Tournament Grade Tackle Rod-riggers
Trolling Bahia San Pablo north of Bahia Asuncion.

NOTE: Rod-riggers are temporarily out of stock. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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Rod-riggers are a great, low-tech, low-maintenance way to widen your trolling spread on a small boat. Outriggers obviously get you a wider spread, but they don't travel well, they're expensive, and they're not as easy to use. These riggers from Tournament Grade Tackle in New Jersey are pricey, but they're in a completely different class from "traditional" tube-type rod-riggers.
  • With traditional rod-riggers, you have to lean outboard and actually slide the rod away from you to get it out of the rigger. Not an easy chore with a 35-lb. yellowfin on the end of the line. With TGT riggers, you just grab the foregrip and lift up and in.
  • TGT riggers position the reel directly above the gunnel, so you can comfortably adjust drag, let out line and reel in line without leaning outboard to get to the reel. Your reel can't rotate either.
  • A rubber-padded reel rest holds anything from a baitcaster to a 50-wide. The pads are actually reversible to make the reel rest wider or narrower.
  • Rods rotate in traditional riggers; typically, the weight of the reel turns them so that the guides are on the bottom. But TGT riggers hold rods in place so they bend the way they're meant to bend. They also support the rod under the foregrip, rather than just holding the butt.
  • Traditional rod riggers point your rod upward at a significant angle. TGT riggers hold rods horizontal, keeping lines down out of the wind and maximizing spread width.
  • TGT riggers come with an integrated rod-leash, but we don't even use it. Vertical metal tabs covered in green or red plastic keep your reel from sliding out of the holder. With traditional rod-riggers, tight turns can actually pull rods on the inside of the turn out of the holder.
  • A patented "Z-notch" locks the rigger onto the gimbal pin at the bottom of your rod holder. It can't be lifted straight out; you have to twist it forward and lift to remove it.
  • For running and docking, another gimbal notch allows the riggers to be rotated 90 degrees so they're roughly parallel with the gunnel and not sticking outboard nor into the cockpit.
  • TGT riggers are handmade from solid stainless steel; your rod-holders will give before they do.
  • In an outward-angled forward rod-holder, the riggers will point your rod tip slightly forward. In a straight-back aft rod holder, the rod points slightly aft. We like to run the riggers in the forward holders and use the aft holders for our inboard lines. We run the inboard lines either straight off the rod tip or through flat-line clips, depending on the wind and what we're fishing for.


To remove a rod, just grab the foregrip and lift
up and in.
TGT riggers position the reel directly above the gunnel, so you
can adjust drag, let out line and reel in line without leaning
outboard to reach the reel.

A padded reel rest holds anything from baitcasters to 50-wides,
and plastic-covred steel tabs prevent rods from sliding out of
riggers. Integrated tethers are included anyway.
TGT riggers hold rods parallel to the surface, keeping lines
down out of the wind and maximizing spread width.

In the aft pair of rod holders, TGT riggers point
rods slightly aft. In the forward pair, which are
angled outward, the riggers point rods slightly
forward.
A patented "Z-notch" locks the riggers into rod-holders. You
have to twist and lift to remove them. Tension on the line
locks them in even tighter.

Another notch, at right angles to the Z-notch,
allows riggers to be rotated 90 degrees for
running and docking.


TGT Rod-riggers, one pair
$290/pair
plus $14 shipping
*NOTE: rod-riggers are shipped UPS,
so you must provide a physical address,
not a P.O. box.
TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK

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