Jeep fishing - phase one

So this ain't much but this is my "phase one" for outfitting the YJ for fishing. I had bought one of the 4 pole surf rod holders for the Jeep. Did not like where it sat when I mocked it up for drilling the bumper. Lucky for me I had a bolt on receiver hitch for a rear bumper sitting in the garage. So I drilled a couple holes and mounted it. Then I used some scrap metal I had to weld up a receiver mount for the surf rod holder.


I have an old Century flux core wire feed welder so this is what I can do.


Not too bad looking mounted.


And a close up. Two Penn Sargus SG4000's (china), a Penn Live Liner 5000 (USA) and a Penn Senator II w/AccuFrame (USA) all on Redbone rods. I spent a few bucks on those...


I am also testing out a Igloo 42 quart "3 day" marine cooler.  I loaded it up with 20lbs of ice and 24 Miller Lites.  At about 6 hours it is half ice and half water.  Don't have any high hopes for this being an actual 3 day cooler.  Bummer...



On the positive side I am making sure the beer does not go to waste.