Pick-Up Truck Rod Rack?

[The Dad Fisherman]

Dave S.....Do those come lockable by any chance....that is a sweet rod rack

[ridler72]

I have a 2003 F-150 ext cab with 2 Thule Load Bars on top. I use the Thule Castaway for the rods and J's and pads for the yaks. The Castaway gets kinda crowded with more then 3 set ups and won't hold large spinning reels well. Conventional reels not a problem. I use Stradic 4000-5000 and just move the handle parralel to fit in it.

The Thule bar model # is 455. It says it fits up too 2001 but it fits on my 2003. 2 455's will fit on ext, super cabs from 97-03.

[lurch]

I attached a thule ski rack to the top of my tailgate and put the rods in there...ill take pix this afternoon.

[bart]

5/0 made me a rod rack for my truck (03 silverado extended cab) that works the same way as the one in daveS' pic. i'm sure if you did a search you could find the thread...

[luds]

Originally Posted by ridler72

I have a 2003 F-150 ext cab with 2 Thule Load Bars on top. I use the Thule Castaway for the rods and J's and pads for the yaks. The Castaway gets kinda crowded with more then 3 set ups and won't hold large spinning reels well. Conventional reels not a problem. I use Stradic 4000-5000 and just move the handle parralel to fit in it.

The Thule bar model # is 455. It says it fits up too 2001 but it fits on my 2003. 2 455's will fit on ext, super cabs from 97-03.

Thanks. This is really helpful. do you know the piece numbers for the other parts?

[lurch]

Here is what I use...sorry for the late reply.

As you can see I cut a hole in the rack , slid a strap through, wrapped the starp around the tail gate and it works great.

I think I had 8 rods in there at one time so it holds a good amount of stuff.

[afterhours]

BigFish built one for his truck- maybe he could post some pics.