10-22-2009, 03:01 AM
[font "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"]No that reason, when I was a kid back then there were alot of lakes/ponds around me. We had those tire tubes in the pool all those years and became skillful playing with them. That idea never popped in my little growing head to turn it into a fishing machine. I never knew about (fishing) float tubes or any sporting goods stores that carry them back in those days ( and no Internet like today) so that was no way for me to figure that out yet. (I must be "slow")[/font]
How I got started on float tubing in later life was a buddy had two of them from his late dad and uncle who used them and he gave them to me when I told him what I saw about a guy coming out of the woods with something like a tire tube thing. Then I grew from there (and have five tubes!).
So this guy says "added a plywood to the inner tube and used ropes" which made me wanted to see how it was made.[
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How I got started on float tubing in later life was a buddy had two of them from his late dad and uncle who used them and he gave them to me when I told him what I saw about a guy coming out of the woods with something like a tire tube thing. Then I grew from there (and have five tubes!).
So this guy says "added a plywood to the inner tube and used ropes" which made me wanted to see how it was made.[
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