05-05-2012, 02:56 PM
[cool][#0000ff]I share your attitude. Huh? What is so special? No obvious great design changes that could radically improve performance. In fact, I can see a couple of things that could be problematic...at least for the kind of fishing I do. The fins I prefer have big soft pockets and easily adjustable straps to allow for adding bulk during cold weather or reducing it in warmer weather. That allows using the same pair of fins over the course of a full year.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]In California there are not the temperature extremes throughout the year as there are in Utah, but....[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I gotta suspect that more than a few of those who sing the praises of the Hot Spot fins simply tried them under "me too" pressure...and found them to be okay. I doubt that many tried them in comparison to more than one or two other types. Or, in some cases, I doubt they did any comparison shopping at all...but just bought them on sale at Turners because that's what everybody else was doing.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Hard to say without being able to try them myself. I have tried a bunch over the years. I can usually get a pretty good feel pretty quickly as to how I like the size of the blade, the stiffness and the propulsion efficiency. But what I like doesn't mean they would be good for every body else too. As we have discussed before, there are a lot of differences in anglers' body size and strength, styles of fishing and kicking...and in the structure of their ride. You have a lot more leg in the water with a low seating tube than from a higher seating NFO or pontoon.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]There are a bewildering number of fin designs available these days...between those especially designed and marketed as "float tube fins" and the sometimes extreme designs for scuba diving. You can't possibly try them all and find all of them equally wonderful.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Bottom line is that if they work for some folks and the price is right then that is all that counts.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]In California there are not the temperature extremes throughout the year as there are in Utah, but....[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I gotta suspect that more than a few of those who sing the praises of the Hot Spot fins simply tried them under "me too" pressure...and found them to be okay. I doubt that many tried them in comparison to more than one or two other types. Or, in some cases, I doubt they did any comparison shopping at all...but just bought them on sale at Turners because that's what everybody else was doing.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Hard to say without being able to try them myself. I have tried a bunch over the years. I can usually get a pretty good feel pretty quickly as to how I like the size of the blade, the stiffness and the propulsion efficiency. But what I like doesn't mean they would be good for every body else too. As we have discussed before, there are a lot of differences in anglers' body size and strength, styles of fishing and kicking...and in the structure of their ride. You have a lot more leg in the water with a low seating tube than from a higher seating NFO or pontoon.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]There are a bewildering number of fin designs available these days...between those especially designed and marketed as "float tube fins" and the sometimes extreme designs for scuba diving. You can't possibly try them all and find all of them equally wonderful.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Bottom line is that if they work for some folks and the price is right then that is all that counts.[/#0000ff]
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