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Conference wahoo::fishing

Title:Fishing Notes- Archived
Notice:See note 555.1 for a keyword directory of this conference
Moderator:DONMAC::MACINTYRE
Created:Fri Feb 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Sep 20 1991
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1660
Total number of notes:20970

1326.0. "Rod Holders" by HYEND::WOOD () Tue Feb 13 1990 10:37

    I'm interested in putting a rocket launcher on my boat (a bar with
    rod holders that extends over the center of the boat). Does anyone
    know a place that sells these in MA ? My guess is that it may have to
    be custom made. What kind of place would do this ? I might try to
    do it myself, but I think bending the tubing will be near impossible
    without special tools. Especially if it ends up being stainless.
    
    Thanks,
    Marty 
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1326.1NE Boat Show 2/17-2/25DNEAST::OKERHOLM_PAUTue Feb 13 1990 12:432
    	Try the New England Boat Show. There is usually one or more
    exhibitors who deal in that stuff. 
1326.2Location???HYEND::WOODTue Feb 13 1990 12:541
    Is that in Boston ?
1326.3DNEAST::OKERHOLM_PAUTue Feb 13 1990 14:081
    	Yes, its in Boston at the Bayside Expo Center.
1326.4a dollor saved is a dollor earnedLUDWIG::KERSWELLSat Mar 03 1990 11:5815
    Buy yourself a tubebender, cant be much. NOTE;and some tube for practicing
    proferably, old tent poles or something will give you the idea,
    the reason why i'm saying this is that I'm putting together a few
    modifications of my own, and before i  start i need to pick up a
    pipe/tubing bender. the reason i say tent poles is i'm going to
    trash the tent and it leaves me with aluminum poles whick interconnect
    and are aluminum, rust free and light weight for my needs. Hope
    this gives you an idea, id rather do it myself, than pay someone
    else. cause thats the kind of guy i am,  i figure the work i do
    and the money i save, not only for myself but from doing work for
    others it makes me feel good, especialy, when i send out my BP orders
    and not worrying about justification, doing the work myself IS my
    justification for writing out the check. hope this helped, 
    
    				Ronni
1326.5bend stainless ???HYEND::WOODMon Mar 05 1990 13:5810
    Ronni,
    I would think it would be some pretty heavy duty equipment to
    bend stainless. Maybe I only need aluminum, but I would think
    that with people probably leaning on this thing, and the fact
    that I'll probably have planar boards attached to it in the
    spring I'd want the strength of stainless...or is this really
    overkill ?
    
    Marty
    
1326.6questionBTOVT::BATES_R_T��t�Fri Mar 09 1990 13:277
    
    Marty,
    
    	You heading over to the big O this spring? I'd like to head over
    	middle of April. You game??
    
    						-rene-
1326.7temptation...the Big OHYEND::WOODThu Mar 15 1990 17:5913
    Rene,
    I'd love to go, but I'm sitting in California on a trip right
    now, and I don't know if I'll have to come back in April...this
    vax 9000 project is kind of hot right now :-) If at all possible
    I'll go. I was thinking of heading more towards the Rochester area
    thisspring as I think the fishing might be evan better out there.
    Maybe Don Frasch can help us out here. Don, what spring time frame
    do things usually peak in the Rochester area ? Would it be very
    good in April, or would we better waiting until the middle of May ?
    Is there good launching and campin facilities in your area ? I can
    hardly wait ! Mr. Farnham, are you up for this if I can pull it off ???
    
    Marty
1326.8best price on RobertsRANGER::MACINTYRETerminal AnglerTue Sep 11 1990 14:0924
    A couple of weeks ago, before heading up to Moore resevoir I did some
    shopping around for rod holders for my boat to use while trolling.
    
    I decided on the molded plastic holders manufactured by Roberts.  They
    have an adapter that allows you to mount them on your rails.  They can
    hold baitcasters or spinning rods and can adjust to many postions. 
    They also have a ring that locks the rods into the holder.
    
    Anyway, the reason I'm entering this is that during lunch today I
    happened to browse thru an `89 Cabela's catalog and was suprozed to see
    the rod holder for sigificantly less money than it was thru Bass Pro
    Shops or Northern Bass Supply.  I called to find out if the 1990 price
    was the same and found out it was a buck LESS.
    
    	BPS: 	$19.92 	(prices are for holder + rail mount adapter)	
    	NBS: 	$21.78
    	Cabelas:$14.98 
    
    If your outfitting a boat with 4 of them then this is significant
    savings.  I plan on getting 4 but only sprung for 1 before the Moore
    trip (I got it thru NBS because I needed it asap).  I just ordered my
    2nd thru Cabelas and will definitely get 2 more in the future.
    
    donmac