole while wearing flippers was often amusing to onlookers.

 

Doug~RR

[CouesWhitetail]

Yes, I know all that. But for someone like Jim, who said he was worried about what lurks in the depths, it might still be better than hauling his boat out there. And I bet you can rig an anchor of some kind so you just row out to a spot and fish it for awhile and then move.

 

Amanda

 

It's too bad Jim is such a sissy. -TONY

 

 

 

Well, what can we expect from someone who posts in the forum fairly often that he "screamed like a girl"

 

Just wait til he gets on here and posts the Alligator pics from his new honey hole! Then we will all know that he really had a good reason not to dangle his toes in the water!

 

Amanda

[Outdoor Writer]

Oh come on, Bwana Jim scream like a girl?

 

I doubt there are any alligators, but he might come across a toothy fish in the water such as

 

 

 

or one of these lurking in the salt cedars. -TONY

 

[Outdoor Writer]

Tony,

That Browning is the same model I began with. Entry and exit through the donut hole while wearing flippers was often amusing to onlookers.

 

Doug~RR

 

No problema. My shoulders are narrow enough where I can drop mine over my head. -TONY

[KGAINES]

Jim I don't care what anyone says, there are bodies of water around the valley that would seem to support gators. You have all these people that buy these exotic reptiles which include, venomous snakes, constrictors, gators, and crocodiles, plus the piranha ( I know not a reptile, but still scary). What happens if they just let them go.

[billrquimby]

Jim I don't care what anyone says, there are bodies of water around the valley that would seem to support gators. You have all these people that buy these exotic reptiles which include, venomous snakes, constrictors, gators, and crocodiles, plus the piranha ( I know not a reptile, but still scary). What happens if they just let them go.

 

When I was growing up in Yuma someone killed an alligator that was more than 12 feet long near the old Cibola Landing on the river.

 

It was back in the days when they still had five and dime stores selling 3-to-4-inch-long baby alligators for pets, and quite a few foot-long gators eventually turned up in the canals and river after their owners got tired of them.

 

Such a big one found in the Colorado River made news across the country, though, and a photo appeared in the old Arizona Wildlife Sportsman Magazine. This was in about 1952-53. I still was in high school.

 

I have a copy of that issue somewhere.

 

Bill Quimby

[billrquimby]

Jim I don't care what anyone says, there are bodies of water around the valley that would seem to support gators. You have all these people that buy these exotic reptiles which include, venomous snakes, constrictors, gators, and crocodiles, plus the piranha ( I know not a reptile, but still scary). What happens if they just let them go.

 

When I was growing up in Yuma someone killed an alligator that was more than 12 feet long near the old Cibola Landing on the river.

 

It was back in the days when they still had five and dime stores selling 3-to-4-inch-long baby alligators for pets, and quite a few foot-long gators eventually turned up in the canals and river after their owners got tired of them.

 

Such a big one found in the Colorado River made news across the country, though, and a photo appeared in the old Arizona Wildlife Sportsman Magazine. This was in about 1952-53. I still was in high school.

 

I have a copy of that issue somewhere.

 

Bill Quimby

[COOSEFAN]

You guys are too funny!!! To set the record straight.....I am a sissy when it comes to certain things and I'm man enough to admit it! I'm also man enough to admit that I scream like a girl when I come face to face with those things that I'm sissy about!

 

I got picture proof now that validates my fears about this pond. My wife got pictures yesterday of a creature lurking in this very pond!!! I've also got proof now that it is indeed a "honey hole"!!!

 

Problem is that Photobucket is down right now and it's WAY past this sissy's bedtime

[COOSEFAN]

Alright......here's the proof! My wife was brave enough to stay and take a picture of this elusive water creature......while I was runnin' and screaming like a girl!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well...........the miniature "Loch Ness Monster" finally found a log and climbed out My wife yelled for me to get my "sissy ---" back down there and that it was just a "water rat"! Is this a Muskrat?

 

[COOSEFAN]

Oh yeah.........and I did determine last night that, indeed this is a "honey hole"!! My brother, Tommy, and I drug the "lead sled" down into the pond. That was a bigger task than I previously thought it would be!! With pulled muscles and soaked with sweat we finally got 'er in the water and finally got some serious fishing in. We finally figured out where the fish were and what they were biting on with about 20 minutes left of light. In that 20 minutes we boated 7 bass and lost a few to the reeds...........and if we wouldn't have taken the time to mess with photos, I bet we could have doubled our catch! The best part is that all the fish were big, and left you wonderin' how big the next one's gonna be! It was fast and furious for a short time and all we were doing was flipping skirted jigs into the reeds! It was definitely worth the hassle but I do need to get a smaller boat!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[tjhunt2]

Jim, don't worry about what others say on here caus I fall in that sissy category as well. I know where you comin from. I was attacked by the very same creature in my honey hole and I was fortunate to get away but I never recovered my float tube or fins . It was an awful scene and I am not able to go back in the water since. Here is the bruises this guy can put on you.

Jim, what ever you do, stay out of the water.

TJ