What's in yer milk crate? 2025

haggard reply :

Yakkers... and even power boaters... the milk crate makes an easy way to consolidate your most important gear in an easy to carry, easy to strap down convenient package.

Assuming you could carry a separate cooler for ice and food/drink, if you could carry only ONE standard sized milk crate for all your other stuff (excluding rods and reels), what do you put in it?

Tackle box? Fire extinguisher? Air horn? Flare? Yeti mug? Lights? Anchor and line? First aid kit? Tools?

slonezp reply :

Milk

Dens228 reply :

6 3600 boxes two worm binders.

One binder for spinner and buzz baits, the other for plastics.

Darren. reply :

Besides rod holders, I have a spare prop and spare pin,

my TM battery, rope.

TimberTodd reply :

Anchor and rope when its not being used. It also gets the raincoat or jacket when it warms up.

A-Jay reply :

I use Two.

Storing multiple labeled 'money bags' of assorted soft plastics.

Works well.

A-Jay

Bluebasser86 reply :

I have one in my boat with boat tools, spare TM prop, spare prop hub, and prop wrench in it.

JLBBass reply :

Gotta love the milk crate for yakkin! Fits perfectly in rear area in my Ascend 12T. I have a "3 rod" holder attached to it, and carry extra rope, a few odds/ends, and some 3700 plano boxes.

InFishingWeTrust reply :

I kayak my self. Milk crate is some thing I actually dont carry. If I did though be my camping stuff. I got places for every thing on my yak at the moment. How do you like the ascend? I was looking at them. I ended up getting a nucanoe pursuit this winter.

volzfan59 reply :

I carry several 360 boxes in mine until now. After reading Darren's reply, I'll be dropping a 360 or two, and adding a spare prop and pin. My T/M battery is mounted in a front compartment.

This will sound stupid, but when I had my ChampioN bass boat, I carried a spare outboard prop and a t/m prop. I built my own t/m and micro-pole mount for my yak. Never even thought about carrying and spare prop for it.

MN Fisher reply :

I haven't been on the water in the canoe yet (melt, darn ice, melt), but I've already delegated the three milk crates I've set aside

1) Behind the stern seat: excess cable for the Minn-Kota, anchor and line, anything else I need handy

2) Under the midship thwarts (part of the mods I'm doing)

a - Starboard: Battery (75 ah) in a metered box for the motor and sonar

b - Port: thowable cushion, spare life-jacket, small cooler for drinks (ice-tea and ice-coffee), misc other

Catt reply :

Anchor & a Q-beam ????

MassYak85 reply :

Everything lol...

The two deep plano's on the sides are swimbaits and if I don't feel like bringing swimbait gear they do a great job of holding my anchor, anchor line, lure retriever etc. The front PVC tube is for my net, the tall one in the back is for a light/flag pole, and the 4 others I use for rods.

JLBBass reply :

On 4/8/2018 at 2:43 AM, MassYak85 said:

Everything lol...

The two deep plano's on the sides are swimbaits and if I don't feel like bringing swimbait gear they do a great job of holding my anchor, anchor line, lure retriever etc. The front PVC tube is for my net, the tall one in the back is for a light/flag pole, and the 4 others I use for rods.

Holy crap!

lo n slo reply :

in my previous jon boat, spark plugs and a multi-socket wrench ????

Harold Scoggins reply :

3700 Deep for cranks, 3700 for top water, 3700 for jerk baits, 3600 (not shown) for terminal. Attached to the side of the crate is an IFAK (Individual First Aid Kit), and other pouches for misc. I also have a 12V control box made from a 1449 Plano box that plugs into a SAE plug in the rear of the tank well that provides power to the GoPro and 12V Nav light.

Tizi reply :

I carry the following in the rear of my Jackson Cruise 10 Angler via milk crate: 8 can Coleman cooler, 2 rods, anchor with bag and rope, assault paddle, 2 3600 waterproof boxes with lures, 1 bag of plastics, dry box with flashlight, first aid kit, fish scale, and various tools.

