# Tube Advice **URL:** \ **Category:** Float Tubing General\ **Created:** [April 21, 2010, 5:42pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/tube-advice/167999 "2010-04-21T17:42:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bmitchell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cdc98d/32.png) [@bmitchell](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/bmitchell)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 5:42pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/tube-advice/167999/1 "2010-04-21T17:42:05Z")
Looking to replace a previous tube that I purchased on a whim and failed to fully research. After a failure in the middle of Lake Mead, I will not do that again. I am wanting to see what some of you think. I am looking at the Outcast Fish Cat 4 and the Outcast Super Fat Cats as possibilities. I am 6’4" and 250 lbs (and shrinking) so I want something reliable. Anyone have good things or bad things to say about those two? Other suggestions for someone my size? Thanks to all. ---
**Author:** ![TubeDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@TubeDude](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/TubeDude)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 6:37pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/tube-advice/167999/2 "2010-04-21T18:37:24Z")
🕶 **The Fish Cat will float you, but you will be so much happier with a Fat Cat…or Super Fat Cat. More floatation, bigger pockets, etc. Plus the valves are better.** * * * **In a choice between foam seats and inflated seats, the inflated have more leeway for adjustability…for comfot. They also fold up into a smaller space for storage or transport. But, the foam seats work fine and don’t get leaks. However, they do sag over time and need some added support…or a supplemental seat like I use.** * * * **I am an inch shorter but twenty pounds heavier than you. Never a question of floatability in the Fat Cat. But, when I tried a Fish Cat I didn’t have much freeboard left and the front end was so much shorter I felt like I was going to tip forward or slide out.** ---
**Author:** ![bmitchell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cdc98d/32.png) [@bmitchell](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/bmitchell)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 7:13pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/tube-advice/167999/3 "2010-04-21T19:13:00Z")
From everything I have read, it seems others echo your concerns of the Fish Cat. I believe I am leaning towards the SFC. ---
**Author:** ![albinotrout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7c8e57/32.png) [@albinotrout](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/albinotrout)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 10:04pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/tube-advice/167999/4 "2010-04-21T22:04:08Z")
What tube did you have that failed? I am looking for an economical tube that I can keep at my home away from home when I am on the road working (which is weekly). ---
**Author:** ![michaelnel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/0ea827/32.png) [@michaelnel](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/michaelnel)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 10:31pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/tube-advice/167999/5 "2010-04-21T22:31:33Z")
However, they do sag over time What doesn’t? [;)] ---
**Author:** ![flygoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@flygoddess](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/flygoddess)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 12:50am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/tube-advice/167999/6 "2010-04-22T00:50:45Z")
I still have a H3 DIRT CHEAP! 😆😆 ---
**Author:** ![TubeDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@TubeDude](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/TubeDude)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 1:07am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/tube-advice/167999/7 "2010-04-22T01:07:10Z")
However, they do sag over time What doesn’t? [;)] 🕶\*\*Hey, let’s not get personal…or clinical. \*\* * * * **I resemble that remark.** * * * **Time plus gravity equals sag.** ---
**Author:** ![bmitchell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cdc98d/32.png) [@bmitchell](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/bmitchell)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 8:46pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/tube-advice/167999/8 "2010-04-26T20:46:11Z")
I had the water skeeter day tripper. Bought it at Bass Pro in Las Vegas without a whole lot of research. Needed something that would hold someone my size and they suggested that. Only a handful of times being used and it failed miserably. ---
**Author:** ![flygoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@flygoddess](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/flygoddess)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 10:30pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/tube-advice/167999/9 "2010-04-26T22:30:23Z")
So did I, but not cause of my size. I thought it looked cool… ![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/bigfishtackle/original/2X/f/f59056909da928545b4e6456fc4e027cbc533245.jpeg) Beauty is only skin deep! 😆😆😆