03-07-2010, 04:42 PM
[cool][#0000ff]I DON'T do it. But, wherever you are fishing over clean sand or mud bottom you will not impact the ecology.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I have not ever...nor will I ever...carry an anchor on my tube. I can hold pretty well even in a fair breeze. But, when the wind is too much for me to hold or to fish with finesse I am headed for shore.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Dragging a chain is a tactic used by driftboaters on some rivers to slow their drift through some holes to allow their bait or lures to work longer before they shoot out the other end. I know a couple of tubers who have also used it on mud bottomed lakes to good effect...without destroying habitat or upsetting the ecology.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Of course that would NEVER be advisable over pristine coral reef...or over spawning beds...etc. But there are times and occasions in which it would be advisable...and the best option to keep an angler fishing. Better than a drift sock that can tangle legs and gear...or sink to the bottom to foul on rocks or other debris.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I have not ever...nor will I ever...carry an anchor on my tube. I can hold pretty well even in a fair breeze. But, when the wind is too much for me to hold or to fish with finesse I am headed for shore.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Dragging a chain is a tactic used by driftboaters on some rivers to slow their drift through some holes to allow their bait or lures to work longer before they shoot out the other end. I know a couple of tubers who have also used it on mud bottomed lakes to good effect...without destroying habitat or upsetting the ecology.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Of course that would NEVER be advisable over pristine coral reef...or over spawning beds...etc. But there are times and occasions in which it would be advisable...and the best option to keep an angler fishing. Better than a drift sock that can tangle legs and gear...or sink to the bottom to foul on rocks or other debris.[/#0000ff]
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