Boat Cutting Boards

Alright, and we are live. We're excited. Welcome back. It's a new year 2020. It's gonna be awesome. Yeah, we've got a lot of exciting things for this year. And we're gonna start with a new Facebook Live about onboard bait prep. And, you know, ask Matt to be part of this one because you're the, the main fisherman guy, right. So kind of the context and kind of go through there. Yeah, So I mean, you get on your boat, maybe you're doing some bottom fishing, you're gonna be cutting bait all day, you're gonna be getting everything ready for everybody who's dropping lines and, and you need a place to cut the bait. And you know, a lot of people, if they don't have anywhere to go, they end up cutting on the boat, final, whatever, you know, areas out of the way, kind of in your cooler, cooler top, and you know, in their options, but we have some good ones. Awesome. Well, so one of the things that we want to do is kind of go through each of the different ways you can install it, like the way it works on your boat, you know, of course, you could bring a loose cutting board, you know, buy a piece of kit, decide star board or bring a cutting board from home and it would be loose, but then you have issues with where you set it as a fly off the gun or when you're running, we actually went on a fishing charter two years back, and we had a guy that used a piece of cut size star board not unlike this that had a lanyard and it hung against their gun Oh, and just kind of hanging everywhere, it was just charter guy got the job done. It's not the prettiest looking thing, right. But assuming that you don't want something loose, you know, it has to mount to the boat in some capacity. So one of the first main ways is using a rod holders, right, get out a rod holder display, and we'll look at that. Alright, so this is a 15 degree rod holder. And then right here we have a big prep table that's on an adjustable base. This drops in and locks in, and the entire unit is adjustable. So where's the handle? Right over here. So you can see everything moves around that you can adjust it to fit whatever rod holder you're using, whether it's pointing off the side pointing straight back, you know, off the back of the boat, maybe angled out a little bit. Either way, you're going to be able to get to a usable angle for the kind of it's gonna… We’re gonna 15 on a 30 on a zero degree rod holder or be able to angle it back if you want your the blood and guts to drip off the back. That's one nice there. If you've got a corner maybe you got a corner that's over the gunnel and the other one isn't you can you can adjust it so angles back towards one corner all your blood guts might go that way. But yeah, nice and nice, real convenient feature and usable, functional storage. So some perks for this things we've incorporated into it, we do have supplier holders, right, right, drop it in back there, right, right, a knife holder, I promise I'm not going to stab Yeah, slides in piece of cake, we got your, your spot for your drink. Which spot over here for a towel holder. So you know, when you're cleaning your hands after you've been cutting all that bait, it's nice to have somewhere to go and wipe your hands off. And then in the front, one thing that most people don't realize is that we do drill some through holes in the front and in the side. Right. And the nice thing about that is you're able to use it just for your extra rigs to just hook it on and hang it, you know, what kind of things do you think you would want to keep it something like this. you know, for me, it's just a real convenient place to put hooks, rigs, jigs, you know, anything that I'm using that I need to cut off to tie something else on real quick, it's a quick easy way to keep stuff from rolling around or, or laying on top, potentially sliding off. You know, you’re saying you can even use it for like tying off. Now you're rigging. When I’m tying knots. And I need to pull that knot to get it tight. It's a nice spot for me to just put the hook and draw the line real nice. Cool. So you know, one negative of this is it takes up a rod holder, right? And that's probably a very limited, you know, rod holders on the boat. Or if the spot you really want to be able to rig has a rod holder that you use for your spread or that you commonly you know, is committed to something right, that's certainly negative. And we'll talk about some different options for that. But let's look at kind of an upgraded version of that. Sure. We'll take everything out of here. Undress, yes. Alright, pull this guy out. And I will grab this guy. So this is the new and improved rod holder mount. Cutting board and you got to get it to lock in. There we go. And then readjust it right? Yep. Readjust, you can turn and I'm gonna let you adjust it. What am I doing wrong? Right. Yeah, there we go. Boom. So we're now nicely centered, and we are locking into place. Alright, so you know what's the difference? Right. The big difference is just that you get all of your terminal tackle right here by sliding this Plano tray on. So we're gonna Plano tray slide and we do elect to use the waterproof Plano trays. Idea being it's up in a location where it certainly is going to get a lot of spray. You know, you just want to make sure that it's your co. Now one tip on these is you want to consider if you're using those using some rice or some [Unclear 04:51]. Or something, something that's gonna