These are some pictures of the rod holders I built for my Ranger. I looked at alot of the designs out there and most of them didn't move. The crappiekiller had one that was pretty neat so I built mine alot like them. Beings that its in a bass boat I needed it to be not only removable but articulated...so I took some flat metal and welded on both sides of the square tubing...this allows movement at the bottom...to move holders closer or further away from you...and at top...so when you change the angle at the bottom by moving the holders away or closer you can level the top back off. Also on top I welded a nut into a piece of round tubing that allows the top 360 degrees of motion...then on the top peice, which is angle iron, each rod holder itself can move a full 360 degrees. They attach to the deck via a floor flange. The only way I could articulate the rod holder was to use round and square tubing...round being used on top for angle iron movement and on bottom to allow it to screw into the floor flange...the square tubing being used to allow movement. I am going to put some more of the pipe wrap on top..this keeps things from banging around...its make is kind of hard to see how they are built though. I have been using them a month or so now...and Agrihawg finally made me take pictures...so thanks to him I have pics to post. :D If you have any questions about them feel free to ask...Minus the rod holders themselves I had about 50 bucks in three of them. I ordered 12 rod holders off of ebay to mount on the angle iron. That was another 75....so around 125 or so I built 3 of these for my boat...and they are HANDY....ecspecially when moving around you can pull the whole rig to you and those rods tips go high so you can ease to the next brush pile..and they are easily removable, which is a must in a bass boat.
I'm still piddling with the stuff in the boat...but it seems to work pretty well and I don't have to move around so much...lol.