02-12-2003, 11:46 AM
[cool]Without becoming too clinical, let me just say that I carry some heavy duty plastic bags, that can be maneuvered down the front of the waders in an emergency. Once filled, you twist them closed and wrap them sealed with a heavy rubber band for proper disposal later. They also make great hand-launched missiles for deterring water skiers and PWC.
Obviously, the best defense against "bladder splatter" is to regulate your intake both before you go afloat and during your trip. What goes in must come out. But, in a float tube there is a strange "Twilight Zone" thing that happens. Every twelve ounce "libation" turns into at least two or three times as much liquid in your "bilges". Never could figure out how that happens.
If you are jockying around a standard round tube, you sit lower in the water and just about have to go to shore to "download". In some of the new kick boats and pontoons, however, you sit with your nether regions either right at water level or even above it. If you are flexible, and the urgency is great enough, you can drop the front of your waders to pollute the water.
Hold on now, you environmentalists. I'm not advising befouling the water systems. But the "contribution" of one distressed float tuber is nothing compared to all of the municipal and agricultural runoff in most of our waters. But, if you see carp leaping out on the bank, committing suicide after you relieve yourself, you might wanna switch brands on that redneck measuring tape thing.
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Obviously, the best defense against "bladder splatter" is to regulate your intake both before you go afloat and during your trip. What goes in must come out. But, in a float tube there is a strange "Twilight Zone" thing that happens. Every twelve ounce "libation" turns into at least two or three times as much liquid in your "bilges". Never could figure out how that happens.
If you are jockying around a standard round tube, you sit lower in the water and just about have to go to shore to "download". In some of the new kick boats and pontoons, however, you sit with your nether regions either right at water level or even above it. If you are flexible, and the urgency is great enough, you can drop the front of your waders to pollute the water.
Hold on now, you environmentalists. I'm not advising befouling the water systems. But the "contribution" of one distressed float tuber is nothing compared to all of the municipal and agricultural runoff in most of our waters. But, if you see carp leaping out on the bank, committing suicide after you relieve yourself, you might wanna switch brands on that redneck measuring tape thing.
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