you know, absorb any moisture or humidity that gets in there so it doesn't rust out all your tackle. Yeah, by the way. I think you said it earlier. No water in no water… No water out. This slides right in here, June piece of cake. You got some twists, so that thing doesn't rattle on you. And now you have the same thing that we're just looking at. But you have a nice waterproof 3700 Plano tray right under it. Right? Real convenient. Cool. So you these are two great options. Now for the person who is concerned about the Hey, I'm losing a rod holder. Here's kind of the next option. Take this down, right, set it off to the side. Oh, I'm sorry, I'm taking this away. I'm jumping the gun. We're going with the trident. So you may have seen this before the trainer rod holder. I mean, this is a 15 degree rod holder it drops in it turns one into three which is really convenient. A lot of people use it up in the back of the boat when they're kite fishing. Maybe they'll run their kite reel here with their two, two rods with their lines running up the kite off the side. Perfect so yeah, I mean, this is common commonly used for kite fishing, like you're saying, but we designed a version. And you'll see this looks a lot like what you've been seeing here, right? But the same tarp and everything, instead of the adjustable brace, we've got, you know, a kind of a clamping patch drops on it. Yes, it's spinning around. Let's put it on. See if I can do this. So you guys will be able to kind of see how this hooks on would keep the bungees out of the way and line it up and it just drops right in place. These wrap around and snap right in like a box nice and easy. Now this unit that we're looking at is designed for a 30 degree rod holder. Rod holder that I've been using is a 15 degree. So we're going to spin this around. And I'm going to shim it up using just an old Plano tray so that it looks like you know for 30 degree right? This is a 15 now it's a 30 because we're using the Plano tray. Right, right. But same deal, right? Same exact thing. Same thing as the new improved rod holder mount version still holds the planer tray comes with a waterproof Play Now tray. We pop the cup holder out of this one because we're moving it around, but comes with a cup holder in there too. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, everything works right the plier holders, the night holder, this has become a really good seller, since we added to the site probably about a year ago. Recently Added 30 degrees. So this one that you're looking at is less common than the 15 degree rod holder. I think most of the transom. A lot of others are your fifteens. Right. A lot of well, yeah, a lot of works. You run into your gun, oh rod holders might be 30s towards the back of the boat. Sometimes in the transom you'll see anything from zero to 30. Yeah, but up in the bow of the boat. A lot of the people who really are kite fishing, they're running out of 15. So you know, you want to have a little angle to the ride. But you don't need so much when those lines are running out the kite. Do we have one for zero? We don't have one for zero. We don't have one for zero? Let us know in the comments reach out to us. You know, if you think that, you know, you would ever use a trident like this. And as your interview rod holder, I think the consensus for a long time was that 15 was acceptable. But we did get enough requests to do 30 that we recently added that to the website, we certainly can do it for zero as well. There is one thing to note about this, and I don't think we talked about this earlier. But one thing guys, it will improvise what you'll see this is really good. In situations where the rod holder, you're putting it into faces off the side of the boat off the off the gun or the boat. If it faces back towards the transom or at an angle your cutting board is going to be at that same angle, it's going to make it a little bit more difficult to use. Maybe it's still functional if you have you know a little bit of an angle. But you know, some of those more severe angles that face more aft will be more challenging to use. Yes, it is less flexible than using the one with the adjustable arm. Right It's absolutely I would agree with that. So transitioning, you're away from rod holder mounts. These are really all of the different designs we have that use a rod holder transitioning to other options. Okay, I don't want to use rod holders. I want something else. It's let’s clear out some space for sure. Sure. We'll unbutton this real quick. And you take that whole thing out if you want. Oh I guess Yeah. Transitioning away from rod holders. One of my next suggestions would be Hey, do you have a cooler on the boat that you have just a little bit of space on top of let's pull out my Yeti 65 I brought from home. Oh yeah from space here. Perfect. Matt was mad that I brought my cooler. I thought it was just convenient. But we manufacture a line of different cooler top cutting boards. For most of the common manufacturers. We've got them for a Yeti and angle. We do have a blue one as well. But let's go ahead and drop it on it's a little bit dirty because this is actually my personal cutting board. You see the scents on top and then let's open it up so they can see what happening on the underneath sides. So there's little tabs in the side that slide under and you know hold it really snug. Yeah, you can let go of this and it'll hang on there. You