I used mine to help get bait out 100 yds. My friend stood on shore and loaded my home built 500ml pop-bottle spod from the pail then I in my waders waded out as far as I could then cast, (12' surf rod and Shimmy 6500 sea reel), wade back until I could present the spod for another loading, etc. If the waves were up couldn't be done, but normally 4 gal or so of bait took about 15 min to put out. I had chest waders fill up on me once in the 70's when retrieving ducks in an old gravel pit and it's scary. I had to wait while my friend found a dead tree the right size to reach out to me and help haul me in. I drove the Gipsy back in the dark naked, wrapped in a Hudson Bay blanket hoping I wouldn't get pulled over.