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I use light inshore spinning gear, 7'-7'6" Med and Med Heavy rods with 2500-3000 spinners with the exception of sometimes throwing large wake baits and s-wavers which are to heavy for my light gear. I throw things like paddle tails, jerk baits, buck tails, top water baits and what has become one of my most productive baits which is the zMan Razor Shadz. That finesse baits just get hammered twitching it off the bottom.

Thanks for the welcome. I’m curious as to your current solution, I’m envisioning a wading belt with a converted rod holder or something. I searched high and low for a similar pack design that went form upper left down to lower right and couldn’t find anything with that design being made. Converting what I had on had on hand which was the old canvas pack accepted the design idea very well. I had a similar issue trying to find a rod holder/caddy that was vertical as opposed to everything I found being made which was horizontal and would set on the ground. Which I’m sure is fine for most but the marsh area I fish it floods over the banks often at high tides and sometimes I’m standing in 4-6 inches of water. Once again, I set out to build what I want but this time from scratch adding all the features I wanted in such a device. Took a while to get it done in my spare time while always trying to fish too. But from concept drawing to completion, I got it done and I really like the way it turned out. Concept: Easy to carry with one hand and hold 4 rods Plunge into the earth, hold, and not tip over in the mud Prevent rod tips from bouncing together or touching Be able to hang my pack to access it Break down to fit in my trunk

@Little_Flatty I know this is a pretty old thread but found your topic very interesting. I do a lot of plugging in the US for Striped Bass in a marsh area. It's muddy and requires boot foot waders just to access. The tidal water can make landing fish very difficult to nearly impossible without a net, especially when the water level is low on an outgoing tide. I too struggled with carrying a long net around, having to lay it down at each spot I stopped at. The having to work my way to the net and reach for it once I had the fish under control to retrieve it from below the bank I was standing on. Sometimes that can be a couple feet and sometimes that could be 4-5 feet. I came upon a neighborhood app that people buy and sell as well as give things away. A fellow was giving away a Lacrosse back pack. It had a pre-rigged diagonal location that a lacrosse stick would slide into for carrying. This got me thinking and so I picked it up. The only problem I found was that the net would slide all the way in down to the hoop. The handle of the net is normally 4 feet long. I added a 18" screw in section to lengthen it. In order to keep it sticking up I added a sections of plastic sink drain pipe together and at its end put a large washer in the end of it's threaded screw which acts as a stopper. At the other top end I added fittings together to create a large opening. This aided in putting it back in easily with just my my left hand over my left shoulder. I can hook a fish, tire it out and when ready slide the net out with my left hand while holding my rod with my right and net it. This worked so well for me that I made a second back pack that was smaller that the one I started with. Since I have a net that I can screw in a extension handle to the existing handle I sometime add a telescoping handle when fishing locations that the water surface is even lower from the bank that a near 6 foot handle will not reach. I originally tried finding another Lacrosse back pack that was smaller but none of them had a diagonal stick path through it. They were all vertical models, even from the same manufacture. I guess the one I got was fairly old and they'd moved on from the design. Since I'm right handed and cast over my right shoulder I've never had this interfere with my casting or hook sets either. I find myself often having to fabricate things I want that do not seem to exist for my preferences when it come to fishing accessories. I'm glad you were able to find and make something that worked for you eventually. Here's a picture of the first one I made and a couple of pictures of the second. The second was a black laptop backpack that had a large cavity that I ran the tube through and use for storing gloves and other stuff I don't use a lot but want to have if necessary. Cheers