shake it around. It's not going anywhere. The really convenient thing is it's designed so that these tabs will sit right down in the recess that's already moulded into the Yeti Coolers where your tie down straps go and it doesn't keep you from being able to use your tie down straps or even some of the Yeti accessories that go there. Yeah, your Yeti, your side mounted rod holder colors. Yeah, yeah, works with all of that. It also works. It doesn't interfere with your, your locking your lock hole there. Absolutely. I've seen some other models that do use that this is a really low profile way to take your cooler and protect it or make it really nice. I only likes to cover $400 cooler Oh, no, no, no, no. So this is a very good option, we have them available for most models for most common cooler tops. If you have a cooler and you don't see one, you give us a call, and we can certainly work with you on doing something custom. Okay. So for the guy who goes… I don't have a Yeti or a cooler that you want to cut out of a rod holder, I got some other ideas. So the next option you want to you want to lift this down or you’re bigger. Next option is using a five gallon bucket, right so plenty people keep a bucket, you on board, it's sometimes there's a trashcan or maybe for bait, your chunk bait storage, we do have a couple of different really cool cutting board options for a bucket and we're gonna get the first one right here. This one's on me. So this is super simple. It's very inexpensive. I think something like this is probably around 20 bucks, maybe a hair under on that give or take but it is designed to fit a five gallon bucket drops right on, you can see I'll tilt it how it has this, you know, cut out in in the idea being if you're cutting chunk bait or really anything else you're able to chop and slide in and store it. It's got a nice knife slot so you can keep it like and… This isn't they're nice contains the blade you don't have to worry about anyone getting cut. So it's a super inexpensive convenient way to add a small cutting surface. You’re if you do keep a five gallon bucket on board. Right now there's an upgraded version of that. Yes, which I have right here. So you can see here, this one, also milled on the underside with a recess so that it fits right around the lid of the five gallon bucket just snaps right in place as soon as you get it lined up, has a nice handle on it, but also has a little opening where you can cut your chunk bait, pop it into the bucket, so it's out of the way and you got a good clean work surface. But there's a couple other features on here that are pretty nice as well, you know, we've it that you won't find on the other one, we got the plier holder here, you got some of those holes on the side here that you can hang your rigs or spare hooks or jigs from there's a there's a milled in ruler on the bottom edge. To see because it's so bright here. I'm close enough. I don't know if you can see it. Maybe you can pull it up on the website. Yeah, but we'll show we'll show you guys. But there's also a blood group that runs around here and feeds into the bucket. So if anything else is going on there. My personal favorite feature is this little milled recess which I know you can't see on the camera. But I mean if you're if you're trying to there you go yet now you can see it right here. But if you're if you're cutting off a sinker, you're going from like one ounce lead to a two ounce lead because the current just picked up and you're not getting to the bottom that you've got somewhere you got to put this sure you can drop it in a cup holder somewhere now no, so nobody can put their cup in there. But it'll you can drop it right here and it's not rolling anywhere. It's nice until you're ready to take it and store it, put it back, put it back away, but it keeps you keeps it fishing longer quicker. And you forgot the ergonomic handle had like which make it super comfortable and convenient. It's number one selling pitch. Cool. So you know one thing to consider about the last two options, both the cooler top cutting board and the Yeti five gallon bucket is it's probably a less convenient and comfortable cutting location. Given the fact yes, you're either on your knees or sitting Somewhere, maybe you're sitting in cooler and doing this. Right, you know versus the you're getting it up elevated so that it's kind of working height. Yeah, so definitely something to consider. So let's take and set these to the side. And we will talk about the last option, which we pulled these at the last second right before we went live. It might even be on the live stream. So the other option is again, you don't want to use it a cutting board. You don't want to use a cooler or a bucket, you're going to need some other type of mount some third party now there's a variety of different options, you've got something like this V lock, which is really great product we think really highly of it. The idea here is that you mount this V lock, you know onto the side of the boat, and then you are able to take the fully table and you mount an angled V lock, you know kind of male female and it drops in and locks into place. And now the next thing is you're able to remove that. Yep, the slides are able to pull the pin remove it move your cutting board around and you after we show this we'll switch back Go over to the website. And, you know, show you some that we manufacture or you can take really