If you fish from a pickup, you already know the frustration. Rods slide around the bed, tangle with each other, and bounce against metal sides every time you hit a dirt road. I have wasted too many mornings untangling a bird's nest of lines before I could even make a first cast. That is exactly […]

I've spent the last three months testing rod pods on venues ranging from soft silt margins at Linear Fisheries to concrete commercial banks, and I've lost count of how many times a solid pod saved a session when my banksticks just would not bite into the ground. If you're searching for the best rod pods […]

I lost two rods to Lake Norman the summer I bought my first dock. One was a ten-foot catfish rig that a channel cat dragged straight into the water while I was tying a lure. The other slipped off a pile-mounted holder during a sudden storm. That was the season I started taking dock rod […]

I've spent the last three months running my 24-foot center console offshore and inshore, switching between rods faster than most people change lures. During that test window, I rigged and abused eight different rocket launcher rod holders from brands like Scotty, YaeMarine, NovelBee, and Fishmaster. If you're hunting for the best rocket launcher rod holders […]