Catfish anglers are notorious for carrying lots of catfish rods on their boats. They want to keep them readily accessible, keep their catfish rigs from getting tangled, and most importantly keep their rods and reels in good condition.
The challenge of fishing from a boat is also making the best use of the space and keeping everything open and clear so you can move around freely when the takedown happens and you get a big catfish on the line.
I’ve always used upright fishing rod storage holders on my boats. I recently swapped boats and started fishing from a SeaArk ProCat 240 and wasn’t sure exactly where I wanted the upright rod storage so I wanted a temporary solution for storage and that temporary solution ended up becoming the long term storage solution and best option I’ve ever used.
In this weeks catfishing quick tip video from Catfish Edge I’ll walk you through the DIY Vertical Fishing Rod Rack, how I built it and some tips for building your own fishing rod holder for your catfish boat.
For more in depth information go to to the Catfish Edge website:
http://www.catfishedge.com/vertical-fishing-rod-rack/
This upright rod storage solution can be built based on the number of fishing rods you’ll need to carry on your boat. I’ve built the holder to store twelve fishing rods but it can easily be adjusted to hold six or eight catfish rods.
The base of the rod storage rack is a Swivel-Eze seat post that screws into the seat bases on a boat so the rod storage rack can be moved to different areas of the boat for storage.
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Timestamps:
00:30 Seat post mounted fishing rod holder for boats
02:00 The rod holders I used for the rod rack
03:30 How I built the rod storage rack
06;10 How much I spent to build the rod rack
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can you ride down the road with rods stored like that or will it be to tall?
Great idea Chad. Are those floats on the rods the Comal Slip Stick Floats you have in your catfish gear list? Thanks for all the great info you share on your channel.
Here's how I built my fishing rod storage rack on my SeaArk ProCat 240, the DIY fishing rod rack for catfish boats, a simple and portable solution. For more details visit http://www.catfishedge.com/vertical-fishing-rod-rack/
