Ultimate Kayak Fishing: Kicked-up Crate! - Ultimate Kayak Fishing

I added a couple of wrinkles to the basic fishing crate which I haven't seen anywhere else,..so I thought I'd share! I hope it gives you a new idea or two!
Here's the finished crate fashioned from a pair of plastic file-holder crates from Staples (one of the crates has the sides cut off and becomes the lid (as described elsewhere):


I have attached numerous 1 1/2" PVC tubes as rod holders as well as the slightly-inclined 1" PVC tubes at the rear which are the perfect size to hold my Hobie-trax cart:


The wheels must incline away from the crate in order to allow the lid to open fully. Serendipitously, the nite-light interferes with the swing of the lid just enough to hold it in the fully opened position, while you easily access the inside of the crate:




The next wrinkle is the Plano-box-holder that I fashioned on the inside of the crate with a network of zip-ties. It keeps the Plano box upright and seperated so that I can easily remove & replace it by reaching around behind me with just one hand, even when the rest of the crate is stuffed full of gear:

Here is another "twist" on doing a milkcrate. This is from ClouserKid1 over on SOL


Milkcrate