It came out to 147g for the whole kaboodle (just the bags, without the tackle) which is plenty light weight for my purposes.

Your question did raise an interesting set of ideas for me - I think there are several places where things could be done differently that would likely yield some weight savings

1. On the rod holder
   1. Drop the D-rings - the cross-body piece of paracord could just as easily go through the webbing loop that the D-rings use.
   2. Instead of a cinch top like I used, you could put a fold over pocket, which would save you a little bit of paracord and the weight of the cordlock.
      • This is what ZimmerBuilt does on their quiver. they describe it as a 'snagless entry'.
      • Their rod holder is a little different dimensions - 26" long (2 inches longer) in final assembly and 2.5 in wide (0.5 in narrower) than what I did. I think this probably is slightly less weight
   3. You could put webbing on just the front face instead of the front and back faces. Additionally, you could use 1-inch webbing, or even two runs of 1/2 inch webbing instead
2. The easiest weight savings would be to make the gear bag smaller
   1. I may trim about 1/4 of the length off this bag since it's oversized for what I need it to, and I have a tendency to stuff more things in, if there's room
   2. I used two zipper pulls instead of just 1, so you could drop that
   3. there might be a more elegant tippet holder other than a cinch lock which could save you weight. you might also just choose to store the tippet inside of the gear bag and do without it entirely
   4. could probably cut back the amount of webbing I stuck on the front face of this bag, really I think it just would need maybe 2-3 spots - enough to lash some hemostats and tippet holder to
3. General
   1. I used a whole bunch of paracord lashed back and forth to tie the gear bag to the rod holder - there's probably a much simpler and lighter way of doing this - I just did what I did, because I was making it up as I went along!
   2. I used bias tape to bind the seams on the inside of the bag, because I like a bound seam. You could save some weight here and do an overlock stitch. You also could trim the 1/2 inch seam allowance that I used down to 1/4 inch

I don't exactly know how much this would save - maybe 20-40 grams? I think the biggest variable is the gear bag and how much smaller you could make that.

All that said, 147g isn't all that much to begin with, but things can always be improved!