looking for rod holder inventions

im looking for some rod holder inventions. I mostly fish for catfish on the Cape Fear River in North Carolina. im incredibly cheap and I don't really want to spend a bunch of money on expensive brand names. I don't go fishing to show off my boat. mostly looking for homemade / DIY stuff wood built, pvc combinations bent metal, something I could build in my garage. This could be a great resource for the Tin Boats page.

pvc triple tree mounted on my adjustable plastic rod holder.

river warrior said:

pvc triple tree mounted on my adjustable plastic rod holder.

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Genius! I love it. =D>

the tubes facing forward are for baiting or additional fishing. the metal holders facing backwards are designed for river fishing. All facing down river.

Test!

I don't do catfishing - but - this is my wife's Crappie Station on our boat.
The curved rod holders are made of 6" PVC pipe. They are available on e-bay.
I made these myself with a drill press, circular saw and small band saw.

and no, she does not fish all 8 at one time.... maybe 4 LOL.

Johnny,

I passed a couple that had a setup something like that on Lake Harney yesterday could that have been you? They had at least 8 rods in the back holders and another 6 upfront. The boat looked like floating porcupine.

LOL more like a SHRIMP TRAWLER !!

Nope, wasn't me. My motor is OOC until this weekend.
getting new lower seals in the mail today or tomorrow.

then hopefully, the weather will cool down for some serious crappie fishing.

I made a couple out of PVC when I was a crappie man...but was never happy with them... always worried it would break if I leaned on it too hard... This stuff works great for making canopies, railings and rod holders... The fittings are designed to be used with electrical conduit pipe.... super cheap.. easy to cut with a spin cutter.... All different sizes and angles... I bet with a little imagination a fella could create a fantastic rig..

https://www.ysbw.com/Canopy-Fittings-1-Inch-s/7.htm

for example a simple n shaped cross bar with a bunch of these mounted on it... they could be positioned anywhere you want and angled however you liked:

https://www.ysbw.com/Canopy-Fitting-1-Sliding-Elbow-p/2235.htm

I had this on my old rig. It's 2" steel pipe with 1 3/16" hole saws right through both sides on a 45 degree angle. Wit 2" floor flanges anchoring it to the corner braces of the hull. Solid as a rock if your worried about stability. I actually towed a couple boats with it back to shore. I'm a sprinkler fitter so I had the material in scrap at work so I couldn't price it out for you.

Night time Catfishing is great at our fishcamp. How about this invention. Snag a wireless doorbell kit from HD like this.

Make a rod holder that holds the little transmitter just away from the rod so when a fish hits it bends the rod a little and activates the door bell. Plug chime in inside in the A/C and relax and watch TV in comfort. When chime alerts you got a hit run outside and reel em' in. :mrgreen:

I know, it's cheatin'.

nowgrn 4 that is an awesome idea. sounds a little like carp fishing bite alarms. I already have a twitch reflex for the clip on bells. it would probably mess me up pretty bad if I started using a door bell not to mention my dog hates the door bell and sometimes he goes fishing with me. lol.

Adjustable rails for rod holders. I slide them forward when flathead fishing so I don't have to move to get to the rod. Slide them aft for full rear deck access or more room. I use them in the rear postion when lake fishing for blues too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6cbZIlywes

The Kayak community has tons of PVC rod holder ideas. Just do a search on Youtube for more than you can believe..... or....do an image search on Google for the same thing.

When building many different PVC items for my boats/kayaks, I always screw them together (not glue them) until I try them out. Inevitably, I have to make something shorter or longer and the screws allow me to easily adjust whatever the original plan was. I glue them together when they have been used a half dozen times and are found to be OK.

richg99

Good for crappie fishing.

A few of mine, top was a proto before gluing, replaced the cross w a T.

Nice

Sent from the dust in front of you!

My tiller steer boat has 3 factory pedestal seat mounts but I only use 2 so I removed the bottom rubber portion of one of the pedestals and screwed it to a piece of 1+1/2" pvc and then added 4 rod holders (only 3 in this pic.). When ever needed I just pop this into the unused seat base.