06-03-2006, 03:22 PM
[black]Hi all.
To begin, I would like to thank you all for your contributions to what is, and will surely continue to be, a fantastic resource.
For about the last 8 years I have been heavily involved in 4-wheeling here in the Front Range region and have recently had to admit that I am burned out on it. I still love to camp and have decided that I want to do more of just that. But, what to do for 2-4 days on a camping trip? Read? Walk? Ahhh... FISH!
Before I moved to CO. from CA. I enjoyed camping and bank fishing in the smaller lakes and ponds of So. Cal. (mostly the Ojai area) and while contemplating the much greater potential of this region for this type of recreation I remembered how I used to see tubers in the small ponds I fished in CA. and how I'd always thought it would be a really neat way to fish. Seeing how I don't have the desire, cash, or infrastructure to maintain a full-size boat, a tube/toon seemed the best option.
This realization was about... uhh... three days ago. [cool] Since then I have gone from seeing a TU Gunnison in Wal-Mart, through 3 solid days of research and price-shopping, to finally end up, with much credit to this forum, deciding on an ODC 420.
The "Best of the Best" section here was a huge benefit in making what I believe is the best choice for me. One that I would specifically like to refer to is the [/black][url "http://www.sexyloops.com/articles/killerwader.shtml"][black]Mythbusting Killer Wader article[/black][/url][black], as that issue was the one that wasn't letting me have any peace. It's all good now. [sly]
I still have questions and will do, I'm sure, many more hours of reading here (I read this forum for 5 hours straight last night [shocked])
Thanx again, and happy casting!
Rob
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To begin, I would like to thank you all for your contributions to what is, and will surely continue to be, a fantastic resource.
For about the last 8 years I have been heavily involved in 4-wheeling here in the Front Range region and have recently had to admit that I am burned out on it. I still love to camp and have decided that I want to do more of just that. But, what to do for 2-4 days on a camping trip? Read? Walk? Ahhh... FISH!
Before I moved to CO. from CA. I enjoyed camping and bank fishing in the smaller lakes and ponds of So. Cal. (mostly the Ojai area) and while contemplating the much greater potential of this region for this type of recreation I remembered how I used to see tubers in the small ponds I fished in CA. and how I'd always thought it would be a really neat way to fish. Seeing how I don't have the desire, cash, or infrastructure to maintain a full-size boat, a tube/toon seemed the best option.
This realization was about... uhh... three days ago. [cool] Since then I have gone from seeing a TU Gunnison in Wal-Mart, through 3 solid days of research and price-shopping, to finally end up, with much credit to this forum, deciding on an ODC 420.
The "Best of the Best" section here was a huge benefit in making what I believe is the best choice for me. One that I would specifically like to refer to is the [/black][url "http://www.sexyloops.com/articles/killerwader.shtml"][black]Mythbusting Killer Wader article[/black][/url][black], as that issue was the one that wasn't letting me have any peace. It's all good now. [sly]
I still have questions and will do, I'm sure, many more hours of reading here (I read this forum for 5 hours straight last night [shocked])
Thanx again, and happy casting!
Rob
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