Rod Saver in holder

[chuckauten]

When I was coming back to florida from IN, I stopped at Lake Talquin Lodge. Rusty and Don showed me a new way to keep your rod from slipping out of the holder, plus making it easier to remove from the holder.

I first put the rod in my wrapping maching with the reel seat up. At approximately 3/4 of an inch back I flatten a space for the stopper. Wrapped it on with masking tape and then filled the space with crazy glue.




I then allowed the glue to dry and then wrapped the area with heavy thread. Then I applied a glue water mixture, to protect the color of the thread. When dry, I then applied epoxy and allowed to turn while drying so that it would be uniform in thickness.



This picture shows the epoxy dry. You can also strengthen this with a 2-3 inch piece of shrink tubing.



This picture shows how I used to put the rod in the holder. Made it tough when hung up or large fish.




This is the way it now is in the holder. Easy to remove with an up lift motion.



This rod stop is out of the way when casting the rod.




This is not my idea, but improvements on what I was shown. My thanks to Rusty and Don. This is what C.C is about.

Chuck

[willk]

Great idea. Thanks for the post.

[speckfinder]

slick

[WhitePerchJerker]

Good idea, thanks

[slimeyslab]

Let us know how it works.

[DKR]

Nice.

[feelay]

We catch some pretty large fish here in the magnolia state and I've never had a rod come out of the holder. Is this a common problem? If so, Foam handles on your rods would help.

[Blackhawk19]

Great idea, looks like it should work great

[rango]

i never mount my rods tween the rod holder arms. i mount the rods in the holder with the reel in front of the holder. never had no problems with em mounted like that. If you mount a spinning reel with the reel mounted inbetweed the rod holder arms, its virtualy impossible to get it out if you got a big catfish or striper on the line.

[chuckauten]

I lost one while trolloing from the back. Hooked a stump or log. My angle was such that it pulled straight out. I felt that if I increased the angle up, my jig would come up as well. I now use about 15 degree's. I know that others a Talquin use a float attached to their rod just above the handle.

Just an little prevention and it was fun setting my rods up. Did 17.

Chuck