New Article: Float Plus 1 C Float Tube Review - A tube for the bigger fellas

[Josh]

I'm 6'5", built like an offensive lineman turned Dad, and I'm hard on gear. Not because I'm careless; I just take up a lot of space, put a lot of load on whatever is holding me up, and I'm out chasing big mama bass enough days a year that anything I sit in gets used like a rental car when a college kid paid for the optional “insurance’.
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Over the last few seasons I've gone through multiple "top of the line" float tubes. I don’t mean that they wore out, I mean that I straight-up killed them. Seams giving up, bladders fatiguing, fabric pilling and chafing through, valves leaking. If there was a part that could fail, I’ll find it. And as a big guy, I also hated the feeling of a tube compressing in on a guy my size and sinking into the water. Even-high end tubes just don’t seem to be designed with me in mind...

Tired of killing float tubes every few years because they aren't built for your size and fishing style? Looking for something that trades a bit of portability for a higher weight capacity and the strength to handle getting beat up on dozens of missions a year? So was our resident Jolly Bass Giant, @Billy. The Float Plus 1 C float tube out of the Netherlands promises to the right platform for big guys who fish hard.

Read on to see if it lives up to the hype...

Article 'The Float Plus 1 C Review: When You're Done Killing Float Tubes'

I'm 6'5", built like an offensive lineman turned Dad, and I'm hard on gear. Not because I'm careless; I just take up a lot of space, put a lot of load on whatever is holding me up, and I'm out chasing big mama bass enough days a year that anything I sit in gets used like a rental car when a...

• Billy
• Yesterday at 11:19 AM
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• Comments: 4
• Category: Gear Reviews