The Gigbob 2.0 just wanted to share.

The Gigbob 2.0

Great to see lots of innovation going on in personal watercraft for fishing.

I can see the appeal of oars for covering ground, but it's like when I tried a rental kayak, you can't paddle and hold the rod at the same time. I love the way you can fish and move at the same time in a tube.

I think the big deal is options now for us in tu es. But i agree hands free is the way to be.

Use your oars to get out there quick and use your fins to troll or move around.  That's what I did when I had a pontoon as well as a float tube.  The Gigbob has been around for a while. Interesting design to get a float tube and a pontoon in one package almost 10 years ago.

The higher seating position of a pontoon is a boon for fly fishing and maybe just fishing in general.  Easier casting and sighting is much better. I even raised my pontoon's seat another couple of inches on the frame to gain more of an advantage.  Even modern "sit on" tubes are better than the old "belly boats" in those respects.  

One bad thing though, you're more a sail when it gets windy. I guess that's the nice attribute of the Gigbob.  Pontoon the morning at Crowley, then around 11:30, come on in and break it down into a tube for the afternoon howlers.  Nice.  


P.S. OBob - need to rent a Hobie Kayak with pedal drive. Yeah, a little tough to manuever but you don't see any tubers or tooners out at the middle or long beach wall. Buddy just got rid of his Hobie... only because his kid is ready to hit the water with him, so he needed a boat.

some bait and wait, some troll
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P.P.S. litefoot - oars not really a problem - they are generally out of you way when you prop them back, up out of the water and use your fins to move around. With fins on, just manuever to keep fish in front of you. No big deal. Oars not as bad as you would think.

This is one of the things i liked best about the Gigbob coverting it for different uses.

Bob you have the Right attitude oars I think we put enough stuff on or Tubs to get hung up on