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Location: Forest Lake, Mn. | I have an Alumacraft Tournament Pro 185 and what I did was to ask Dan at Dunwright Tackle to sell me some of his lure tubes that he uses to make his butt seat pedestal tube storage rack but not to have them glued together. When I got them I glued them together myself in the following pattern. The x's represent the tubes and the space between the xx and the x aren't glued together.
XX X XX
XX X XX
XX X XX
XX X XX
XX XX
The single colmun of 4 is shorter so the latch for the compartment lid will turn. Also by not glueing the colmuns between the xx and the x I can then pull the tubes out of the compartment and take everything out while leaving the lures still hanging in the tubes.That way if I have to take the boat in for service or leave it somewhere I'm not sure about gear theft, I can just pull the colmuns of tubes out of the boat. I don't have a digital camera so I can't take a picture to post. The only measureing I had to do was the height of the tube, they were a little to tall and had to be cut down about an inch if memory serves. Very easy assembily, clamp to tube together and add a bead of liquid glue between them. Forget what the glue was, but it's a clear liquid that looks like water. Dan at Dunwright Tackle can give you the deatails. A lot faster and easier than all the cutting, measureing, and assembily of the other methods. The glue sets up in seconds. So assembly should take about an hour or so.
I can get about 4 regular sized Phantom lures in a tube or about 5 of the six inch Phantoms, to give you an idea of the number of baits that you can put into this setup. Of course larger and smaller baits and baits with lips, or wings, or other attachments take up more tube space.
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