01-28-2004, 08:03 AM
Hey Guys...
Ok, well, here it is. My pops just recently bought me a handy little cheap digital camera, so I figured I'd post up those pics I promised yo'll of the rod rack I've got on my tube. I've got a round donut style tube. Rod Rack 1 is a picture of the rack unattached from my tube leaning up against a wall. As you can see, at the bottom of the rack is the smaller section, and it has a bungee cord on the bottom of it. This lower section of the rack is what sits against my tube. The upper section of the rack is where the rods lay. This section sits at about a 45 degree angle. It might seem like a pretty steep angle, but believe me, that's what you need in order to keep your reels out of the water. My first rod rack, I thought a 45 degree angle would be a bit much, so I made it less than that, and my reels were almost always getting dunked. Rod Rack 2 is a pic of the rack attached to the side of my tube with no rods on it yet. Rod Rack 3 is another angle of the rack attached to my tube, but now I've got some rods on there. In this picture, you can see where I've taken a couple of 18" heavy-duty waterproof velcro straps (circled in yellow) and used those to secure the top portion of the rack. You just attach the straps to some d-rings on your tube first, then wrap it around the pipe and then velcro it in place. You then take the bungee cord and bring each clip underneath of the tube and back up through the bottom to clip onto some d-rings...in my case they are the same d-rings in which I have the velcro straps. It's up to you to figure out how you are going to get the rods to stay in place. LoL. I know these aren't the best pictures, I can take some better ones if requested...and I know it was a pretty rough description of it all and might not much sense, but I think you all get the basic idea of my rod rack now. If anyone has got questions about anything, I'll be more than willing to share...
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Ok, well, here it is. My pops just recently bought me a handy little cheap digital camera, so I figured I'd post up those pics I promised yo'll of the rod rack I've got on my tube. I've got a round donut style tube. Rod Rack 1 is a picture of the rack unattached from my tube leaning up against a wall. As you can see, at the bottom of the rack is the smaller section, and it has a bungee cord on the bottom of it. This lower section of the rack is what sits against my tube. The upper section of the rack is where the rods lay. This section sits at about a 45 degree angle. It might seem like a pretty steep angle, but believe me, that's what you need in order to keep your reels out of the water. My first rod rack, I thought a 45 degree angle would be a bit much, so I made it less than that, and my reels were almost always getting dunked. Rod Rack 2 is a pic of the rack attached to the side of my tube with no rods on it yet. Rod Rack 3 is another angle of the rack attached to my tube, but now I've got some rods on there. In this picture, you can see where I've taken a couple of 18" heavy-duty waterproof velcro straps (circled in yellow) and used those to secure the top portion of the rack. You just attach the straps to some d-rings on your tube first, then wrap it around the pipe and then velcro it in place. You then take the bungee cord and bring each clip underneath of the tube and back up through the bottom to clip onto some d-rings...in my case they are the same d-rings in which I have the velcro straps. It's up to you to figure out how you are going to get the rods to stay in place. LoL. I know these aren't the best pictures, I can take some better ones if requested...and I know it was a pretty rough description of it all and might not much sense, but I think you all get the basic idea of my rod rack now. If anyone has got questions about anything, I'll be more than willing to share...
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