etrailer | Ultimate Overview of the Trxstle CRC Rooftop Fly Rod Carrier

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Hi, everyone. Aiden here with etrailer. Today we're gonna be taking a look at this fly fishing rod carrier from Trxstle. Now that's gonna be a pretty unique way to carry your fly rods on your roof fully enclosed. And what makes it so unique is the fact that, one, it can store on the roof in a full long case, so you can store your fly rods in there fully assembled. You don't have to worry about breaking them down between uses.

But during the off season when you don't want the carrier up on the roof, you can collapse the carrier down to make a lot more space in your garage not having to store that long case. Let's check it out. Now this is the type of case you might be familiar with seeing with your fly rods already. Again, having to store it broken down and while it's nice, it offers protection for the fly rod, it does mean it's gonna be a little less convenient to get it assembled and ready to go. But I will say with the optional shoulder strap, that Trxstle case can be a replacement for this too.

If you don't mind breaking it down between uses and you just wanted to throw this whole assembly into the truck bed or something, it can at least hold two instead of just the one keeping it all together and with that optional shoulder strap, making it easy to carry to the water. Obviously the draw with this is the fact that the case can be expanded like this and store the fly rods whole so you don't have to worry about restringing it between uses can be especially useful if you're going on a long fishing trip and wanna fish all the way up until dusk, bring the rod back out a dawn the next day and not have to worry about restringing it and getting everything set up again. It's just gonna get you more time at the water and make the whole fishing process a bit simpler for you. Let's talk about the main feature here, which is expanding this or breaking it down. We'll start with expanding our silver one by going to both the top and bottom track where we're gonna have these little screws that we want to remove from the buttons.

They're gonna basically just act as safety stops and those buttons will be what we use to operate this. Now there'll be a third one at the very top where I guess more the tip of the carrier. This is the bottom edge, so we'll just undo that and set these to the side. Now you probably saw on the last clip it said start here button one. That's gonna be the first button we press and pull up on that nose until it locks out.

Now your instructions are gonna have a set of orders basically for those buttons, both for expanding and retracting. So the next thing we'll do is go to the underside for button three, press it and pull it until it locks. And then button four last. You do skip button two for the expanding. That's okay. And something to just kind of talk about is as you're doing it, it does become a little bit awkward to handle because the weight spreads out more and it just becomes a bit larger and unruly. So if you've got a workbench or something in your garage to set this on, that could help, but it's just something that you're gonna be facing when expanding it or collapsing it. While it's open like this we can get a better look at those clamp tracks underneath. The larger cutouts is where you feed the clamps in and slide them into the track where it be held captive. Just be careful when you're setting it up on your roof that you don't slide the whole carrier forward or back too much to where those clamps then become aligned with that open slot again, because then they're just not gonna be held in place at all. Retract it. We'll start with button two, then do button three, then do button four. So the only thing is button two is pretty hard to reach, but once you get that started, it's not too bad. Button four last and then at the very bottom just basically have to double press it because button three and four are right next to each other like we saw earlier when we removed those screws. But you can just go around double check that all of the slots have a button in them and reinstall your security screws to keep them from accidentally getting pressed in storage. Both the black one you see here and the silver one that I had on my shoulder will function the same way. They gave you the cylinder lock cores with a push button to open it. And there you can see our two fly rods inside stored reel up and it's gonna keep