Kayak Trailer Rod Tubes?

[Koz]

For those of you putting rod tubes on your kayak trailers, which tubes are you using?

 

I’d like to add 1-2 tubes to my Malone Ecolight trailer, but the ones that Malone sells are $240 each. There has to be a good, cheaper option out there.

[Dye99]

Ive never used a Malone tube but that might not be a bad deal.

 

I went with 8 inch conduit, and a conduit locking kit for each.

They hold 6-8 rod and reels. 

Pro's are they are lockable, and durable.

Cons it isnt cheap to build them yourselves unless you already have the conduit.

https://imgur.com/uU1Fn5J

[casts_by_fly]

8-10” pvc is the usual solution. I still don’t like it and would rather have them in the cab but 10” pvc holds more rods than you can carry on the boat. 

[Koz]

The one Malone is selling on their website is actually the Flambeau that retails for about $100 without the mounting hardware.

[FryDog62]

I bought the PVC at Home Depot ($90 each?). Plus the end cap kit ($70 each?) off of Amazon. Put a vinyl wrap around it and called ‘er good 👍

[flyfisher]

just get a ski rack and use sleeves and reel covers and be done.  I ran that on my trailer for a long time before I went to primarily fly fishing and i couldn't get enough spread between the racks for 9' fly rods but they aorked great for conventional