I own a Old Town Predator MX ...Has anyone on here ever spider rigged up the front of your kayak to be able to fish 3 rods at once if so any suggestions on a rod holding system or setup ...Thanks for any and all help!!!
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I own a Old Town Predator MX ...Has anyone on here ever spider rigged up the front of your kayak to be able to fish 3 rods at once if so any suggestions on a rod holding system or setup ...Thanks for any and all help!!!
I have a Sun Dolphin Journey 10. It came with an Attwood rod holder base between they legs. I replaced the base with a Scotty, bought an extension, a 3 rod holder base and 3 rod holders for $75. Looks like this. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Scotty-23...Mount/25461773
I've got two rod holders in front of the cockpit and two behind on my Pungo 120. I drift jigs out the front and pull a single crankbait out the back pretty successfully. If I try to run more than that, they tangle too often. I never tried pushing weighted lines, which would probably cut down on tangles.
I can't use rods longer than 7 feet in that kayak because it is difficult to untangle line around the rod tip.
Jim
I have a set of HiTek rod holders on my boat and used to move them to my old kayak. I would spider rig 4 rods at a time. I still have some work to do to mount them on my new to me kayak. Here are a couple of pictures of the way I had them mounted on my Wilderness Systems Ride 135. CallShy on the AL forum makes these and I really like them. Attachment 294544Attachment 294545
Ditch Basser on the AL forum is a pro at spider rigging from a kayak. He actually runs 6 rods on his kayak and has 2 sets of 3 rod HiTek rod holders.
Here is the setup I use on my Ride 135. Made the dashboard using seaboard. Fish 6 13' rods. Attachment 295856Attachment 295857
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Nice spider rigging set up and the Ride 135 is a great kayak, the only reason I got rid of my Ride 135 was the weight and me having some back issues.
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I think I'm going to try this in my yak this year for a little closer to the water action than my big boat. Do you use a fish finder with this setup or just target key areas?
I use a fishfinder. I find it useful for seeing what depth I am in and for following contour lines. I am pretty new to this though.
Here's my setup. I use driftmasters on my big boat so wanted the same on my yak.
Yak is a Jackson Big Rig
1 crossbar with 4 driftmaster lil pro's mounted into track rails
helix 7 g2n that I'm going to share off the back of my big boat. (complete with saved waypoints!)
Just finished up this weekend so no water report yet.
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Nice setup!
Blackjeep do you have anymore pics or details on the support legs on your crossbar. really like that setup and wouldnt mind doing something similar on my hobie
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i used:
2- driftmaster V-Round Base Pro 202 B on the crossbar,
2- driftmaster Flat Rail Base Pro 201 B on the rails,
2- pcs of 1/2" all-thread 14" long each to bend for uprights. The electrical tape was just to help me keep reference on where to bend in vise.
2- packs of yakgear railblaza track mounting kit to mount the flat rail base to gear track.
All of this so I wouldn't have to drill any holes and so I can take it off and keep everything portable for hauling on top of jeep
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That looks killer. awesome awesome setup buddy
Looks good. Nice setup
Now that’s cool
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Originally Posted by Blackjeepjk
So just one thing I had left to do was to get portable power for the ff. I found this at academy for $34. Charged it up and seems to run fine at least in the garage. I'll give it a test when it warms up to see how long it will last.
Weighs about 3lbs but seems very portable and I like the included sealed battery box that is already wired up. I'll just tuck it away up in the front hatch
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Very nice setup you have.
So I finally got the yak out to water test.
Fished for about 3 hours on the water.
1) Fish finder is amassing. Works great. Battery still had 12.5v at end. Homerun
2) driftmaster rod holders and my setup works great. I on the other-hand am not skilled enough to man 4- 12'rods, watch fish finder, paddle, and land fish at the same time. More practice may be necessary.
3) I took a minnow bucket with me but could not find adequate room for it that was in close enough proximity to be useful or comfortable enough to manage. Jigs it is!
More to come as I get a chance to hone my skills.