Anyone know a better way to keep paint on aluminum spud poles? Not a big deal but just wanted some ideas you guys may have. Thanks in advance!

Line the inside of the socket with carpet or hydroturf.

Don't use them .. Even carpeted it's still gonna rub off

Gatorglide g4 on the insides of the holes?

Dont forget to let me know how it works....

I have g2 inside my holes g2 is still there not the paint on my spuds. Maybe if you GG the poles also it may work.

Only reason I think the paint is wearing is because I have some gap between the spuds and the hole. When the boat moves back and forth with a wave I believe it is scrapping it off with the edge. When I touch my boat up at the end of the season I will add to the edges of the holes. May also round the edges out some to eliminate it. May or may not work but worth a try.

Keep a .99 can of black spray paint handy.
Boom, there it is

its a duck boat? if you touch up every little paint chip you will spend more time painting then hunting. but if it really bothers you have a shop make you a uhmw bushing for the hole.

Holy crap, I thought this thread was a joke, like the first time I looked at bow rope storage!

I have both its 17' X 40" of storage. And my spud poles are scratched to hell!

id get some heat shrink from an electrical supplier... thatll put a solid sleeve over the whole thing what ever color youd like.. could even camo paint it then shrink some clear over it.

The best thing to do throw the poles away when they get scratched up and get new ones.

Or maybe not worry about the poles and shoot some Damn ducks.

Its a got dayum mud boat not a fuckin yacht!

Put a bunch of condoms on it. I suggest new and not used!!!!

Boudin sausage casing.

Cerakote it. Should be about $300 but you wouldn't have to be a little bitch any more.

That's only 40 bucks worth of cerkote. Fuk 300

I'm thinking that the paint chips reflect too much light from the under water LEDs. So yeah try carpeting the holes.


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Two coat of GatorBase today. I'll let you know how it works out.


Thought I'd camo the boom box

You got me thinking frog. I got the same boom box.

Yea that thing stood out like a lure to a nagger, did want it to disappear. took about 20 min to prep and paint

Got to thinking about bowline storage...again...anyway the 'GatorBase spud polls ain't got a nick in'em

Thanks for the help frog! I thought this topic was a little better than bowline storage...

You were mistaken.

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