Fishing rod rack for inside.
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Fishing rod rack for inside.
I love to go fishing. As any of you fishermen know, it can be annoying and potentially gear damaging to pile fishing poles in the back of your 4Runner. I have been looking at roof mounted racks online. I am curious if any of you guys have one or made something that works good. Right now I have bungie cords hanging from the grab handles above the back doors. And I tried to mount a couple of hooks to the Rear panels but that doesn't seem to work too well. Any ideas or product reviews?
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Well in my 1st gen I stuff the back end of the rods between the roll bar and the top, holds them really well but that won't help you. That and I have to stuff the tips under the visors.
So....... what I've done in the past on "other" rigs was take a 2' long piece if 2x6 and drill holes in it to mount to the front bumper. Then I'd take a half dozen 12" long pieces of 2" PVC and mount them to that. Stick the rods butt down into the PVC and there you go. The rods stick up a ways but since I was running down the beach chasing sharks there wasn't an issue of overhead clearance.
So....... what I've done in the past on "other" rigs was take a 2' long piece if 2x6 and drill holes in it to mount to the front bumper. Then I'd take a half dozen 12" long pieces of 2" PVC and mount them to that. Stick the rods butt down into the PVC and there you go. The rods stick up a ways but since I was running down the beach chasing sharks there wasn't an issue of overhead clearance.
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On a better note you can build a rod carrier out of PVC for cheap that will strap to the top of your rig if you have a rack or rails.
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I put U bolts through one side of a hard rifle case and then bolt the hard case down to my Yakima rack. Trout rods fit in it fine, longer salmon rods require cunnting one end out (which I did).
I realize thats outside of the care but I thought I'd throw it out there...
I realize thats outside of the care but I thought I'd throw it out there...
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For my poles I used to have a gun rack that fit on the side window of the Bronco-
worked great!
It was plastic and might be called a gun or utility rack.
Doing something like limon32 has with a pvc pipe and caps would allow any size/diameter you choose. If you were worried about people getting into it drilling a hole straight through pipe and cap then running a lock through it would slow people down. Maybe a hitch lock?
edit:
DOH! Junkers called it, but I missed that part of his post. So, what Junkers said!
worked great!
It was plastic and might be called a gun or utility rack.
Doing something like limon32 has with a pvc pipe and caps would allow any size/diameter you choose. If you were worried about people getting into it drilling a hole straight through pipe and cap then running a lock through it would slow people down. Maybe a hitch lock?
edit:
DOH! Junkers called it, but I missed that part of his post. So, what Junkers said!
Last edited by habanero; 10-03-2009 at 05:26 AM.
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