mr magoo Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 howdy folks i am currently fitting a tuna tube to my boat and was wondering what size pumps you guys use ta arman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
achjimmy Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 howdy folks i am currently fitting a tuna tube to my boat and was wondering what size pumps you guys use ta arman Mate whats a tuna tube? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le Pasha Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 They look like this. You put live striped tuna and yellowfin in there to keep them alive as baits for marlin. The pump supplies water to the tubes to keep the tuna alive, most are black inside to keep the tuna calm. As you can imagine it is not that easy to fit tuna into a live bait tank and that is where the tubes are more useful. Not too many boats have them though. Daniel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
achjimmy Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 They look like this. You put live striped tuna and yellowfin in there to keep them alive as baits for marlin. The pump supplies water to the tubes to keep the tuna alive, most are black inside to keep the tuna calm. As you can imagine it is not that easy to fit tuna into a live bait tank and that is where the tubes are more useful. Not too many boats have them though. Daniel Thanx, dont look too hard to make if you know a sheety or fabricater. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warnie Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 howdy folks i am currently fitting a tuna tube to my boat and was wondering what size pumps you guys use ta arman Hi arman... i have twin tuna tubes built into the back of the transom of the boat and the pump's that feed these tubes are a Johnson flexible impellar pump f4b-19 12/24 v DC In all honesty to get these tubes manufactered and installed cost me a small fortune where as the boat i had prior to the present one....that tuna tube consisted of a cut to length of 150 pvc sewer pipe with a funnell from the hardware inserted inside to capture and concentrate the flow through the bait's mouth and was just allowed to over flow into the motor well out the back nothing fancy about it .....this was fed via a rule 1100 gph pump in the identical fashion you would a live bait tank with the hose from the pump connected to the neck of the funnell standing proud after being inserted through the centre bottom cap on the inside of the tube.....as allready mentioned the inside is painted black which aids in keeping the bait calm.... a bye far cheaper and cruder version than say the one posted by daniel but just as effective all the same...... Cheers Warnie...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr magoo Posted December 21, 2007 Author Share Posted December 21, 2007 thanks warnie exactly the info i was after ta arman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djmac Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 as warnie has said pvc pipe makes great tubes. specially that you can make them portable. as we all know you tend to run out of space pretty quickly in a trailerboat. if you want to look the part go have a word to a local welder. i got a row of 2 slimey size and 2 tuna sized tubes made up for around $150. they were perfect and sat on the front of my engine well under my cutting board. no need to spend $700 on the reelax ones. hell thats another tiagra right there! Col Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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