09-22-2008, 05:45 PM
I have one of those units and while they will "find fish" they are at times overly sensitive (lots of false hits).. they can also be hard to spot (you need to locate where the floating unit is to figure out where the fish may be) and since I used mine from shore and cast it out on a spare rod.. I found it to be a little cumbersome at times to have to carry a spare rod..
I never used mine on a float tube but I would think that if you got it out far enough to do any good.. you would be getting yourself tangled in to it a lot.. (just a guess)..
they (hummingbird) also have that same set up but instead of the wrist receiver you use a small "console" receiver that you could use say velcro to hold it in a convenient place on the tube..
now with all of that said there are several tubers on this board that use a fishing buddy set up.. or a similar type of fish finder on their tube/toons/pontubes.. one of which is FG who fly fishes only.. maybe she and other fly flingers will give their views.. :-)
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I never used mine on a float tube but I would think that if you got it out far enough to do any good.. you would be getting yourself tangled in to it a lot.. (just a guess)..
they (hummingbird) also have that same set up but instead of the wrist receiver you use a small "console" receiver that you could use say velcro to hold it in a convenient place on the tube..
now with all of that said there are several tubers on this board that use a fishing buddy set up.. or a similar type of fish finder on their tube/toons/pontubes.. one of which is FG who fly fishes only.. maybe she and other fly flingers will give their views.. :-)
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