Full circle and back to where it all started

[joeD]

The only thing I curl these days is my hair...

[Brian Jones]

On 8/30/2016 at 8:03 PM, Al Agnew said:

Brian, as you probably know, I carry five rods in my solos all the time.  The trick is shorter rods.  I have a totally separate set of rods for the canoe as the ones I use in the jetboat.  All my canoe rods are five and a half footers (except my topwater rod is a five footer).  However, the Pack is two feet or more shorter than any of my solos, so you may not be able to figure out how to carry as many as four rods in front of you.

I had all of my "floating" rods with me Al which are six footers and pretty much had them positioned all day they way that you see them in the pic.  One of the problems is that I am severely left handed and when I would make a "back handed" cast across my body to fish something on my right, I would often snag the rod that was situated over my right shoulder.  A couple of times I almost pulled it out of the boat.  There would have been room to lay it to the right of me; letting it rest on the seat and the back thwart.  But that is where I laid my three foot "steering paddle" and there wasn't enough room there for both.

[Al Agnew]

Just gotta experiment with placement...I know that I was able to carry four or five rods flat in the boat when I had the Pack, but don't remember how I did it. You never want the tips above the gunwales.

[RSBreth]

Moving the seat up helps some, but it does limit how you rigs the rods, and you have to use shorter ones so I left my seat stock so I can still use longer sticks and keep them inside and safe. You'll figure out what works for you the more you go.