Quote Originally Posted by DHC View Post
You may have seen these pictures when I’ve posted them before, but I fish out of a 1556, so I’m kind of in the same position you are as far as length of the boat. You get used to it and figure out what works the best.

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I mounted my transport racks in the accessory rail, and I assume your Xpress has the same or similar rail. Just showing another option to keep rods up off of the floor and out of the way. I have spinning reels on my trolling rods and make it work, so if you go with baitcasters it ought to work even better. Hope this helps.
Man this is very similar to my situation for sure. The rod rack I’m getting is gonna be channel mount just like ur setup. Glad to see someone else out there making a duck boat work for crappie fishing haha.