I am in California and the rules here are two poles only per a pesron. It says you can have up to three hooks per a line though. I am setting my boat up now for crappie fishing too but I have a little more boat to work with. I have a 19.5 bass boat that will sit two comfortable up front. We are making a rod holder that will just fasten in using two pins at the bottom to hold it in place. It will have enough room for eight holders so that when I get back to florida I can fish more rods but in the mean time we are only going to use the two rods per a person. I fish with my 9 year old son so we will have four rods with 3 jigs/minnows each. We are going to use two base to connect the rod holder in the front 0of the boat. I am going to get two bases made for the back also so that if we want to fish in the back of the boat together we can. It is similiar to the rod holder in the back of the boat that I seen in a picture of Jim Duckworths boat. Good Luck!!