# of rods

[Deitz Dittrich]

My rod storage is pretty darn big.. I try to keep less than 6 rods on the deck while fishing with friends.. however, when fishing alone, my boat can look like a porky pine!

[bemidjibasser]

I usually have anywhere from 10 to 20 in my boat at a given time. It depends on who is with and whether I am on a lake with muskies or not. If it's a bass only trip, I have 10-18 depending on the lake and time of year. If I'm on a bass/musky combo, I throw in a couple musky rigs to boot.

[RK]

Hiya -

Polar - I have an 18' tracker Tundra. The storage is pretty sick for an 18' boat. I have a centerline rod locker, plus two side lockers that can hold rods up to 9 feet long (nice for muskie trolling rods). I bet if I wanted to I could fit all my bass rods in one side locker - the things are huge.

The rod sleeves I use are from Gemini Sport Marketing. The have a velcro closure on the bottom that goes around the reel foot, and a velcro strap thingamajig on the tip, so they fit basically any length rod. Plus they're color coded so you can kind of keep track of what's what. They turned my life around as far as being able to keep my rod lockers form becoming a tangled mess.

Deitz - funny stuff about the porcupine. My boat resembles that remark some days...

Cheers,

Rob Kimm

[jalberg]

My boat has NO rod storage space (14ft uluminum). If I have a buddy along we limit it to 3 rods each. Any more than that and something is going to get broken. When I'm alone I don't feel I need more than 5 rods in the boat. Of course once I upgrade my boat I'll need way more rods!

1. Jignpig

2. Worm

3. Frog

4. Spinnerbait

5. Crankbait

[delmuts]

OK ! Who makes "rod slicks",and where can you buy them?

[Deitz Dittrich]

try a google search del

I'll email you.

[bassNspear]

Everyone laughed at me when we had the Waconia Get Together a few years back, becuase they were going to give a prize away for the least rods in the boat. I was fishing with my brother Central, and we only had 7 rods in the boat!

Everyone else had like 20!

[delmuts]

Found them ! Sorry for the bother. Thanks!

[Bassman55]

Stik jackets are another product almost identical to rod slicks.

[RussC]

I've got 2. Might add a 3rd this year. No one I know has a boat big enough to fish with 15+ rods.

[TonkaBass]

Can remember but they are out of bloomington, you can get them at gander. Cabelas doesn't carry them last I checked.

[ikeslayer]

i found they are cheaper to order off their HSOforum even with shipping if you are going to purchase any amount of them.

[st.crioxfishin]

Here's a little tid bit from a different fishing HSOforum that explains how rick clunn finished 5th last year at old hickory lake. take a look at the rods, reel, and line he used...\

5th: Rick Clunn

> Day 1: 5, 14-06

> Day 2: 5, 15-01

> Day 3: 5, 12-03

> Day 4: 5, 7-00

> Total = 19, 48-10

Missouri's Rick Clunn fished deeper than anybody else who made the Top 12 field. He went about things similar to the way he had at Kentucky Lake 2 weeks earlier, but everything was downsized a bit.

"I fished what I call micro-ledges because they're miniature in scale," he said. "They were 2 to 3 feet on top and dropped down to 8 to 12 feet.

"Most of the fish were sitting in 2 to 6 feet, and that's why I used the square-billed crankbait instead of the deep-diver (that he employed at Kentucky Lake)."

Also, he used a rattling crankbait here – something he rarely does nowadays.

"I usually like a rattling bait only for muddy water or heavy vegetation, but it seemed like the bigger ones wanted the rattles," he said. "I usually go with a silent bait because almost every other one the fish see has rattles."

He also caught a couple of weigh-in fish on a jig during the first 2 days.

> Cranking gear: 7' heavy-action Bass Pro Shops XPS Rick Clunn signature series rod, BPS XPS Rick Clunn signature series casting reel, 14-pound BPS XPS monofilament line, Lucky Craft RC 3.5 (green copper shad).

> Jig gear: Same rod, reel and line, 1/2-ounce Luck "E" Strike football-head jig (brown), Luck "E" Strike craw trailer (brown-pumpkin).

[TonkaBass]

ok, 14lb. test is more of a happy median than 17, that makes more sense to me.

[BassProAddict]

On tournaments, I fish with 6 rods:

3 spinning

Stickbaits on a 6'6" rod

Carolina on a 6'6" rod

Dropshot/shaky head on a 6'6" rod

3 casting

Texas rigged pitching on a 6'9" rod

Crankbait on a 6'9" rod

Topwater on a 6'6" rod

Leisure fishing cuts it down to 4

Texas, Carolina, Crankbait and Jerkbait.

[RiverBassGuy]

Normally 10-15

3 baitcasters

5 spinning

3 trolling