06-06-2006, 11:50 AM
[cool][#0000ff]Excellent point. Even more important than fishing fun and efficiency is "fish control". There are lots of species with teeth and spines that are not friendly to inflated devices. It is good to be able to control your fish and keep them at rod's distance from your craft until you can safely and securely either net them or lift them aboard.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Just about every "unscheduled" return to shore, with a shrinking tube, has been the result of having a spiny fish bounce off the top surface of my tube. It is a subsection of Murphy's Law that says that "Whenever a spiny fish encounters your air chamber, it will be spines first."[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Just about every "unscheduled" return to shore, with a shrinking tube, has been the result of having a spiny fish bounce off the top surface of my tube. It is a subsection of Murphy's Law that says that "Whenever a spiny fish encounters your air chamber, it will be spines first."[/#0000ff]
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