08-08-2005, 10:52 AM
[#005000]Welcome Ric,
You are going to love your new ride when you get it. There are a bazillion ways to customize it. You can check out some of them on this board in the picture section.
For your first trip, you need oars and your fly rod and a couple of flies. If this is your first pontoon, as it seems you indicate, you should concentrate on your boat handleing skills. Let fishing be incidental on your maiden voyage.
I would also suggest a trial run or two of any anchoring you want to attempt in moving water - preferably slow and shallow water. In a raft, there are a lot of things that require your attention while in any class of water - those are the things you should become familiar with prior to attempting any serious fishing or catching.
As you get some miles on the water, you'll discover the things you really need or want to outfit your toon with. After all, on your first trip ever, the very maiden voyage of your craft. it would be a shame to scuttle all of your stuff because some thing important slipped through the cracks - so to speak. It this case, less is definitly more.
BTW - I do speak from some river experience - I've had white water river rafts, and I'm on my second pontoon -I now have a 12 foot pontoon boat(it's like the Cougar's big brother(I have had it on a class 3)). Somewhere on this forum there is a thread with some photos of it. I also use it mostly for fly fishing(I can stand up on it and cast a fly) on rivers, but recently I have started using it on still waters for other types of fishing.
Anyway, Hope to read of your exploits after you've had a chance to take it out for a spin or two.
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Fishhound's 12' cousin to Cougar
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You are going to love your new ride when you get it. There are a bazillion ways to customize it. You can check out some of them on this board in the picture section.
For your first trip, you need oars and your fly rod and a couple of flies. If this is your first pontoon, as it seems you indicate, you should concentrate on your boat handleing skills. Let fishing be incidental on your maiden voyage.
I would also suggest a trial run or two of any anchoring you want to attempt in moving water - preferably slow and shallow water. In a raft, there are a lot of things that require your attention while in any class of water - those are the things you should become familiar with prior to attempting any serious fishing or catching.
As you get some miles on the water, you'll discover the things you really need or want to outfit your toon with. After all, on your first trip ever, the very maiden voyage of your craft. it would be a shame to scuttle all of your stuff because some thing important slipped through the cracks - so to speak. It this case, less is definitly more.
BTW - I do speak from some river experience - I've had white water river rafts, and I'm on my second pontoon -I now have a 12 foot pontoon boat(it's like the Cougar's big brother(I have had it on a class 3)). Somewhere on this forum there is a thread with some photos of it. I also use it mostly for fly fishing(I can stand up on it and cast a fly) on rivers, but recently I have started using it on still waters for other types of fishing.
Anyway, Hope to read of your exploits after you've had a chance to take it out for a spin or two.
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Fishhound's 12' cousin to Cougar
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