sapdawg11
04-24-2011, 02:32 PM
For those of us that float tube, we’ve grown accustomed to a few questions from our colleagues stranded on the shoreline or stuck in place hanging on a boat anchor: “Aren’t you cold?”, “Don’t you get wet?”, “Where do you put all your stuff?”, “Don’t your legs get tired?” and my personal favorite, "It's slow out here. So how come I still keep seeing all of the float tubers getting fish?!”
Looking from the outside in, float tubing can absolutely be intimidating…for some, just the thought of sitting in the water on what looks like a toy raft that could go ***KAPLOW*** at any moment AND spending a decent chunk of change getting to that point is quite a large threshold to cross. But crossing the “inflatable barrier” will change the way you fish and a bunch of people this weekend found that out for themselves! And what’s more is that the fishing was really good. I saw the reports on Friday from a few guys that I've personally seen slaying them out there saying that things were a bit slow, so I have no clue what happened, but the fishing absolutely woke up first thing in the morning on Saturday and went WFO for the early birds. The 5 fish stringer below was caught by one of the veterans (Kerry) that were helping out with the demo BEFORE 8:30 a.m.!!! The 2 biggest fish in this picture are 5.4 and 5.2. UNREAL!
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u15/sapdawg11/042411112321.jpg
The demo was a HUGE success and a complete and total blast. We had the ENTIRE lineup of Outcast float tubes for people to try out and also got our hands on a variety of pumps, waders, fins, etc. so that we were able to walk people through, from start to finish, everything they need to get out there and get tubin'. Everything from breathable waders vs. Neoprene, short rods versus long rods, economy air pumps to electric hurricanes, you name it, people got to check it out. And seeing the enlightenment on people faces was quite simply unreal and made all of the effort worthwhile. I fully expected people to come out, have some fun and see for themselves how easy this float tube stuff is. What I didn’t expect was to see families finding a way to spend more time together outdoors, away from jobs, tv’s and video games…and those aren’t my words, they are straight from the people who made it out there! Just awesome.
Thanks to everyone that made it out and to the Lakes for once again providing us with EVERYTHING we needed for a really fun day. I took a few pictures from the day and those are below but even better, my friend Doug took some of his own pictures and video and produced a really great chronicle of the day’s event that really deserves to be put right up front!
I want to send a gigantic, enormous, gargantuan THANK YOU to every single one of the Inflatable Navy members that took time off of the water to come and help out at the demo day. You guys are the greatest and I really can’t say thanks enough. But I’ll continue to try, THANK YOU!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQy0soOLUIk
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u15/sapdawg11/IMG_8541.jpg
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u15/sapdawg11/IMG_8544.jpg
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u15/sapdawg11/IMG_8550.jpg
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u15/sapdawg11/IMG_8555.jpg
Thanks again guys for another great time. Now I’m ready to go fishing!!! Anybody have a cough they could loan me for work this Tuesday???
Looking from the outside in, float tubing can absolutely be intimidating…for some, just the thought of sitting in the water on what looks like a toy raft that could go ***KAPLOW*** at any moment AND spending a decent chunk of change getting to that point is quite a large threshold to cross. But crossing the “inflatable barrier” will change the way you fish and a bunch of people this weekend found that out for themselves! And what’s more is that the fishing was really good. I saw the reports on Friday from a few guys that I've personally seen slaying them out there saying that things were a bit slow, so I have no clue what happened, but the fishing absolutely woke up first thing in the morning on Saturday and went WFO for the early birds. The 5 fish stringer below was caught by one of the veterans (Kerry) that were helping out with the demo BEFORE 8:30 a.m.!!! The 2 biggest fish in this picture are 5.4 and 5.2. UNREAL!
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u15/sapdawg11/042411112321.jpg
The demo was a HUGE success and a complete and total blast. We had the ENTIRE lineup of Outcast float tubes for people to try out and also got our hands on a variety of pumps, waders, fins, etc. so that we were able to walk people through, from start to finish, everything they need to get out there and get tubin'. Everything from breathable waders vs. Neoprene, short rods versus long rods, economy air pumps to electric hurricanes, you name it, people got to check it out. And seeing the enlightenment on people faces was quite simply unreal and made all of the effort worthwhile. I fully expected people to come out, have some fun and see for themselves how easy this float tube stuff is. What I didn’t expect was to see families finding a way to spend more time together outdoors, away from jobs, tv’s and video games…and those aren’t my words, they are straight from the people who made it out there! Just awesome.
Thanks to everyone that made it out and to the Lakes for once again providing us with EVERYTHING we needed for a really fun day. I took a few pictures from the day and those are below but even better, my friend Doug took some of his own pictures and video and produced a really great chronicle of the day’s event that really deserves to be put right up front!
I want to send a gigantic, enormous, gargantuan THANK YOU to every single one of the Inflatable Navy members that took time off of the water to come and help out at the demo day. You guys are the greatest and I really can’t say thanks enough. But I’ll continue to try, THANK YOU!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQy0soOLUIk
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u15/sapdawg11/IMG_8541.jpg
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u15/sapdawg11/IMG_8544.jpg
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u15/sapdawg11/IMG_8550.jpg
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u15/sapdawg11/IMG_8555.jpg
Thanks again guys for another great time. Now I’m ready to go fishing!!! Anybody have a cough they could loan me for work this Tuesday???