08-09-2004, 11:33 AM
[url "javascript: addTag('cool')"][cool][/url][#0000ff]To me, a "long trip" in a float tube would be any journey that requires a long period of sustained kicking to either get to where you want to fish, or to return when you want to get out of the water. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Most fishing excursions for me are built around using weather patterns to help me move down a shoreline, fishing as I go, when the morning breezes are blowing their normal direction. Then, when they lay down and gradually begin to blow the other way (as they do on many lakes), I take that as my cue to "go with the flow" and begin working my way back to the vehicle.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]In some cases, you do not have easy vehicle access to a point or cove you might like to fish, and you have to launch a fair distance away. That means you have to kick for a half hour or more to even get to your fishing area, and then the same on the way back. That is, unless a stiff wind has come up, blowing directly at you from the direction you need to go to get back. That is Murphy's Law, applied to fishing. It always seems to happen that way.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]A one piece tube? Don't recall putting it in those terms. I may have made reference to multiple air chambers. Pontoons usually have two, and the Fish Cat craft have dual air chambers too. Those are more trouble to inflate but they offer a measure of safety in the event of a spine puncture or other intrusion upon your air chamber.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The other possible meaning, as I interpret it, would be the difference between a pontoon style design as opposed to a Vboat, like the Fish Cats and Fat Cats. Pontoons usually sit higher in the water and are more difficult to jockey in the wind, even if they have the pointed air chambers. The upraised bow, with a point, on the Cats models have proven to be much easier to power into wind and waves, and they also help with efficient movement across the water during normal operation.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Hope that addresses the questions.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Most fishing excursions for me are built around using weather patterns to help me move down a shoreline, fishing as I go, when the morning breezes are blowing their normal direction. Then, when they lay down and gradually begin to blow the other way (as they do on many lakes), I take that as my cue to "go with the flow" and begin working my way back to the vehicle.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]In some cases, you do not have easy vehicle access to a point or cove you might like to fish, and you have to launch a fair distance away. That means you have to kick for a half hour or more to even get to your fishing area, and then the same on the way back. That is, unless a stiff wind has come up, blowing directly at you from the direction you need to go to get back. That is Murphy's Law, applied to fishing. It always seems to happen that way.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]A one piece tube? Don't recall putting it in those terms. I may have made reference to multiple air chambers. Pontoons usually have two, and the Fish Cat craft have dual air chambers too. Those are more trouble to inflate but they offer a measure of safety in the event of a spine puncture or other intrusion upon your air chamber.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The other possible meaning, as I interpret it, would be the difference between a pontoon style design as opposed to a Vboat, like the Fish Cats and Fat Cats. Pontoons usually sit higher in the water and are more difficult to jockey in the wind, even if they have the pointed air chambers. The upraised bow, with a point, on the Cats models have proven to be much easier to power into wind and waves, and they also help with efficient movement across the water during normal operation.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Hope that addresses the questions.[/#0000ff]
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