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Hey guys just picked up this beautiful v20 acutally from a member of this site. Looking to get a pair of rod mounts for the gunnals doesn't seem to be much room. Anyome have a certain one they use?

Welcome aboard. Most any type will do.

Welcome to the site - you'll be glad you joined. Lots of experience represented here - these guys have helped me through some difficult repairs and are just ornery enough to be a lot of fun.

I use Scottys - very strong plastic, bracket/receptical mounts on inside vertical surface of gunnel and holder inserts and locks in. Adjustable horizontally & vertically, comes out for storage. They are fully adequate for Salmon & Sturgeon in the northwest. I can't recall if I had to put backing behind the fiberglass, but would be a good idea to screw through into a piece of rot resistant wood or Starboard. If you're not familiar with fiberglass, be sure to drill out the holes big enough so you don't cause cracks.

Thanks for the fast response guys! I'll take a look again on my options! So any of you guys gonout the barneget light? Looking to do some ridge trips in the V!

Welcome. If that's the boat I think it is she's a beauty. I saw it in MI last summer.

Another view

That's the one.

She is at the canvas shop now getting a black enclosure. Thinking about installing A fish on sports arch also. Anyone here use one?

From one newb to another, welcome!

Another NJ member? Cool. There are lots of us here. I usually go out via Sandy Hook and troll the Tin Can grounds or the Shrewsbury Rocks, but have been known to trailer to Forked River to go out via the Barnaget inlet. There are several here from that area also.

Welcome and best of good luck with the V.

Agree that most any rod holders should work - keep in mind, if the cross bar at bottom of holder isn't a good angle for the rods to set into, you can drill new cross bar holes and create a new cross bar with stainless screw and nut.

Hey thanks for all the support guys!! I'll snap some more pics of her when I get it back from canvas. Looking forward to this striper season Running up the coast with some bunker spoons! Anyone here drag wire?

Welcome and congrats on the V.:clap:

Fish on Sports is the arch that I went with and happy with it. Debated for a long time but fold down mounts as standard equip. and free shipping won out. They also have lot of accessories you can add later if you like.
My V is a 78 i/o.

Hey any pics of that?

Yup, sure do - the umbrellas and spoons, mostly from Shark River - Belmar up to Sandy Hook and Raritan.

Stay in touch.

Naaa... Got tired of wire. I use Invader electric downriggers now. I can see the 10# weight on my fish finder and between that and the line counter on the downrigger I know exactly how deep my umbrellas are. Much more accurate. Plus if I'm just using lures or spoons I can stack them on the downrigger wire with clips at different depths so I can fish 2 or 3 rods off each downrigger.


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Destroyer I get where your coming from. Down riggers are great for placing the bait where u need to. Tony maja makes a great rig to run spoons with down riggers. Most wire line like Monel has a permanent sink rate so I know the depth with ease

I really think most of this board is us NJ guys! lol

Welcome! Good luck with the new boat!

Nj everywhere! I'm hoping to see u guys out there this season!! We should get trips together and do some inshore together!

I fish wire as well. My time fishing has been pretty limited since I lost my boat in Sandy, but this year I should be back on track. I'll be back in AHMM for the summer and should be ready for my first spring run since 2011. Looking foreword to some more pics of your new ride.

Striper80 i know where your coming from I myself got flooded and finally getting back on track with everything. Hope all is well with you and your family hope to see u out there bending rods

True, but only to a point. Depth is dependent on your forward speed as well as the resistance of your lure to the water. So if you're trolling umbrellas your sink rate is going to be much different than if you're trolling a single spoon or a lure.

(Yes, the same can be said of downriggers, but to a much lesser extent.)

If you troll @ say 1 mph and you have out 150' of wire, you will be @ X depth. If you increase your speed to 2 mph your lure will be @ Y depth. You have no idea what that depth really is because things like current and wind can easily change your speed without you even noticing. Since you cannot see your lures or your umbrellas on your fishfinder (because they are so far back) you're just guessing at how deep they actually are. With downriggers, they are not as subject to the ballooning of the line like wire is. I can see the downrigger weights on my fishfinder so it's easy to accurately adjust my depth if I see a school of fish at 10 feet or 50 feet.
And, as a further inducement to using downriggers, unlike wire, I never have to worry about putting a kink in my wire that all but eliminates it's strength.

Please don't misunderstand me. To each his own. If you like wire then by all means use it. All I'm saying is that, for me, downriggers are the way to go. :beer:

All I know is we catch a crap load of fish this way. Never had a problem with finding depth....

I mostly troll the wire at 2.8 mph because that's the speed I catch most fish.

300' of wire out runs 50-60 feet down.

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I use to do wire, yes on a day other wise fish less wire will work! but what a pia!! I said use to, but what ever i know a bunch of guys here that still use it

if any of y'all need any down riggers, I've got four of them for sale