J Francho reply :

Everything but the kitchen sink.

Choporoz reply :

Couple things I didn't see mentioned above; headlamp, empty bottle (urinal); tp in waterproof baggie

IgotWood reply :

I have to be honest, my crate is full of junk, mostly. I conveniently use it to store some tools and misc items (pliers, snips, boga, etc) when not in the kayak. When I get to the water, it all comes out and has a place on the deck. What's left in the crate is usually a few spare packs of plastic baits, a spare spool of fresh line, and a bunch of food wrappers from the previous 10 trips I made. Some day I'll organize it and use to my advantage.

haggard reply :

On 7/31/2018 at 11:15 PM, J Francho said:

Everything but the kitchen sink.

How are you liking the new Compass?

J Francho reply :

On 8/1/2018 at 8:38 AM, haggard said:

How are you liking the new Compass?

Love it. Note, in that pic, the Mirage Drive is deployed, but with the fins tight to the hull, no need to remove the drive system in order to beach the boat. The whole clearance thing, and won't run through weeds is much ado about nothing.

Never mind the fish catching mojo...

12poundbass reply :

This might be a really dumb question but here goes....where does one get a milk crate?

@slonezp I'll beat ya to it, even though my dad is the milk man he doesn't have any. ????

haggard reply :

On 8/3/2018 at 6:45 AM, 12poundbass said:

This might be a really dumb question but here goes....where does one get a milk crate?

Office supply places have "milk crates" but I say that in quotation marks because they're just cheap and flimsy. Nothing beats a real one. Problem is those warnings on the side saying property of milk company, you will be prosecuted, etc.

slonezp reply :

When I was young, we would "borrow" them from the grocery store loading dock.

flyfisher reply :

My crate usually has about 6-7 plano boxes of various sizes, a bottle of gatorade or 2 and some adult beverages as well. I personally hate having rod holders on my crate. And I am in a kayak as well.

J Francho reply :

On 8/3/2018 at 6:45 AM, 12poundbass said:

This might be a really dumb question but here goes....where does one get a milk crate?

Home Depot usually has nice ones.

12poundbass reply :

On 8/3/2018 at 8:52 PM, J Francho said:

Home Depot usually has nice ones.

Is your PM back up and working? It was down yesterday afternoon.

J Francho reply :

Yes, I deleted a few hundred messages, lol.

12poundbass reply :

On 8/3/2018 at 10:02 PM, J Francho said:

Yes, I deleted a few hundred messages, lol.

Sent you a PM.

WRB reply :

I keep my night fishing stuff along with anchor, rope, lights, cap light used for night fishing. Makes it easy to pick up and put in the boat when needed, also allows the anchor rope to dry out if used.

Tom

slonezp reply :

On 8/3/2018 at 10:02 PM, J Francho said:

Yes, I deleted a few hundred messages, lol.

Reminds me of a thread about how to get in touch with J Francho.....

ApacheGuns515 reply :

What's in my milk crate? Way too much stuff.....

I am one of those "better to have and not need" people and even if I go out to fish for a specific species I always bring everything just in case I'm not catching anything and want to switch it up.

That basically results in me having about 2 tackle bags worth of stuff and 4 rods. Oh and a beverage cooler that sits on top of all of that stuff that I have to move out of the way whenever I need to access my tackle.

I keep telling myself that I bought a kayak years ago for the simplicity of it. But my over active brain just "knows" that the one day I don't bring my stuff will be the day I wish I had it. Even though today when digging through my stuff I found like 10 lure sets that I forgot I even had in there which sort of proves I don't need most of this stuff...

flyfisher reply :

On 8/3/2018 at 8:52 PM, J Francho said:

Home Depot usually has nice ones.

They have a rigid branded one i am thinking of getting myself. I think it would fit i note extended tank well area of my ATAK 140 perfectly but i need to measure to make sure.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/RIDGID-22-in-Pro-Box-Black-226036/206291778

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