Anyone have a "car kit"?

[biggiesmalls]

Does anybody have a fishing kit that they keep in their car? Or perhaps a kit that you travel with, maybe you're going somewhere where there will be water and you might try and fish for whatever's biting.

I'm the new owner of a 2009 Camry that I've been working on (gift from my aunt), so now I gotta get to doing the fun work on this thing - cross bars for the kayak, big rod tube on the top, tackle storage organizer in the trunk, etc

Interested to hear what people carry around, I haven't seen much online.

Tight lines
Drew

[FatTuna]

Ski racks are an easy solution for transporting rods.

I keep a 9 foot St. Croix travel surf rod in my cab at all times.

I'm going to be installing a Decked system for my truck in a couple of months. Will keep a bunch of tackle in there at all times.

[David Hall]

When I fished fresh water I always had a rod and reel and gear in my truck.  I haven't done this in over 15 years, my salt water addiction got the best of me. 

[Three se7ens]

I have a 3 piece travel rod (Nomad Express Inshore), and I think Ill be adding another to my collection.  The Nomad rods are very well made, and have a good warranty.  Plus, multi-piece rods are quite convenient on a kayak.

http://www.tackledirect.com/search.html?query=okuma+nomad

[oc1]

Put rocket launchers on the front bumper with a rod and reel for every occasion. 
-steve

[Tiddlerbasher]

All of my more recent rods are travel rods - 3/4/5 piece. They will easily fit into a suitcase - A must, in this day and age, no airport in the UK/Europe will allow rods and even reels (with line) as cabin luggage - and forget about hooks, pliers, multi-tools etc. The additional cost of rod tubes (as hold luggage) is getting prohibitive. I have even been told by one airline "Golf bags are ok but rod tubes are too long - we don't allow them" They are a law unto themselves

Additionally all my tackle can fit into the car with no modification.

[Gfish]

My Forester came with those roof rack ready bars. Just got cheap metal pipe and plastic end-caps for a cross-bar set-up, secured with "U" bolts to the factory bars. Didn't wanna spend hundreds for a name brand one and miss the fun of hardware shopping and doin it my way. Rods go inna PVC sewer(black) pipe 'bout 5" dia., secured with big hose clamps, a glued cap on one end and a screw on/off cap at the other. Only real fancy parts are the Hobie nylon bar covers that the yak rides on. Haven't yet been able to come up with a lock for my rod holder(gotta $400 Loomis surf rod!). Tackle goes inna old, stained and beat-up backpack.
Gfish

[broadway]

A vintage Daiwa Mini-Mite travel set does the job for the small stuff and packs away in a case the size of a flute.
It's kept in the trunk and has room for some small tackle in the case as well as a spare spool.
Dom

[diamonddave]

 Gfish I use the same type of tube I drilled the cap where you would put the wrench to tighten or loosen cross ways and inserted sash chain then on each side of the tube I installed two quarter inch eyebolts and use two small padlocks to lock to the eye bolts.  Dave

[biggiesmalls]

My Forester came with those roof rack ready bars. Just got cheap metal pipe and plastic end-caps for a cross-bar set-up, secured with "U" bolts to the factory bars. Didn't wanna spend hundreds for a name brand one and miss the fun of hardware shopping and doin it my way. Rods go inna PVC sewer(black) pipe 'bout 5" dia., secured with big hose clamps, a glued cap on one end and a screw on/off cap at the other. Only real fancy parts are the Hobie nylon bar covers that the yak rides on. Haven't yet been able to come up with a lock for my rod holder(gotta $400 Loomis surf rod!). Tackle goes inna old, stained and beat-up backpack.
Gfish

Awesome idea, this is an idea I will need to try.
Not exactly sure how the screw-on cap is set up for you - but could you drill a hole diagonally, that goes through the screw-on cap and the main pipe? That way you could just line it up when you screw it on, and stick a padlock on there. Could do as many as you want, in theory.

Edit: looks like diamonddave had just about the same idea

[biggiesmalls]

I've been needing some 2, 3, or 4 piece rods for a while now. I've got a few 7' one piece rods for inshore fishing, they work fine but man it sucks loading them up. Although if I get a rod tube built for the car, one piece will be fine.
Have a Florida trip coming up in March of 2018, so I should probably have a travel rod or two by then.

Now it's time to do a shootout of rods and reels for this, gotta find something cheap, lightweight, and tough enough to stand up to fresh and saltwater.
I'll probably get a 7' 8-17 lb rod for the car, with a reel about the size of a Shimano 2500 (150-160 yards of 8 lb mono, give or take). I'll probably keep a spool of 8 lb copolymer and 20 lb braid. I have a feeling this will do fine to cover at least 80% of the fishing I'll do.

Then I gotta throw together a set of lures... Probably a box with half saltwater stuff and half inshore stuff.

[thorhammer]

You can find two piece to fit in your trunk all day at pawn shops.  The Camry used to also have a lay down backseat to access trunk check for that; two piece twelve footer will fit in there.

[biggiesmalls]

Man that would be awesome. I can put the middle seat down and get access to the trunk, so I can get an 11 or 12 footer in there without problems (broken down of course).

A two piece would be fine for the car, the main concern I have is traveling on a plane, but I could always build a PVC case that could fit a few two-piece rods and be used as a carry-on (probably). I don't want to go over a 3-piece rod just because it gets annoying past that point.

I really need to slim down my level of fishing gear. I went through and cleaned the garage, I filled several gallons of containers with lures, most of which I have never used. I had four tray boxes of bass lures that had never been used. I'm gonna sell almost all of it (I have a good memory of what I've used, what I haven't, what has worked, what hasn't, etc), and use the money to fund... more tackle. Hopefully this time, just the essentials though.

My goal is to have at least 6 setups to fish - and no more than 12. Bare minimum would be two medium spinners, one (ultra)light spinner, the 980, the 9/0, and one surf casting setup (for bait and shark duty). Potentially, I would turn the one ultralight into two or three - with one or two setups designed to be beaters that can be used around the docks for smaller stuff. The surf setup could turn into four setups, which would be a spread of one bait rod and up to three casted shark rods (so I can have baits in different locations) - although it will likely end up being two rods, one for baitfish and one for casted shark duty. Then I've been tossing around the idea of building a 4/0 wide rig, as a 2018 project - but it's low on the priority list.

Another thing I want to do with my bass fishing, inshore fishing, panfishing, etc - is thin out the artificials and terminal tackle I need to have on hand. I am going to try and pick three techniques that work the best and that I really enjoy fishing, and only fish those. I don't know what they will be yet, but I have some ideas.

Decisions, decisions.
Drew

[Gfish]

Gfish I use the same type of tube I drilled the cap where you would put the wrench to tighten or loosen cross ways and inserted sash chain then on each side of the tube I installed two quarter inch eyebolts and use two small padlocks to lock to the eye bolts.  Dave

Great idea and great name diamondave(you a gambler?).

Biggie, the screw-on cap actually screws into a special female part that glues onto the main pipe. Kinda like a screw-in plug.
Gfish

[biggiesmalls]

Great idea and great name diamondave(you a gambler?).

Biggie, the screw-on cap actually screws into a special female part that glues onto the main pipe. Kinda like a screw-in plug.
Gfish

Something kind of like this? (obviously without the tee):
https://flexpvc.com/pictures/ReducerBushing.png

Dave and Gfish, do you mind posting pictures of your tubes? I'm having a bit of a tough time envisioning how they're working. They sound like great ideas though!

Drew