Tube bait holders

[MT Net]

The boat will soon be home from storage and need to get it ready for the season. In the past, by the day's end, I usually end up with about a dozen lures lying in the corners where the front casting deck and walls meet. It's carpeted, so hooks get stuck and dull.

I'm thinking about mounting 5 or 6 short pvc tubes around my lean post (wedge base).
So, here are a few questions:
Has anyone tried this already?
Are the tubes permanently fixed to the lean post?
Is it easy to remove the lean post with the pvc attached?

Thanks.

[DUCKJ]

hey mn net,
i made one last year, you can learn from my stupidness(if thats a word). use the white tubing and not the black(how stupid could i have been). i made mine so that i could remove it when i needed to(just lift it up to get at the post button. my prob was i would keep the lures i used the most in there and when i went to change lures i would just throw the one i was using on the deck and take out another. when i was done fishing then i would put them back in the tubes(just lazy i guess).
what i did was get a piece of tube to closly match the size your seat post and glue(pcv glue) 3 inch tubes around that(as big as you want it)
works for me
duck

[AWH]

Duck,

Why is it so important to use white instead of black? I must be missing something simple here.

AWH

[AWH]

Just thinking here, hopefully you can follow my explanation. I was thinking that an easy thing to do would be to get a handful of tubes that you could put around the base of your pedestal and use some kind of strong elastic band to hold them all tight to the post. Perhaps a couple of bungees would do the trick. This way I would think that you could use any number of tubes that you wanted, whether it was 1, 2, 10 or whatever. As long as it didn't get to be too much and get in the way. Any reason this might not work?

Thanks for getting me thinking here, MT Net. I might have to try it this year!

AWH

[This message has been edited by AWH (edited 04-11-2003).]

[MT Net]

I stopped at Home Depot to see what they had. 3" PVC looked to be about the right size, except it was thick walled tubing, under $9 for 8'. I'll keep looking. I know I've seen thin walled rigid clear plastic tube in about a 3" diameter before. Don't remember where. Would be cool to see the baits. But don't wnat to overspend.

Hey DuckJ, I also am wondering why black isn't a good idea.

AWH, I was thinking about the bunji idea. It probably would work. But my experience with them from the boat cover, is that when stretched, the sun really makes them brittle. With bouncing in rough water, I wonder how it will hold. I know I would forget to replace them when too brittle, then BINGO! I'd get snapped. LOL

If I glued it, it would be permanent. I have the wedge seat base system.

Can't wait, haven't putzed with the boat since last fall.

[tulikow]

My dad is a plumber and he uses the black tubing. He says that it warps very badly in the sun.