How to Fish a SUP Customs Micro Skiff – Complete Guide to Trolling Motor Setups
What I cover in this video
- People asked for more instructional videos — we've shown how to run a board, but not how you actually fish from one.
- The flat deck lets any fishing tool go anywhere: trolling motor up front, engine in back, Power-Pole to anchor down.
- We started on a negative five tide, got way back where the fish were trapped, and did good on redfish and snook.
- As the water came up we ran the coastline, hitting creek mouth after creek mouth looking for moving water.
- A redfish missed my topwater three times. I sat down, waited for him, twisted it once and he inhaled it.
Read the full script Everything I say in this video, word for word
Everyone, David, SUP Customs. Just out and about fishing today. And U, we did a survey while back, and a lot of people want to know, how do you fish on a board? More instructional videos on that. So we've done everything else — how to run a board, how to do this and that — but how do you fish on a board? Pretty simple, because of the flat deck and the ability to put any fishing tool anywhere. Trolling motors right where they need to be on front, easily put them on front, engines in the back, Power-Pole micro pole anchor down. Everything you can do on these
things is like, like a skiff. That's why I compare it more to a skiff than I do a kayak. Portability is the only thing I really compare to a, to a kayak, and maybe weight, and 65 lb, 700 lb capacity for this board. But anyways, we're out and about today, and we started off with a negative tide, negative five. So we got ourselves way to the back where the fish are trapped, and we did good. Liv and Austin caught a bunch of red fish and some holes gem back there, fly fish to snook kind of stuck in the back. But then as the water came up, these
these fish are going under these mangroves. You can see them behind me, they'll go into these mangroves and they'll come out and go in. That's why I don't like a lot of the, the high tide fishing, because the, the fish are way back in the mangroves underneath, and either got to chum them out, or or know where to fish through experience. But we came out, out here, and all we did is just ran off coastline. And you can see behind me, all we did is this, hit creek mountain mouth after creek mouth after creek mouth, finding a lot of incoming tide, moving water. And I started
off with this paddle tail from Zman — any paddle tail will do — with a Texas Eye jig head, and just nothing all day. I did some Ned rigging and stuff, and I say, you know what, I'm going to mix it up. So I threw this yui top water a few times, so maybe with all this moving water these fish are going to get aggressive. And sure enough, this red, and he ate about 2 to three feet from my boat. As he got closer he missed, and he missed, and he missed. And then I was like, I stopped that top water there. I literally lowered myself on my butt and sat and waited for him to
get a little closer to it again, and twisted it, and sure enough he just inhaled it. Took me under these mangroves, ran and ran. Thank God I got my micro pole, cuz I got this current coming in. If I wouldn't, I would have drifted so far down, he would have cut me off in those roots. Got my micro pole. Usually I have a trolling motor in front, but that's all you do. And I'm telling you what, I didn't have to one time in fishing for eight hours a day even get, have a concern or worry about the tide. We were, we kind of reverse a lot of people's philosophy.
When the tide was low we were back there, not out here, not, you know, not able to get out. We were back there. And when the tide was up, we heard boats going back, and we came out here. So, whole different philosophy when you get a skinny water machine that's portable. So I hope that helps. Leave, leave a comment if you have any questions. Take it easy.