Tracker Marine, L.l.c.

Bass Pro Shops, Inc.

Robert L Martin

John L Morris

A rod and reel storage system for a fishing boat. In one embodiment, trays are mounted in the gunwale walls and provided with guide tubes through which stored fishing rods extend into the gunwale cavity. The trays have separate compartments which receive and hold the reels. Hinged hatches on the gunwales cover gunwale hatchways that provide access to stored rods and reels. In another embodiment, a reel storage compartment is located to one side of the control console of the boat, and tubes extend forwardly beneath the bow fishing deck to hold the rods. A hinged door opens and closes the storage compartment and may be locked closed.

Rod and reel holder for fishing boats

In a fishing boat, a built-in tank which serves the combined function of a livewell for holding fish that are caught and a bait well for receiving a minnow bucket. An electric pump powered by the battery of the boat pumps water from the lake into the tank in a manner to aerate the water and circulate it in the tank. A drain tube drains off water from the tank and prevents overflow. One half of the tank serves as a bait well in which a minnow bucket may be suspended. The other half of the tank is a livewell which receives newly caught fish. The livewell and bait well have separate hinged lids.

Combination livewell and bait well for fishing boats

A power actuated mechanism for raising and lowering a console mounted windscreen and/or electronics panel on a fishing boat. An electric actuator has its base end pivoted to the console and its rod end extending downwardly to a pivot connection with the lower end of a rigid bracket. The bracket is secured at its upper end to the electronics box so that retraction of the actuator raises the box and windscreen about a hinge axis while extension of the actuator effects lowering of the box-windscreen.

Retractable arrangement for fishing boat console components

A retractable boat cleat which moves alternately between extended and retracted positions upon alternate depressions of the cleat. A pivotal latch with notched ends cooperates with a specially spaced recess in the cleat and a pair of compression springs to provide the alternate extension and retraction.

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Springfield, MO, United States of America

Robert L Martin