My first float plane was a "Ready on Floats" from a swap meet a few years ago, I put a OS 46 FX on it and had a ball, completely different experience flying off water. Since then I've had many "wet" planes, in my hangar is a Ultra stick 40 with Falcon floats, a World Mach trainer with Falcon floats, a World Combat 25 ZERO with a single GeeBee float and wing tip floats, a Seamaster single and twin (one fuse, two wings) and a beat up Mariner 40 (I may put the Mariner on floats just to be different).
Since I moved to Nevada 6 months ago I've had the chance to fly from snow and ice with my float planes, piece O cake.
FYI, Falcon has a kit to mount floats on any plane with trike gear.