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Location: Green Bay | I've been leery about puttin holes in the boat, unfornately for me, I bought a boat without safety rails and gunnels without room for track mounts, so i need side mount systems. so I've concluded i need to drill............eek.........holes...ack..... into the side.......errk........ of my.....gasp.
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but in reality the resale will improve if i have rod holder on the boat when i upgrade., again there is a converation with the wife..........so I ask myself; how many is too many rod holders, any one use side mounts? likes? dislike? avoid? must have?
I'm not doing plastics on the sides, off the back down the chute on top... maybe. I plann to run dipsies in the summer for kings once in a while, I'd hate to loose a rod, or worse yet a fish and a rod. I hate losing fish, i can always buy another rod....just need to justify the rod to the wife, but a lost fish, I just can't justify. that...... |
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| I had 8 Fish-on side mount holders mounted directly into the fiberglass of my boat when I bought it. The only drawback I encountered is I had to put rod extentions on each one so the rod butt would clear various stuff they encountered. I had rail mounted on my last boat and if I had the choice, I would go with rail mounts.
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| I was the same way when I got My Pro-V. Decided to go with the "Ranger Type" rails from Cabela's. I run the Ram Rod 2000 - can run three per side easily, plus added extra bases so depending if I'm running boards/lead or flat lining I can spread things out. C-man |
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| What is the boat and model? That will help us determine the best route for you to take.
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Location: Green Bay | Shep - 2/3/2009 8:19 AM
What is the boat and model? That will help us determine the best route for you to take.
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| Does your boat have the Sportrac for accesories? If so, those work great for mounting rod holders such as the Folbe's for inline board trolling. Not sure how they hold up to pulling dipseys.
Another route would be rails on top of the gunnels. I think there is enough width to mount them, and if you can get to the underside, the type used by Tuffy are sturdy. They have two lengths that work fro forward and aft locations. A benefit to rails is you can reposition your mounts as needed easily. Not sure which company makes their rails, but they are better than the rails that screw in from the top with small sheet metal screws, IMO.
I have 8 Folbe rodholders in my boat. 6 on the rails, and two sidemounts in the front. It's not too bad to drill holes in your boat. After the first one, that is. Measure three times, relax, measure again, and then go for it! Good luck. |
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| What about a driftmaster holder? The T-bar type. Then you could screw the mount to your rear deck and not put holes in the hull. Just a thought |
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Location: Elgin, Illinois | First of all.... Stand in the boaty and look around.... Put a piece of electical tape on every spot you "think" you might want a rod holder... Then, start from there...
Personally, on a 19' Tracker WT, I have four on the splashwell four on each side behind the windshield and two in front of it. Can't use them all at once, but it is very handy to have choices and places to move rods when bringing in a fish.
Two tube types on the back near the downrigger plates... The rest are for RAM 2000 holders...
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Location: Green Bay | lots of good ideas!! I'll have to ponder what it is I can afford and what will work, then weigh the difference and choose. I'd love to have a trac system, but not this boat, or at least not yet.
my thought... the more the better, growing up we had 15 on the back of a 35' Viking, never could use them all, but it was nice to be able to move lines around when you needed to.
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| Your links aren't working. Would like to see what you did. |
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| I would put Ranger styles rails on your boats, aside from mounting anything you want they are nice for hanging drift socks onto and holding onto as well. Then you can mount Cisco rail mount rod holders onto them or anything else you want. If your King fishing the Cisco's are the way to go. |
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Location: Manitowoc, WI | Over the last 8 years I've owned 6 boats. I learned from experience how to rig them myself, as I'd rather have knowledge of how the wiring is run, where the power source is, and how the rod holders are set than have someone else do it, have something go wrong and then be faced with many hours of trying to find or figure out the mistakes. The idea of sitting in the boat and place tape where you plan to drill is an excellent idea. In my first bigger boat, a Lund Pro V 2025LE, I ended up with a couple extra sets of flush mounts for my Cabelas 360's, as I drilled first before I took a really good look at where I was placing things. My second boat, a Crestliner TS202, had rail mounts. They were, by far, the easiest to deal with, as there weren't any large holes from a hole saw into the gunnel. I highly recommend rail systems and I personally would go with the Folbe rod holders. I used them for the first time last week in Shep's boat and found them, at first, to be somewhat awkward. By the end of the day I had their mechanics down pat and was very impressed with their use. The one thing I can guarantee you is you will not find one rod holder that will do everything you want it to. There are pluses and minueses to every one of them. Good luck!! |
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| On my Mr Pike I picked up some rails from cabelas and mounted my rod rolders on them, worked awsome |
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| OOOO, When he mentioned Lake Michigan trolling for eyes, he really meant LAKE MICHIGAN trolling. With DOWNRIGGERS! That is one thing I have not done on Geen Bay. I've said I will, but just haven't gotten down to the doing it yet. I'm going to make my a promise to at least try it this fall. Up by Horseshoe. I bet that would be easier than Leadcore or 160 feet out on a Reef Runner! |
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Location: Green Bay | riggers are gonna be for salmon late summer, I've been runnin boards off the front which will also run dipseys, learning the bay has been a ton of fun, my heart was pounding in da waves dis mornin', den i got a fish and and was shaking like a drug addict...i'm so addicted.. i need help, right now the wind has layed down and i'm wishin i didn't hafta be at work early for a project, wifes about ready to kill me, i'm watchin the wind all the time and right now she's laid down , i should be trolling boards and harnesses....drat!! why'd i ever start this... i love it!!
first time is free...then you pay
lead core, cranks, harneeses, riggers, boards ...oh my!! Oh WEE -ooh! |
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| And then you'll catch a pig musky out there, and then you'll have to rig up for those! hehehe |
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