any piece of star board cut star board and mount this to it. And that's certainly an option, right what you got there. So the other option if you don't want the permanent mount on the boat is you have the C sucker, you know the C sucker canal right to the bottom of any of the cutting boards, you can put it into any flat surface, as long as you got enough area where you can send it down and prime the corner. I mean, I've used these for my cutting boards that we move it all over the bow, we use it for bait prep on top of our live well lid, you know, we're not necessarily live baiting, we don't have to get in the live will lid or maybe I've got a cutting board that's small enough where I can still open it in the sea sucker lets me put it right there and let it stay in place. Now, would you agree? And maybe you don't that if you're going to mount this on the bottom of a cutting board, you probably need to or like this, right? Yes, unless it's really small, or…There are ways around it. It’s a little bit more of an involved process. I mean, you got to have sides on your cutting board that come down the same height as this sucker. So that it stabilizes. Yep, yeah, that's a good point in your, we, I was actually looking at the website to see if I can find couldn't find it. I know we have prototype some of those. And we have prototype some that you know, mountain a little bit different where it might, it might attach to the side of the tunnel like this and come up and hinge over. So we'll be revisiting those. Now. There's the website. But if you ever want to work with us on any of that being the guinea pig, maybe taking some pictures, let us know because that's certainly something that we want to get loaded up. I'm gonna switch over to the website real quick. And I'll show you some of these. So here is an example of your, the V lock cutting board, right. So this is a large one that we went ahead and put two on. But I do believe we have a smaller version right here, boom, with the single V lock. It's perfect. So this is the same, the same deal. So it's a variety different options. One thing that I wanted to call out while I'm in here is that for this specific unit, I would say this is probably of all the ones we've shown you this is probably the best seller. It also is besides the Trident probably the most expensive, but probably… The one with the with the Plano tray. Yes, I would say so for sure. Yeah, um, but I would say it's probably the best seller we do a boat outfitters fishing trip for our whole customer service team every year. And we went two years ago. And that's where I mentioned that the all they had was a cutting board that was banging against the transom. And I had actually brought some products, I want to get some product photos while I was there. And that's what you can see here. So here it is on the fishing trip. Right. And we were doing a lot of bottom fishing. So that was that was the two year ago picture. That was two years ago. And then at the end of the trip, I'm like, Oh man, I can't let these guys go back to their bang and cutting board. So Right. You know, we gave it to them as a gift when we left. And I thought for sure. Because you know you get it. It’s for is a charter guy said he ran 300 charters last year, maybe he embellished but it's almost 200. But there's no question like when we hear about failures for parts that we sell, there's no question that it typically would be a charter boat Guy. Guy, a charter boat guy that uses it for six months is like six years or 10 years for your regular kind of, you know, just recreational fisherman. Right, right. So we came back a year later expecting to see the whole thing not working. And we were just blown away that it was stalled. Perfect. I mean, it was really working. Well. I mean, you could see he's used it. Even if he says he fish 250 days, two trips a day. Yeah. And it's holding up. Now that is also where we found about here, I'll switch back over. That is where we found out about the rusting screws in your right. Waterproof water. So in that waterproof dry, you do want to use rice or some kind of a something to keep it dry in there. So let's switch back here and see if we have any comments. Where's it at? Let me see if I can figure this out. Doo doo. Alright, do the rod holder. The rod mounting plate tables come with the adjustable holders on the bottom. So the answer is yes, absolutely. So all of these different units that you saw, lift one back up, include the adjustable base. I know that there are some other places online that maybe sell them separately, which sometimes is a little bit confusing or misleading in some cases but no we include everybody's drop in and use on the boat that is 100% ready to go right. Can you show us the cutting board from the charge ship? Yes. So Sarah was trying to get show that she had that all set up. So you saw that that's good to go. Anything else? No, I think we pretty much covered the spectrum. We did a pretty good job. If there's anything else you guys think of that we haven't thought of in this episode, then definitely let us know in the comments. I mean, we want to hear it we want to add to this add value to it and we're here to respond. Yeah, I would love if someone watching had the next great idea. Give us a call. We'll build it together and get you hooked up. Otherwise we really appreciate your time really going forward to a great 2020. Thanks and have a great day.