02-17-2004, 01:11 AM
Heya guys,
I just bought a small electric motor for my boat. I'm thinking about rigging it up hook to my float tube as well. I've never been that enamored with powering my float tube, but there are a couple of lakes I fish that I truly need it. It just isn't feasible to kick around them. Last year on one of them, I spent 3/4ths of my fishing time kicking to the areas I wanted to fish. Unfortunately a couple are at opposite ends of the lake.
Cabeles has a power system for float tubers, but I don't like the price tag. I only plan to use power on my tube a few trips a year, the majority of the time I'll still be kicking. I was thinking an innertube could be strapped to the back of my tube. A battery box and motor mount would both be easy to make and put in the center of the power tube, and I'll probably mount the transducer for the fish finder there as well. From what I can tell, that's what cabelas is basically.
Has anyone ever tried this? I've thought about it before, but buying a battery and motor for 2 trips a year didn't seem worth it. Now that I have them, I'll probably try to build it.
Thanks,
Mark
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I just bought a small electric motor for my boat. I'm thinking about rigging it up hook to my float tube as well. I've never been that enamored with powering my float tube, but there are a couple of lakes I fish that I truly need it. It just isn't feasible to kick around them. Last year on one of them, I spent 3/4ths of my fishing time kicking to the areas I wanted to fish. Unfortunately a couple are at opposite ends of the lake.
Cabeles has a power system for float tubers, but I don't like the price tag. I only plan to use power on my tube a few trips a year, the majority of the time I'll still be kicking. I was thinking an innertube could be strapped to the back of my tube. A battery box and motor mount would both be easy to make and put in the center of the power tube, and I'll probably mount the transducer for the fish finder there as well. From what I can tell, that's what cabelas is basically.
Has anyone ever tried this? I've thought about it before, but buying a battery and motor for 2 trips a year didn't seem worth it. Now that I have them, I'll probably try to build it.
Thanks,
Mark
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