01-05-2003, 09:40 PM
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I was having thoughts of giving 3 different bodies of water a try with a tube (trying to justify buying a tube)
First one is the lake I live on with its 12 miles of shoreline
The second is a trout stream (a mile hike back in to the woods but a 3 1/2 winding mile ride back to the parking lot)
And the third is a 100-acre pond 80 feet deep with Lakers in it. (No gas motors allowed on the lake)
Each of the waters has it’s own unique advantages and di
vantages.
The river although it is a mile hike back has about 5000 trout planted in it every spring from 1/2 pound up to 6 pound breeders.
Being three miles of river depending how fast you want to get back you could throw a small sea horse in to tow you back with out much effort.
I am beginning to see many applications where a tube could surpass a rowboat or canoe. Especially when fishing alone. And you have to get across about a 100 yards of ground to get to your water.
Before a disabling car accident, a hundred yards was nothing for me to carry my canoe. Even our rowboat we would carry down to my lake (a 100 yard tote)
I have long since not needed my tackle box and the gear in it has been reduced to the bare minimum. My 3 rods and reels fit in to my box as a result plus my first aid kit fits in as well. All of my terminal gear fits in to a pocket box.
I could easily move in to a tube and not be crowded.
I saw some one post a question about a worn out tube and it made me wonder about filling it with Styrofoam. We did that to our 55-gallon drums to make floatation for our rafts we anchored on the drop off on the lake.
I was thinking of the house insulation foam from a can, removing the valve stem (if indeed there is one) using the straw that comes with the can and sticking in the valve and filling the tube.
Can I assume that the bladder inside the tube is the same material as that of an inner tube?
I don’t have the car tubes any more but I could experiment with a bicycle tire inner tube.
The stuff I used to fill some cracks on my house not only filled the crack but also continued to expand for about an hour after I placed it in to the crack. End result was that I had to cut off the excess with a dry wall saw. Any way if the material were the same I would do the experiment to see what the results would render.
I appreciate the offer of you doing the search for an unsinkable tube; it will be quite some time before I am ready to make a perches of a tube.
I want to get all the information I can before I make that leap so when I go out I can make the best impression I can to those on lookers who may decide to give up motor boating for float tubing.
First one is the lake I live on with its 12 miles of shoreline
The second is a trout stream (a mile hike back in to the woods but a 3 1/2 winding mile ride back to the parking lot)
And the third is a 100-acre pond 80 feet deep with Lakers in it. (No gas motors allowed on the lake)
Each of the waters has it’s own unique advantages and di
vantages.The river although it is a mile hike back has about 5000 trout planted in it every spring from 1/2 pound up to 6 pound breeders.
Being three miles of river depending how fast you want to get back you could throw a small sea horse in to tow you back with out much effort.
I am beginning to see many applications where a tube could surpass a rowboat or canoe. Especially when fishing alone. And you have to get across about a 100 yards of ground to get to your water.
Before a disabling car accident, a hundred yards was nothing for me to carry my canoe. Even our rowboat we would carry down to my lake (a 100 yard tote)
I have long since not needed my tackle box and the gear in it has been reduced to the bare minimum. My 3 rods and reels fit in to my box as a result plus my first aid kit fits in as well. All of my terminal gear fits in to a pocket box.
I could easily move in to a tube and not be crowded.
I saw some one post a question about a worn out tube and it made me wonder about filling it with Styrofoam. We did that to our 55-gallon drums to make floatation for our rafts we anchored on the drop off on the lake.
I was thinking of the house insulation foam from a can, removing the valve stem (if indeed there is one) using the straw that comes with the can and sticking in the valve and filling the tube.
Can I assume that the bladder inside the tube is the same material as that of an inner tube?
I don’t have the car tubes any more but I could experiment with a bicycle tire inner tube.
The stuff I used to fill some cracks on my house not only filled the crack but also continued to expand for about an hour after I placed it in to the crack. End result was that I had to cut off the excess with a dry wall saw. Any way if the material were the same I would do the experiment to see what the results would render.
I appreciate the offer of you doing the search for an unsinkable tube; it will be quite some time before I am ready to make a perches of a tube.
I want to get all the information I can before I make that leap so when I go out I can make the best impression I can to those on lookers who may decide to give up motor boating for float tubing.