Abstract: A fishing pole holder/carrier apparatus for attachment to a vehicle, the apparatus including, in a first embodiment, a main support tube configured, at a first end, for being received within a trailer hitch receptacle. A second member is pivotally attached at one end to the other end of the main support member, and pivotable to a prescribed angular orientation. A cross-member is pivotally coupled at the center thereof to the other end of the second member. Secured to the cross-member are a plurality of tubes configured for receiving the handles of the fishing poles therein. The parts are arranged so that the cross-member may be pivoted between a first position aligned with the second member to a second position transverse to the second member, and the second member may be pivoted to overly the main support member whereby the holder folds to a compact unit for storage. In a second embodiment, the second member is secured to the first member, with the cross-member bolted to the second member.

Abstract: A fishing pole holder fabricated with an elongate tubular member, threaded on a least one end, which serves as a main support. First and second disc members are attached centrally thereon in spaced relation adjacent one end of the support, the upper disc including circumferentially disposed apertures therein of the same or different sizes for receiving the handles of the fishing rods, the distal ends of which abut the other, or lower disc. The other end includes an upper rod retaining assembly, which includes a disc scalloped about the periphery thereof with a radially slit foam member sandwiched thereto, the scalloped disc having a member affixed at the center thereof for threadable attachment to the threaded end of the tubular member. In a first embodiment, the lower end of the tubular member is provided with a support in the form of an extension which depends below the lower disc for insertion into a mating receptacle which is affixed to the boat.