Hey everyone, with my extra time at home cause of quarentine I’m looking to organize my rods and reels better. How do you all organize yours? Do you have a rack? Have you made your own rack? Do you keep reels on rods? Separate? I’d love to hear and see what y’all do!

During the 'off-season' (ice on the lakes) which is still going on here, I store my reels in a rolling drawer unit with a thin (1/2") thick layer of foam under.

 

Rods are stood up in a corner of the 'man cave'.

 

During season, the rods are just kept in their 'carry' position on the canoe.

1 hour ago, DisneyBlues said:

Hey everyone, with my extra time at home cause of quarentine I’m looking to organize my rods and reels better. How do you all organize yours? Do you have a rack? Have you made your own rack? Do you keep reels on rods? Separate? I’d love to hear and see what y’all do!

Hello and Welcome to Bass Resource ~

During the hard water season the reels come off the rods for maintenance and after a thorough cleaning, the rods are stored in their Stick Jackets and hung in my garage.

Open water season they get plenty of use (hopefully) and remain in the boats rod locker.

A-Jay

No racks, rods are kept in rod tubes.

Reels in their original box.

4 minutes ago, Raul said:

No racks, rods are kept in rod tubes.

Reels in their original box.

Obviously, you don't do much fishing.

 

(jk)

Depends on what you have I guess but I made a rod rack. Had a sheet of 1/2" finish grade plywood behind my wood rack so that's what I used. I needed it to fit in a limited space so I made it to hold 10 rods (5 on each side) since that's all I need. It's about 36" high, 25" wide and 16" deep. Any of the rods I've retired are in rod tubes. My reels are in the original boxes but once fishing seasons in full swing I usually keep them on the rods.

I use the Savior rack. To me it was money well spent.

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/SAVIOR-Fishing-Rod-Rack-Floor-Stand-Garage-Pole-Holder-Home-Display-Organizer/173983950659?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&var=472771124916&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

I have two sets of these mounted on the ceiling of my porch where I keep all my fishing stuff. They work great, and I love having everything up on the ceiling and out of the way. 

 

https://www.amazon.com/RackEm-7009-Overhead-12-Rod-Fishing/dp/B00A16NQTU/ref=sr_1_32?dchild=1&keywords=fishing+rod+rack&qid=1585616082&refinements=p_85%3A2470955011&rnid=2470954011&rps=1&sr=8-32

I made a horizontal wall rack with some scrap wood, cut up dowel rods, and some semi-accurate drilling ...One day I'm going to make a new version that's actually 'nice' but this has been working so well that  the project keeps getting put off.  I keep the reels on the rods and usually they are all rigged up because I typically fish year round - Unless there's a deep freeze or a global pandemic .  Most of the time the rack only has a few rods on it with the rest + tackle being in the boat. 

 

 

I like the horizontal rack because I can get them off and put them back up really easily, plus reels and baits I have tied on are all at eye level instead down on the ground.  Makes it really convenient to sit at my tackle bench and rig stuff up.   Tackle is stacked under/around the bench.

Certainly not aspirational and Instagram-worthy like some of the above solutions, but improvised and marginally functional, like the builder.  Just takes some 1 1/2" pipe hangers, a 2"x3" and a way to hang to your ceiling.  It's better than the way the rest of them are stored, through trusses in the attic, etc.

I like the ceiling set up - convenient & out of the way, me though, I'm relatively short (5'7) and I'd have to bust out the step stool every time I wanted to fetch a rod.   Step stools and IPA's aren't friends.

I made a couple of these a few years ago, doesn’t hold a tremendous amount of gear but it’s enough for an avid bank fisherman like myself. 

 

 

 

 

Just made this to store my go to rods I take off the boat after every outing. For the other 30 rods or so I have when this one is full go into racks I build on the wall and ceiling. 

I made this rack this winter.  Openings for rods are lined with foam and the retaining strip is plastic from the top of a tupperware container.  A better craftsman than me could make one pretty enough to live inside and look good.  But this looks nice in a garage and keeps things tidy.  Room for 21 combos at least.

I'm impressed with you guys!  I just keep mine leaning in the corner of my garage.

Here is my fishing central with rods stored with reels...always and all covered. I built the light colored stand in the foreground and behind that is a rotating rack and behind that on the wall are spinning reels/rods. I also built the work bench and the stand the Planos are stacked on.  Lures on top, plastics on the bottom.  Reel boxes in the little white cupboard under the Redskins towel.  TV on the right

I hang my combos horizontally on L brackets screwed to the wall..not fancy or sophisticated but it's worked well for me for years

5 hours ago, Randy Price said:

I'm impressed with you guys!  I just keep mine leaning in the corner of my garage.

That's what I was thinking! Mine are bunched up in a corner of my bedroom closet with the 3 combos I regularly use in the front to minimize the untangling when I need them.

My Grandfather built this gun cabinet around 75 years ago. I inherited it and because I don’t have any guns, I added a few shelves and store my reels in it. The rod racks were purchased from BP or Cabela’s.

 

 

 

Why store rods and reels with lure tied on longer then over night?

You all realize the knot strength degrades radically after 24 hours.

Tom

7 minutes ago, WRB said:

Why store rods and reels with lure tied on longer then over night?

You all realize the knot strength degrades radically after 24 hours.

Tom

Well, I do this between canoe trips - which can be a week apart.

BUT

Night before a trip, charger gets plugged in and the lures I'll start the morning with replace the ones still on from the last trip - so 8-10 hours on the 'new' knots before casting.

 

More convenient to store them so I don't have to feed line again.

Leaving the line run through the guides is as simple as a slip knot placed over the rod butt. Keeping the line around the rod is a simple as spinning the rod.

No need to be lazy about tieing fresh knots onto lures.

Tom

@WRB, I'm not sure I understand your point.  I could either cut the lure I was fishing off, and tie a loop, then cut that off, then tie the new lure on the night before I go fishing.  Or I could leave the lure on, cut it off the night before, and tie on the new lure (or retie).  Either way, I've got a fresh knot, or in my case a lot of times, a fresh leader and couple of knots.

12 hours ago, Scott F said:

because I don’t have any guns

Folks from where I'm from would say you need a few guns.  I love that you have kept the cabinet in the family.  Your grandfather did a nice job on that one.

18 hours ago, gilkeybr said:

A better craftsman than me could make one pretty enough to live inside and look good.

I really like the finish you chose for that one, sort of reminds me of the color that they used for a lot of laminate gun stocks a few years back.  That looks good enough to go indoors in my book.

9 hours ago, WRB said:

Why store rods and reels with lure tied on longer then over night?

You all realize the knot strength degrades radically after 24 hours.

Tom

No I did not realize that.  I’ve never heard that one.  What is it that would cause this to happen?  Is this for all lines or certain types?