New Hi-teks

Pm sent Feelay... The wing nuts and bolts came off my duck blind. The best bolts and nuts are the free ones. You give me some knobs, i might try em WB

heheheeh, jtl wants my knobs. I get that a lot.

Wannabe...

You wanted to trade for Feelay's nuts...whats new :D

Too-shay dood, too-shay.

Wannabe...

Ya'll watch that jtl, he's got a mean rabbit punch.

I still don't understand what stops the rods from being pulled over the front of the rod holder and in to the wa-wa when you hang into a 10# catfish or drum when cranking from the side of the boat?

yikess...I was like you untill I got my hiteks. If you are pulling crankbaits straight out the back of the boat...you have your rod holders turned up a little. The rod cannot be pulled out with out a perfectly straight out of the rod holder pull .......with the holder turned up some and the fact that the crank is running deep and the line angle is pulling down that rod handle will just kinda lock up in the holder. I have stood out in my yard and pulled and yanked on the line and its not coming out. Pushing or trolling off the front you can turn the holders down because your lines are going straight down.

Yikes, I was worried about the same thing. Now, I haven't tried pulling cranks with the setup yet but this is what i think. The weight of the rod and force of the crank bait pulling on the rod makes the rod tip pull down/ to the side. In turn, it pressures the rod handle up which catches the holder. It can only roll so much with all the pressure, not letting it come out. If you had a catfish, the pressure would be greater, not letting the rod come loose. Now if the fish runs straight perpindicular to the boat/ rod holder...we might have a problem. Like i said im not sure, but this is what im thinking. After i try it..ill let yall know.

dang, g3 beat me to it. im a slow typer

Its a leverage thing.....Cranking from the side of the boat it locks in even tighter it seems like.

I have rod holders in my boat that came with it. Those you have on bay boats for trolling in the bays and such. I had mine last year at about a 45 degree angle while trolling around for speckeled trout or Redfish. SOMETHING hit it and took my 150 dollar bait caster and my 150 dollar rod down to Davie Jones locker. No idea what it was but I was trolling a mirrolure and the next thing I know my rod and reel are flying out the back. The holder I had mine is LOOKS like it'd hold a rod 10 times better than that