Good for you! You'll get used to it, and things will only get warmer from here on out. I know some guys who have both pontoons and tubes. A couple absolutely love their tubes.....you'll rarely see them in their pontoons. I was at Amber also on Tuesday and things were quite slow due to the recent cold front. Stay at it and good luck....you'll understand when you begin having 20 and 30 fish days! Also, in an attempt to lessen your learning curve, I'd highly recommend that you get two rods/reels, one with a float line and one with a sink line (or float line w/sink tip). These lakes are deep around here and once the water warms up you're gonna need to go deep to get at the fish. My mentor never told me about the benefits of a sink line and it took me a couple years to figure it out!