Jeff Ragland, a full-time fishing guide with Kingfisher Outfitters of Callaway Gardens, fights a bream that he hooked along a bank that isn't conducive to bank fishing. Jeff used a float tube to access the remote waters.

We've all been there. You find a quiet little isolated pond that you know holds the world-record bluegill, it's spring and you can see the light color of the bed way back in the corner of the lake, and there is absolutely no way to get there. From your vantage point the vegetation is thick on that end, and the cattails reach well out into the lake from the swampy shoreline. The pond is well off the road and there isn't anywhere to launch even a small boat. That is if you could get a boat to the lake in the first place. Frustrating, huh?

Well there is an answer that can turn this frustration into success; a float tube.

Float tubes are small personal watercraft which are light, maneuverable and relatively inexpensive. They are tailor made for applications just like the one described above.

We decided to do some investigation into float tubes and how they can be used effectively in remote small pond situations.

I recently had the opportunity to fish a private pond with Jeff Ragland of Columbus. Jeff is a full-time guide at Kingfisher Outfitters of Callaway Gardens, and he regularly uses float tubes for fishing ponds on and off that property... Read Full Article

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