What is a good car for holding fishing equipment and reaching fishing destinations?
admin | Mar 06, 2010 | 10 comments
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a good hover craft might be just what you need.
Get to know what you want and how you want it to hold up. thats some tough country trails.
a van or station wagon,
I guess they call them suv,s now
Look at it this way… if you have the SUV, you will have a one up on those of us with sedans. I have a sedan and I can’t get to certain fishing spots that I want to go to unless I borrow my friend’s truck. If and when I borrow the truck, I can get to the most out of the way fishing spots there are where no one else is fishing, I like it a lot. My next car will be an SUV just for that reason.
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I think a Jeep Cherokee is almost ideal.
With a straight 6 you get good gas mileage for those long trips and you can fold the back seat down to make a bed if you don’t want to spring for a hotel.
Decent ground clearance and four wheel drive make it well suited to getting to those “secret” fishing holes.
There’s also plenty of room for all your gear, girlfriend or buddies, and the dog.
It mostly depends on where you’re exactly fishing. I live in Ky and there a lot of “backwoods” places that I occasionally go to that only a 4 wheel drive can make it through. Then again there’s several places with pavement or gravel roads that a car can easily make it to. Do a bit more research as to what kind of terrain the majority of the places are that you will be fishing. But with that said you can never go wrong with a 4wd vehicle. There’s many situations you will run into where a 4wd vehicle will come in handy. Better safe than sorry I suppose. I drive an f150 4wd and love it, especially this time of year when it tends to snow and what not pretty commonly. I have a bed cover on my truck which is nice because you can leave all of your fishing equipment in the bed with the cover locked so nothing can be messed with or stolen and also keep everything dry when it decides to rain. I also have a small boat which I haul around quite a bit in the Summer and also a full sized boat to haul to the lake. In my opinion a 4wd vehicle (preferably a truck) is the way to go. In the future you may decide to get a boat and of course having a truck is a vital thing to have for that situation.
I drive a four-banger, four-door sedan. It gets great milage and when I’ve taken it fishing, gets treated like an offroad vehicle. The undercarriage scrapes rocks and whatnot and doesn’t seem to be bothered by it. I have enough trunk space to throw in a couple tackle boxes and whatever else I need to bring along, but the good thing I like about my car is the fact that the back seats fold down level and all I have to do it slide the rods forward in through the trunk and let the tips ride on the dashboard. For being a Daewoo, it’s not a bad ride.
Of course, like any other guy, I would really love to have a four-wheel-drive pick up. Preferably a Bronco. Mmm… an ‘eighty-four with a three-hundred cube Torque Monster straight-six and a four-speed… that’d be the ultimate.
I drive a Trailblazer so I can pull my boat and put my 7 foot rods in it that do not break down.. I have put in my 9 foot fly rods as well but have to tell you they are bent and fitted in at an angle.
If I was going to go look at a new car and the boat towing was not part of it I would just take my longest rod with me and try them out.. If you can get them into a Subaru outback or one of the newer “cross overs” you will get better gas cost then I do. After all you can get a roof rack on most cars now and with a bit of home craft put the rods into a tube on top… something I am getting ready to do for this summer so the kids do not get hooked anymore when in the back seat with XRAPS coming loose around their ears.
ok you dont want a little 2 wheel drive car but you dont want a big 4 wheel drive dodge ram cummins turbo diesel.
i like cars like the Toyota fourrunner because its small so it can get back into some tight areas or off a road and it has 4 wheel drive. now if you dont mind i think you could lay the back seats in a fourrunner down and set the rod up from the very back to the front inbetween the driver and passanger it may fit.
One with wheels would be a start…