This is probably one of the easiest things we have ever built to fit on one of our kayak projects, although the choice of products to use is enormous.

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All you need to buy is a bank stick and feeder rod rest, we bought both items from Go Outdoors, only because we were there buying a waterproof first-aid kit and I found the bits in the angling section. And you will need some Duck Tape

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The bank stick needs to be no thicker than 20mm, length is down to your own preference. The feeder rod rest we chose is 56cm wide, personally I wouldn't go any narrower.

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First job is to cut down the bank stick with a hacksaw, we have done this three times now, starting a little long and we are now at 60cm which I think will be perfect, keeping the rods clear of the foot pedals on the Mirage Drive when the rod butts are on the seat, which is our preferred position.

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Clean up the burred cut edges with a file.

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Drop the tube into the mast step in front of the cockpit and mark how far the tube drops into the hole.

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Then wrap the base with the Duck Tape, packing it out to about 22cm, its a bit of trial and error to get a nice fit, you don't want it sloppy or too tight, we put to much on, then started trimming off, wrapping the trimmed tape below the line we marked showing the depth of the mast step.

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Once happy do the second wrap until snug.

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Screw on the feeder rod rest. Tighten. Job done. Told you it was easy.

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A nice edition is a video camera fitted centrally on the feeder rod rest, its at the perfect height for trophy shots, I've seen these cable tied onto the rod rest, but you could bolt it on as there is a central screw in our chosen style of rod rest.

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This pictures shows the rod rest first time out, as you can see far to high, its been greatly lowered since this to our now preferred 60cm height.

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