"Gary" wrote in message
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I'm flattered, but it's nothing fancy.... Basic pine with half-lap
joinery.
I had to go with mounting it on the roof because I have a lot of fly rods
and, with sticks ranging from 9 thru 14 feet, standing 'em up isn't an
option

That works. I've even thought of the exact same scheme for my garage, which
is where all of my rods hang right now. I was thinking of hinging one end
because the ceiling is high and I'd need a ladder every time I went to grab
a rod or put one away. Right now they are just hung on peg board by a
passage door and I kind of like them there, but they're not as well secured
on the pegs as I'd like them to be. I'm thinking of a half-round scheme
that might either allow me two rows of rods (one inside the other), or an
alternating upright/upside down configuration so that I could get more rods
into the same space without reels interfering with each other. I keep
thinking about buying a couple or a few of those rubber rod holds you can
buy at Wal Mart and securing them to what I construct, so that the rods are
really gripped nicely.

My fly rods are both 8 footers so they're not much of a length problem, and
my ultra light is a single piece 4 1/2 footer so it's about the same size.
The rest are mostly 6 foot two piece rods that I always breakdown and store
within themselves (in the eyelets with a piece of velcro around the butt),
and there's one 10 foot noodle rod that breaks down, but is still long when
broken down.

Maybe soon(?) I'll get around to knocking something together. I've been
promising myself to do this forever, so I guess I should get around to it.
If so, I'll post a picture in the binaries group.

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-Mike-