04-22-2006, 11:10 AM
[cool][#0000ff]Wanna buy a "third hand" Cougar...cheap?[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]TubeBabe and I agree that "our brand" of fishing is much better from tubes than from toons. Apparently, the only benefits of the toon are having oars for better long range propulsion and the higher fishing platform. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I prefer "hands free" fishing, without having to keep grabbing the oars. If you don't use the oars, you can't fish, and if you have to use the oars you can't fish. Dilemma.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]As we all agree, toons are nice on days that are dead flat calm. That don't happen much in Utah, or any other state I have fished either. I cannot recall a single day in Utah where breezes...from mild to gale force...have not been an issue for at least part or all of the day. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]In my old age I have become both more practical and more cynical...and analytical. I maintain that if I invest my valuable time and spend my money (GA$ PRICE$) to go enjoy myself (fishing), then dagnabbit I wanna get some enjoys and not waste a moment of it. If the wind cuts my day short, because I can't fish effectively, then I have been robbed. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Yes, I anticipate that there COULD be some great trips in that toon. But, being practical, I also know that there COULD also be a lot of trashed trips, that would still be fishable and productive from the tube.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I recently bought a small 15 foot flat-bottom aluminum boat with a 40 horse Merc and two electric motors...bow and stern. It is a great fishing boat, put together by another BFT member here in Utah. I have named it the "Tube Ferry". In addition to allowing us to troll for wipers and other trollable fishies, it will also serve to carry our Fat Cats to more remote spots otherwise inaccessible to our tubes. So...we don' need no steenking pontoons to get distance.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]One of the things I wanted to determine on the shakedown cruise was whether or not we should both have pontoons in our arsenal or neither of us. We have neither an abundance of excess cash or available storage space. The mutual evaluation is that we would not use the toons enough to justify buying another and making room for both in our limited storage space.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]So...wanna buy a Cougar...cheap?[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]TubeBabe and I agree that "our brand" of fishing is much better from tubes than from toons. Apparently, the only benefits of the toon are having oars for better long range propulsion and the higher fishing platform. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I prefer "hands free" fishing, without having to keep grabbing the oars. If you don't use the oars, you can't fish, and if you have to use the oars you can't fish. Dilemma.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]As we all agree, toons are nice on days that are dead flat calm. That don't happen much in Utah, or any other state I have fished either. I cannot recall a single day in Utah where breezes...from mild to gale force...have not been an issue for at least part or all of the day. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]In my old age I have become both more practical and more cynical...and analytical. I maintain that if I invest my valuable time and spend my money (GA$ PRICE$) to go enjoy myself (fishing), then dagnabbit I wanna get some enjoys and not waste a moment of it. If the wind cuts my day short, because I can't fish effectively, then I have been robbed. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Yes, I anticipate that there COULD be some great trips in that toon. But, being practical, I also know that there COULD also be a lot of trashed trips, that would still be fishable and productive from the tube.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I recently bought a small 15 foot flat-bottom aluminum boat with a 40 horse Merc and two electric motors...bow and stern. It is a great fishing boat, put together by another BFT member here in Utah. I have named it the "Tube Ferry". In addition to allowing us to troll for wipers and other trollable fishies, it will also serve to carry our Fat Cats to more remote spots otherwise inaccessible to our tubes. So...we don' need no steenking pontoons to get distance.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]One of the things I wanted to determine on the shakedown cruise was whether or not we should both have pontoons in our arsenal or neither of us. We have neither an abundance of excess cash or available storage space. The mutual evaluation is that we would not use the toons enough to justify buying another and making room for both in our limited storage space.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]So...wanna buy a Cougar...cheap?[/#0000ff]
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