05-17-2012, 02:01 PM
When I bought my first tube a year ago, I wasn't sure how I would like tubing so I bought the cheapest fins I could find -- the Creek Co. Lightweights (see photo). They have gotten extensive use since then on small ponds and large reservoirs in both a float tube and Scadden's much larger Assault XX, and they were certainly always good enough.
Last night at Little Dell, I let my wife use my tube (big mistake -- now she wants one), but she tripped coming ashore and broke one in half. She was very sorry but I said she had done me a big favor because now I had to go out and get better ones.
Certainly you get what you pay for in regards to comfort, ease of attachment and release, and efficiency in finning, but it really wouldn't bother me if the best you could do were the Creek Co. fins -- finning around a lake is just great fun, a good work out, and puts you where the fish are.
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Last night at Little Dell, I let my wife use my tube (big mistake -- now she wants one), but she tripped coming ashore and broke one in half. She was very sorry but I said she had done me a big favor because now I had to go out and get better ones.
Certainly you get what you pay for in regards to comfort, ease of attachment and release, and efficiency in finning, but it really wouldn't bother me if the best you could do were the Creek Co. fins -- finning around a lake is just great fun, a good work out, and puts you where the fish are.
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