Navigating Negative Tides with SUP Customs Skiffs – Go Where Others Can’t!
What I cover in this video
- Welcome to the back country at a negative one tide. Imagine if this was a negative eight.
- Saw one boat out here and he wasn't coming back this far. We trolling-motored in through a little pocket.
- If we come up on a sand bar we just push over it and keep going. That's why our airboat coating is perfect.
- Battery in the back, a $10 extension cord hider stuck down the middle, and a Walmart splice — you can do this yourself for ten bucks.
- It's an hour and a half from high tide and this is all the water we've got left, so we're easing out to hit the high tide holes.
Read the full script Everything I say in this video, word for word
Hey everyone, David, SUP Customs. Welcome to the back country at a negative one. Imagine if this was a negative 8. So you can see here, this is how we got back here. Saw one boat, he wasn't coming back here. I had a video a while back with my daughter on the cooler, just plucking a red fish over that, that bar, and and sheep head in that corner. So we got back here through trolling motoring through this little, you know, little pocket here. But look at this. Let's pretend I was on a sand bar and I just had to get over something. Not a big deal, right? So that's
this is what we do. We'll, we'll come back in these pockets in these wintertime lows, and usually we can get anywhere we need to go. I mean, that's almost floating there, and I'm in nothing. So, but if we come up to a sandb bar, just push it over and keep going. That's why our airbat coating is perfect. But I want to show you something here. This is something we've been wanting to do for a while. When you're not really running a motor like this board — this board is running a motor, so has a little bit more weight on the stern — but when you want to do weight
distribution with your trolling motor and your battery. So the battery now is back here, for like maybe the bass Skies, you have a little bit of weight, nothing in front. And then look at this: extension cord Hider stuck to the middle here, and a $10 cord that's running from the trolling motor, hooked up here with the splice, this a Walmart splice here. All right, and that cord is just running all the way back to side is telling me the GPS is located, to a another cord right here. And we're testing it today. We're not going to offer to sell it, because
you can Amazon yourself a $10 cord and don't need to pay me for the labor for that splice — it connect it and done. So anyways, that is awesome. I will start recommend, recommending that to everybody. I don't know if you'd want to do that with the 20, 24 volt, but not many people are running 24 volt with a, you know, on these paddle boards. So 12 volt is good. I've called manufacturers that say it's fine. But anyways, if you have any questions, let us know. We're going to ease on out of here and start hitting some really big holes. We got about — believe it or not,
it's almost high tide. So we're an hour and a half from high tide, and this is all the water we have left. So we're going to get out of here and hit some high tide holes. We've been seeing fish kind of running — big old sheep head, big old, big old red fish chasing bait. So they're starting to work their, themselves out to the ba, themselves out to the bay. So we're g to start chasing them down, hopefully out there. So you have any questions, like always, let us know. You want a trial day, let us know. And take it easy guys.