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Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: Sea Nymph on February 01, 2008, 06:57:06 PM

Title: portable rod holders
Post by: Sea Nymph on February 01, 2008, 06:57:06 PM

Does anyone know where you can buy some good quality portable rod holders? I have an aluminum boat and I don't want to drill any holes in it as I don't have any rails in it.

Title: Re: portable rod holders
Post by: firstlight on February 01, 2008, 10:40:04 PM

I havent seen any portable rod holders that i would want to use.

Why not mount some proper mounts on the side of the boat?

Title: Re: portable rod holders
Post by: BigCoho on February 01, 2008, 11:07:23 PM

get yourself a piece of pressure treated 4x6 and chop yourself a 6" block off of it, then cut it at a 45 lengthwise and drill some recessed bolt holes in the blocks. Bolt them to the rails of your boat and you can mount scotty rod holders perfectly. Thats what I did to mine anyways, works great

Title: Re: portable rod holders
Post by: umpo4 on April 07, 2008, 12:11:27 PM

make youir own.........ABS pipe and angle iron w/ hose clamps

Title: Re: portable rod holders
Post by: Sam Salmon on April 07, 2008, 03:57:02 PM

Cabelas has some in their catalogue (probably the same as mentioned by firstlight) but they'll end up scraping the sh*t out of you boat unless you use plywood backing and even then the plywood will rot in no time-how do this look to you?

(http://images.cabelas.com/is/image/cabelas/s7_012180_imageset_01?$main-Large$)

If in the end you have to drill holes be prepared to use something like starboard as backing.

Title: Re: portable rod holders
Post by: Sea Nymph on April 08, 2008, 01:13:12 PM

Just want to thank you all for your help and advice.