Quackrstackr
Well-known member
I do a lot of spider rigging for crappie starting this time of the year and usually have someone that wants to go along. My boat came with a single pedestal mount in the front deck so I have just been using a couple of bag chairs on the deck for the last two years. :LOL2:
I decided this year that I was going to install 2 more pedestal mounts in the deck before someone flipped backwards out of the boat (hopefully not me). Once I layed it out, I discovered that the 2" holes required to installed the mounts were going to cut my deck bracing right in half. Since there is no way to weld the mounts to the bracing to stiffen everything back up, that scuttled that plan.
I then accidently stumbled across this setup. It is a lot more stable than I thought that it was going to be, even with 2 250 lb guys perched in the seats. There is a center collar for running a pedestal pole through to hold everything in place on the deck.
I would have preferred matching seats but I already had the low back and my wife picked up the high back version while on a business trip that just so happened to have a Bass Pro nearby. I'm not OCD enough to spend another $55 for the match. :lol:
This is a pretty good solution for any of you that may need such a setup.
I decided this year that I was going to install 2 more pedestal mounts in the deck before someone flipped backwards out of the boat (hopefully not me). Once I layed it out, I discovered that the 2" holes required to installed the mounts were going to cut my deck bracing right in half. Since there is no way to weld the mounts to the bracing to stiffen everything back up, that scuttled that plan.
I then accidently stumbled across this setup. It is a lot more stable than I thought that it was going to be, even with 2 250 lb guys perched in the seats. There is a center collar for running a pedestal pole through to hold everything in place on the deck.
I would have preferred matching seats but I already had the low back and my wife picked up the high back version while on a business trip that just so happened to have a Bass Pro nearby. I'm not OCD enough to spend another $55 for the match. :lol:
This is a pretty good solution for any of you that may need such a setup.