How to outfit your kayak for the best angling experience.

Pretty much all kayak anglers have the same problem: there’s never quite enough secure storage space available on a kayak for all of your essential kayak fishing gear. That’s why some folks browse the best

Today’s kayaks are indeed formidable fishing boats. Though diminutive, they have ample tackle storage space and allow anglers to put rod holders and other accessories anywhere they desire. Able to handle almost any electronics from wee LCD sonar units to full-scale GPS/side-scan sonar displays, kayaks can put the angler on fish and fishy structure with style. But sonar and storage are just for starters. Here are six other often-overlooked kayak essentials for your fish-catching machine.

The kayak crate. It is probably one of the most coveted pieces of equipment a kayak fisherman can own and for good reason. While most anglers use a standard plastic milk crate, I tend to make mine out of inexpensive and readily available store-bought containers. When I first got into the sport, I used file crates for storage. The problem with these is that the plastic is thin and the crate tends to flex. Zip tie a couple of rod holders to these units and over a short period of time, the…

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If you fish out of a kayak, chances are you own a kayak crate. I’ve built a lot of these things in the past few years, mainly starting with the file crates that are available at stores like Office Depot and Walmart. For me, the plastic milk crates that can be found out back of most grocery stores are a little too small. The downfall of the office crates is that they don’t have near the rigidity that the milk crates offer. With as much crap as I typically load into my kayak, the office crates…

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There’s a ton of advice out there for how to set up your kayak for fishing and you probably won’t have a tough time finding recommendations for how to catch more fish when kayak angling.