Rinsing Your Tube After Using It In The Saltwater

You could use a portable bilge pump and a 5 gl bucket and some hose.

You could use a puddle pump like from Home Depot with hose connections to a 5 gl bucket. Use a Harbor Freight Inverter and just plug into your cig lighter. Shoot, buy the pump at HF too.

You could use a "Hudson" garden style sprayer.

You could use a 5gl bucket and just bale the water to rinse things off.

You could use the hose at the various launch points near the small sail boat storage areas like they have at NP.

You could use a 5gl bucket and a toy water cannon. Take the cannon on board when you fish to nail rowers. I like this one. Multi tasking.

Use the showers at places that provide them e.g. sheriff station at NP.

Wait until you get home.

Hang with Vagabond and borrow his cleaning system. He likes to lend stuff out. I should know.

waxon67 wrote:You could use a portable bilge pump and a 5 gl bucket and some hose.

You could use a puddle pump like from Home Depot with hose connections to a 5 gl bucket. Use a Harbor Freight Inverter and just plug into your cig lighter. Shoot, buy the pump at HF too.

You could use a "Hudson" garden style sprayer.

You could use a 5gl bucket and just bale the water to rinse things off.

You could use the hose at the various launch points near the small sail boat storage areas like they have at NP.

You could use a 5gl bucket and a toy water cannon. Take the cannon on board when you fish to nail rowers. I like this one. Multi tasking.

Use the showers at places that provide them e.g. sheriff station at NP.

Wait until you get home.

Hang with Vagabond and borrow his cleaning system. He likes to lend stuff out. I should know.

Lol! You forgot When it rains...

Lol! You forgot When it rains...[/quote]

Ha ha! Shoot if were talking let it rain then how about just leaving it in the back of your pick up and going through a drive through car wash? Again...multi tasking.

Docrunner wrote:

Vagabond wrote:
But I am a total gear cleaning addict I wash every thing down when I get home and am actually working on putting a 5 gallon water tank with sprayer on my truck so I can rinse stuff on site or when in the Sierras.

Like this?

Nomad2Go.

www(DOT)nomad2go(DOT)com/pressure-washer-washing/nomad-18-volt-cordless(DOT)aspx

My bud has this in his truck and says it's awesome! No more wife b*tch*ng about him and his son dragging sand back home whenever they go surf fishing or kayaking. Seems pricey at $250, but they say it's totally worth it.

Forum won't let me post links yet, cuz I'm a noob!

Harbor Freight has an electric pressure washer pretty portable and pretty cheap. Might be worth a look.

Never unzip mine, just hose it off real good with fresh water. My tube is in the salt 99.99% of the time.

I 100% tube in the salt, I just hose it off when I get home and call it a day.

I actually just picked up one of those Nomad H2O to go sprayers like you guys posted. Just got it off Ebay for about $40 for the unit used plus shipping. All it needed was a new fitting where the hose connects to the tank which was another $4. So far it's pretty awesome and I can fill it with 3.5 gallons of tap, distilled or deionized water.

Another option for about $40-60 Sports Chalet sells a Zodi portable shower that runs off batteries that you just drop the pickup into a container of water and it sprays it out but the pressure isn't that high. I got one for showering when we go the desert and camping and for a portable hot shower their set up is pretty awesome.

I just go with my plan I had when I had my kayak. I carry three gallons of water in the trunk. I wash off my tube and my feet (get rid of the wader foot stink!) and I let the tube start drying while I put my gear away. Warm shower for the rods and reels when I get home.
Let them drain off a little and then spray with Salt X. I have never had any issues with corrision on my gear. Salt X neutralizes salt and it works great.