Thread: john boat setup

Good job. Simple is best. GET YOU SOME SHADE!

Originally Posted by blackfish

Good job. Simple is best. GET YOU SOME SHADE!

Yea im gona get me a sportbrella set up. Just got to buy me one first

Hey, Erin,

I just sold a War Eagle 1542 that I had set up for spider rigging. Had eight rod holders, two to each side and four in front. Also had a net holder and a Sportsbrella holder. I decked out the space between the low front deck and put lift up doors on it so I could use the space under the decking for storage. Here are some photos of the boat. PM me if you want additional information or want to talk. Your Duracraft is probably set up close to what my War Eagle was. Also had a lockable low profile rod holder on it that a good friend made for me to carry 8 14' trolling poles.

Nice setup, ski trip!

Thanks. It worked really well for me.

There are some aftermarket mounts for Duracraft that come in 1/2 or 3/8 thread size. Driftmaster and several other use these two sizes and you can also buy a 2, 3 or 4 rod holder T-Bar that will screw into the 1/2 size holder. Beauty of this is no holes to drill and you can position anwhere along either side and take off in seconds.

Here is the website, but this is a mom and pop business, so just call Jerry Hoover and order what you need if you decide to go with these.

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[QUOTE=ski trip;3026064]Hey, Erin,

I just sold a War Eagle 1542 that I had set up for spider rigging. Had eight rod holders, two to each side and four in front. Also had a net holder and a Sportsbrella holder. I decked out the space between the low front deck and put lift up doors on it so I could use the space under the decking for storage. Here are some photos of the boat. PM me if you want additional information or want to talk. Your Duracraft is probably set up close to what my War Eagle was. Also had a lockable low profile rod holder on it that a good friend made for me to carry 8 14' trolling poles.

Did you do the decking on this all in wood? I have this same boat and been thinking about pulling the live well since i hardly ever have anything to put in it anyway

Naw, Lawnmower man, the front low deck is the way the boat is made. As you can see, there is a really short deck at the front of the boat and then it drops down about 6 inches and goes back maybe 40 inches and then drops down to the floor of the boat (diamond plate) and goes back about two feet until you hit the middle seat which I had put in the boat at the factory. It is a full size (all the way across the boat) aerated live well. Behind that seat is the floor again about 48 inches back to the back seat. All I did was build a floor between the front low deck back to the front of the middle seat. I built it from treated 2x8 custom cut to fit and decked with 3/4 inch treated plywood. I put two center braces in it, about a foot apart and mounted another seat pedestal which I used, along with a pac stand I made, to hold the Sportsbrella. This whole set up worked really well for me. I just wanted a bigger boat to fish bigger water.