Rod holders on tinnies
Well, time to replace my plastic rod holders with proper steel ones on my tinny before I do any serious trolling (hoping it'll get a work out in Jurien, Kalbarri and Exmouth this year. Macks, tuna and marlin is the plan ;) ). Only have the two small corner plates which will only fit one holder each.
For those who have done a bit of trolling with spreads in tinnies, how have you had the rod holders setup? Thinking of a few options:
1. Rod holders straight back. Easy for the rods (especially ones without pins). Could run another rod square to the boat off the gunwhale? Harder to put a centre holder in?
2. At an angle. 30-45 degrees, maybe less. Bit more spread, room for a centre line maybe (quite like having a long centre when trolling for tuna, mackies, etc). Rods dont sit as well though (not without repinning).
3. Put the back rod holders at 90 degrees. Still works well for gimballed rods. Much wider spread, heaps of room for one in the centre, but cant run another from the side of the boat.
Always good to get a few opinions from people before cutting more holes in my boat :p
Alan James
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Have you considered rodriggers
these will will provide you with another option again.
hlokk
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Think i might go almost
Think i might go almost straight back with a little bit of an angle, then use the rodriggers plus one centre holder and one off the the side of the boat. Should give lots of options and switch as needed.
Any place to get them? Had a look at whitworths and they didnt have much. The reelax ones are reelexpensive. Would be nice to be able to customise the angle though, but I would imagine I could do that by cutting a slot in them at the right angle? (i.e. so they dont end up perfectly 90 degrees to the boat).
Alan James
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Reelax are not cheap
All Boat Business have rodriggers priced around $80 that should suit. Not the same quality as Reelax but like all things you get what you pay for.
hlokk
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Cheers for that Alan. Will
Cheers for that Alan. Will drop by sometime this week. Obviously not the same finish, but hopefully they wont snap off (only going to run 15kg max line off them, so not 37kg like the reelax ones would probably be built for)
Hansie
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90deg
with the mahem that tends to erupt on my tinnie mixed with that ever-present Murphy mongrel, i have spread out the lines by placing holders straight out.
i don't run a third line but recognise you could. most of my rods have gimbal butts and hence sweet but even the odd spin setup goes in there no worries and no tangle issues which allows tighter turns back to the hot spot.
trolling for salmon with lighter gear they all run fine and seldom spin much past 70deg to the side. never been a problem.
however i have seen a rod go over the side (back) when hit while trolling with straight back holders. unlikely perhaps but if you're like me you foil Murphy as much as possible coz he gets his way all too often.
good luck either way. if you have some photos of your set up, post em! always good to see other ideas and setups.