How to Make a Fly Rod Rack

Having a proper rack to store your fishing rods is essential for any fisherman with a sizable collection. In addition to keeping your house better organized, by storing your rods in racks, you help prevent accidental damage from happening to them, and prevent lines from becoming entangled, which creates a hassle when the time comes to untie your lines.

Things You'll Need

  • Wood plank, six feet by six inches by one inch
  • Saw
  • Six feet PVC piping, two-inch diameter
  • Drill
  • Screws
  • Screwdriver
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Instructions

    • 1

      Cut two pieces of plank that are eight inches wide, leaving you with two eight-by-six planks, which will be the feet of your rack, and a 60-inch long piece of plank, which will be your rack.

    • 2

      Cut nine pieces of PVC piping, eight inches long each.

    • 3

      Drill a pair of holes, vertically aligned, into each piece of piping, with one hole two inches from one end of the pipe, and the other four inches from the end of the pipe. The holes should be large enough for the fastening portion of screws to fit through, but not the heads of the screws.

    • 4

      Drill a second pair of holes into each piece of piping that are wide enough for your screwdriver to fit through. These larger holes should be directly through the pipe from the holes made in Step 3, so a screwdriver can be slid through them and used to secure screws through the holes made in Step 3.

    • 5

      Screw a piece of piping to the plank 10 inches from one end of the plank, and repeat four more times on the same side of the plank, with 10 inches between each pipe.

    • 6

      Screw the four remaining pieces of piping to the other side of the plank, starting 15 inches in from one end. All nine pieces of piping should be extending above the plank in the same direction, and the pipes screwed on in Step 6 will each sit centered between two pipes from Step 5 if looked at from the front.

    • 7

      Screw one of the eight-inch-wide blocks to each end of the longer plank, to add stabilizing feet to your rack. Attach each block perpendicularly to the long plank, with the long plank attached to the center of the block. From above, the wood in your rack would look like a very wide H.

    • 8

      Place one rod into each piece of piping to neatly store your fly fishing rods.