easter day in a float tube

Went fishing today beautiful weather. Grabbed the float tube and headed out with my little 6' 4/5wt with a 5wt float on it to echo pond. for two hrs i got nothing nothing not even a nibble tried a bunch of flies, till i was ready to change to a different pond I went to recast one last time and hooked a small mouth bass on a Micky fin, great fight. 14" not sure the weight. Caught one more an hr later before the rain came and i headed in. would have stayed but reports of possibility of t- storms. all and all great day. only downside was when the seat stitching came loose on one side of my tube i still was able to fish but made comfort hard. well fix it later tonight and add some reinforcement to the seat as well.

Great work Char. Always nice to get the first of the year.

Jerry

well after spending some time deflating my tube. I found out why the seat let go. I'm FAT!!! no no no kidding seems the stitching thread was well sub par. and the let go from the stress of me moving, well after 10 min on the sewing machine with some mono thread shes back up to par. though i'm thinking I might find a means to reinforce the seat better.

thanks yes it was great to bad no good for eating