Float tube pump?

clarkman said:
I prefer the extra Outcast digital pressure sensor that alerts me to my phone. I just set the range parameters and then fish without a care in the world. Sure, you have to download the Outcast app and make sure your phone is fully charged, but the overkill is so worth it!
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The only problem with this is privacy. I don’t want Outcast sharing or selling my personal PSI information!
 
K mini. BUT this is a game changer for all inflatables big or small. Home or on the road!
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clarkman said:
I prefer the extra Outcast digital pressure sensor that alerts me to my phone. I just set the range parameters and then fish without a care in the world. Sure, you have to download the Outcast app and make sure your phone is fully charged, but the overkill is so worth it!
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Be sure and get the version that measures in Kpa for fishing in Canada !!!
 
Matt B said:
The only problem with this is privacy. I don’t want Outcast sharing or selling my personal PSI information!
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Don't turn on your location data for that app! Outcast sells it to 3rd party fly fishing apps so they know where you're fishing and can alert others. That's why we all know that spot that Shawn was anchored up in the thread about fishing chiros.
 
Once... I was at Pass Lake. My float tube was slowly leaking air. I headed back to the launch immediately, but I was still trolling and catching fish. It was, after all, just a slow leak. I purchased new bladders for my float tube after that day.
 
FWIW, for any leak not on the seam, aquaseal is an easy/effective fix. On the seam means replace.

Seems to be two kinds of fly fisher emerging from this thread.
 
I've used them in the past. For a little pinhole leak I've used the adhesive side of a waterproof band-aid.
 
I've used Aqua Seal mixed with "Cotol" (that makes it harden in just a few minutes) for decades. But the very best, most magical "adhesive", is, by far, "5200 from 3M" . The fast cure version takes 24 hours to cure, but this stuff is incredible. "4200" is available and less "permanent", but if you really want to "glue" or "seal" anything 5200 (IMHO) can not be beat.
 
I used 5200 to repair a seam in my float tube bladder, but only to keep me fishing while my new bladders were being shipped. A small tube of this stuff cost about $15 at West Marine. It comes in handy.
 

iveofione said:
"Pressure gauge, electric pump etc..ain't nobody got time for that." Bullshit. Take the time to do it right and it could save you a lot of embarrassment at some point. I rescued a guy this summer that "nobody got time for that." He had underinflated his boat and realizing it had headed back to shore but couldn't control the direction of his boat and ended up in thick weeds and couldn't move. Not enough flotation and too exhausted to move he was helpless. I just happened to be coming to shore a few minutes later (in a properly inflated boat) and was able to throw an anchor rope to him and drag him out. A simple easy to use gauge would have let him know that he had enough air to be on the water instead of in it.
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Ive - I wonder about this guy you rescued if he'd ever been in a float tube before? I mean, this sounds like a real rookie mistake.

I'm part of the camp that inflates my float tube and feels the inflation, (that 3/4" depression thing with thumb pressure - that drives those who mic tippet diameter nuts :)) but admit you have me intrigued. Now I want to know how close I've been to the 1.8 psi or whatever it's supposed to be. Going to get a pressure gauge.
 
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I fill my Cruzer Max with a Ryobi dual inflator using the pictured combination, the lower half on high volume (mattress) setting to get it most of the way there, then insert the adapter and top up on the high pressure (tire) setting.
 

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As for the foam seats, that was my biggest issue with this boat. The foam bottom didn't keep my ass out of the water and I'm a small guy so I couldn't sit back far enough to get any lumbar support. I bought the Outcast float tube replacement seat bladders but inserted them with the foam, not replacing the foam. Now I float out of the water and get a little more support on my lower back.
 
Buzzy said:
Ive - I wonder about this guy you rescued if he'd ever been in a float tube before? I mean, this sounds like a real rookie mistake.

I'm part of the camp that inflates my float tube and feels the inflation, (that 3/4" depression thing with thumb pressure - that drives those who mic tippet diameter nuts :)) but admit you have me intrigued. Now I want to know how close I've been to the 1.8 psi or whatever it's supposed to be. Going to get a pressure gauge.
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Pat, it is often the rookies that get into the most trouble. I am amused by the responses of guys that pooh poo my suggestion to error on the side of caution. Having used a float tube since the old days when the bladders were truck inner tubes I can pretty much guess right on what the pressure is in one of my boats. But still I check the pressure every time out, probably a habit picked up in the Air Force where a plane was always given a pre-flight by the pilot before every takeoff.

I'm not going to lose any sleep over you guys that ridicule me for being thorough, a lot of mistakes are made on the water each year and some result in death and if I can prevent or minimize just one of those events I will have done my job.

And yeah, I mic my tippet diameters too! :) But only because manufacturers have mislabeled tippet spools for years.
 
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