05-21-2011, 08:39 AM
Seems like there were some donut tubes straps for carrying on your back. Maybe just rigged up by some.
Tripping is hard to avoid if you're wearing your tube, waders, and can't see in front of your feet especially on uneven ground and with fins on. Where do you put on fins? If you don't walk with them on to the water, don't you have to get out of your donut at water's edge? Water's edge installment seems easier to me...
Pon
[quote ydoc]Ha, you sound a lot like me! [
] I had one of those old canvas Fishmasters too, and I STILL have a more modern Fishmaster tube (truck tube but with nylon-coated canvas). Still have the Fishmaster strap-on rod-holders and tackleboxes too.
Oh, and WELCOME to the forum!
If I remember right, the old tubes came with shoulder straps so that you could step into the tube on dry-land, and have the straps hold the tube up above your knees so that you could get into the water without killing yourself (tripping).
The new open-front tubes allow you to place the tube in the water and then just "sit into" them. No straps needed for that...
On the other hand, I usually have to carry my tube a ways to get to the farm ponds that I fish. They DO make sturdy padded back-pack styled shoulder straps for that! As I recall, they run $20-$25.
Being the cheapskate that I am, I was going to try to make my own... but a "wiser-me" just opted for the padded straps. I don't think I could fish (transport my tube) without them!
Creek Company makes some inexpensive ones ($10):
[url "http://creekcompany.com/product.php?productid=16186&cat=250&page=1"]http://creekcompany.com/...p;cat=250&page=1[/url]
Here are the padded ones made by Outcast:
[url "http://www.outcastboats.com/outcast/products/accessories.aspx?cat=11&id=52"]http://www.outcastboats.com/...spx?cat=11&id=52[/url]
Fish safe... [.img][url "http://www.bigfishtackle.com/images/gforum/happy.gif[/img][/quote]"]http://www.bigfishtackle.com/...y.gif[/img][/quote][/url]
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Tripping is hard to avoid if you're wearing your tube, waders, and can't see in front of your feet especially on uneven ground and with fins on. Where do you put on fins? If you don't walk with them on to the water, don't you have to get out of your donut at water's edge? Water's edge installment seems easier to me...
Pon
[quote ydoc]Ha, you sound a lot like me! [
] I had one of those old canvas Fishmasters too, and I STILL have a more modern Fishmaster tube (truck tube but with nylon-coated canvas). Still have the Fishmaster strap-on rod-holders and tackleboxes too. Oh, and WELCOME to the forum!
If I remember right, the old tubes came with shoulder straps so that you could step into the tube on dry-land, and have the straps hold the tube up above your knees so that you could get into the water without killing yourself (tripping).
The new open-front tubes allow you to place the tube in the water and then just "sit into" them. No straps needed for that...
On the other hand, I usually have to carry my tube a ways to get to the farm ponds that I fish. They DO make sturdy padded back-pack styled shoulder straps for that! As I recall, they run $20-$25.
Being the cheapskate that I am, I was going to try to make my own... but a "wiser-me" just opted for the padded straps. I don't think I could fish (transport my tube) without them!
Creek Company makes some inexpensive ones ($10):
[url "http://creekcompany.com/product.php?productid=16186&cat=250&page=1"]http://creekcompany.com/...p;cat=250&page=1[/url]
Here are the padded ones made by Outcast:
[url "http://www.outcastboats.com/outcast/products/accessories.aspx?cat=11&id=52"]http://www.outcastboats.com/...spx?cat=11&id=52[/url]
Fish safe... [.img][url "http://www.bigfishtackle.com/images/gforum/happy.gif[/img][/quote]"]http://www.bigfishtackle.com/...y.gif[/img][/quote][/url]
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