Musky Rod Holders

[lew]

Yep, you gotta put tracks on that new boat fer sure! They're costly, but your wasting your $$ any other way!

 

Berts or trojan.

 

S.

 

Have to disagree with you on that one Shayne, I get alot of muskies trolling and it hardly cost me anything to rig my boat up the way I wanted it. Little bit of ingenuity and some elbow grease and your all set.

 

The custom track set-ups are nice, but definitely not required.

[Roy]

I don't use tracks. These are all I use and they work just fine for me.

 

 

[lew]

That's a nice setup Roy and funny thing is, I was putzing around on GOOGLE awile ago looking at Downeast setups and that picture came up along with the post you made about it on OFC back in 2009.

[Roy]

hahaha You can run but you can't hide. Uncle Buck made the bases for me....they're indestructible.

[lew]

hahaha You can run but you can't hide.

 

No safe havens in the modern world Roy LOL

[Rizzo]

So would those mounts just be screwed in (is that strong enough?) or would they be bolted through to the other side? And if bolted, what's on the other side (ie just some big washers or another big aluminum plate?)

[Roy]

Aluminum plates on both sides. Large washers would do fine though.

[Lunkerhunter]

i have trojan tackle rod holders and absolutely love them! dave does an awesome job and they are built like tanks.

[Lunkerhunter]

here are a couple pictures of the trojans i put on my boat.

 

dave put together 2 mounts that go on to my walker downrigger plates and he did one with a riser on the back deck for a prop wash rod.

 

the prop wash rod holder is not in the pics.

 

 

[Pigeontroller]

My Trojan Riser & Salty

 

 

 

 

Seat post & Scotty Powerlock plus Scotty extension

 

 

[Crazy Ivan]

I don't use tracks. These are all I use and they work just fine for me.

 

 

Nice set-up Roy. I run the same kind of mount as that and it works fine.

 

Also noticed the Brug. Nice.

[Sinker]

No, the tracks aren't "required", bbut they sure make things easy to remove for storage, transport, of if you want to take the kids tubing etc.

 

I don't think the alumacraft has rails either, but they do have some sort of system for mounting accessories.

 

S.

[trapshooter]

Track systems are awesome, I have Bert's on my boat with salty holders. Bullet proof.

 

[irishfield]

Here's the nice thing with tracks.. when it's time to slap the tight trailering cover on and go...

 

 

Or maybe you want to have "shore" lunch on the boat!

 

[Sinker]

Exactly! The only way to go if your installing rod holders on a boat IMO. Sooooo many options once the tracks are installed!

 

S.

[scugpg]

for smaller boats 14-16ft would the regular down easter rod clamp to most gunwales or would the salty be a better choice?

[Sinker]

They'll both clamp on no problem, but the salty's are the way to go. Buy them once and be done.

 

S.