THE BEST KAYAK FISHING CRATE EVER!! VIBE SEA GHOST 130

I know you've watched about 10,000 kayak crate videos to build a little fishing box for your kayak. You need to watch one more because I have the absolute best kayak crate building video out there and you need to see it. Welcome back friends. Today I'm going to show you how I built a little kayak crate to go on my Vibe Seaghost 130. Take a look at it how it sits on the kayak, how it fits, where I place things, and I'll show you how I made the decision to put things where they are and why I designed it the way I did. But I want you to take a look at it on the kayak before we delve into the nuts and bolts of this thing. So let's get started. Now the first thing you have to determine is what size crate you want to use and get yourself a crate. Now I've been collecting milk crates for 25-30 years just out of trash piles and things like that. Home Depot also carries these. I don't think Lowe's does or you can go to a Yak Gear buy theirs but they're just way overpriced. There's no sense in spending a bunch of money on this project. Now my particular situation I decided I wanted to have an extra compartment up top so I needed two crates and I just cut the top half off of one of the crates and made this other little storage unit. We'll talk about that more later. But that's going to be important as to where you're going to have your hinge. Next thing you're going to have to decide is do you want rod holders on yours. Yeah you can use some PVC and spend hours dremeling out all this and then zip tie them on there. It's going to look really crappy. I wanted mine to look nice. I wanted it to look like I built it purposefully and you know using the right hardware. Not having any excess out like that. I mean I've seen some stuff where people just obviously used whatever they had in the scrap pile and you know three eights bolts to bolt on a piece of plastic just didn't make any sense to me. And no sense in spending a half a day building this stuff and out of PVC and zip tying it on and have it look crappy when you can go buy one of these for $14.95 off of Amazon. I got a nice black satin finish here. You can go to Academy. You can go to Bass Pro. They're about 20 bucks there but all I could find there were white and I wanted a black one. The other thing about mounting this is you have to decide do you want it in the back of your crate, on the left hand side, the right hand side, or right behind the seat. In my particular situation I can get to them pretty easy here but some people aren't quite as flexible and if you're right-handed or you don't have a whole lot of flexibility on one side or the other you might want to have you know your rod holders on one side or the other. But you're gonna have to determine that because then you're going to figure out where your hinge is going to be if you're going to put one of these top storage units on here. Also you want to mount this thing up even with the the top and the reason for that is down here at the bottom if you mount these things down low and I've seen that happen your rod bottoms out and it sticks up out of the rod holder like that and it's going to do one of these things. But if you put some space down here to where it just bottoms out against the kayak you're going to be in good shape with something like that. As you can see I've got tethers on everything the way I designed my crate is if I tip this kayak over which you know it's not a question of if you're going to do it it's a question of when more than likely that's going to happen and I don't want to lose everything and so I've got everything on tethers and I've got latch here for my upper compartment so it doesn't open up and all my tackle boxes fly out and I just thought it was a good safety measure. You can get these carabiners for you know a buck at Home Depot and then I had in stock some color coordinated paracord too. So let me get this rod out of the way so you can see this a little better. So here's my rod holder this is just a standard one and you're going to see these they all kind of look the same. They've got some little eyelets in here where you can hang some lures on or something like that but obviously that's probably not going to be what we're going to use it for. In my case I just took my Dremel and I opened up this hole a little bit and this is where I've got my Mora companion knife here. These are great little knives they're about 15 bucks you can get a this is the companion they have several different styles and designs but they're all in the 15 dollar range for the low end and they are just a great little knife to have and then I just glued it in with some e6000 glue top and bottom and so good retention it's not going to come out regardless. Here's my little locking device for my upper compartment let's move around here and let me show you this real quick so we can get it out of the way you saw it on the kayak. These kayaks are kind of heavy especially when you get them loaded down and so I use a kayak dolly this one as you can see fit perfectly on the back of my Seaghost 130 and I just use some of these I just call them ball bungees or you can call them tarp bungees whatever like this it holds it on there nice and tight and it still gives me room to put my ice chest right there in the middle. Going around to this side I have my safety flag now when I go out on the big water over here we've got a real big lake here close to Dallas and there's a lot of people out there and in the evenings there's a lot of idiots jet skis and things like that probably had a little too much to drink I'll go ahead and fly my little flag this is nothing more than a couple cable clamps that I screwed on here and this is nothing more than a driveway marker that I got at Home Depot for two dollars and then I had some material and I just took some Gorilla tape and made you know made my own flag so you don't need to spend a bunch of money 30 40 50 bucks on a flag you can do something like this and then this store is nice and neat in the hull of my kayak I've got it all the time. Cruising around this way this is a little different than what some people have this is my anchor system this is three inch pvc I've got it angled up so I can easily access this with my right or my left hand I can just reach back and once again to keep everything in there from falling out if I you know tump over got another dollar carabiner this is a float from Academy $1.95 it comes in orange also yeah you can make one but I just like the way this fits in there keeps everything and in there the way it needs to be and then I've got all my cord in there and down at the bottom I have a three dollar anchor I'll just show easy to deploy these are $19 at Bass Pro and Academy and everything or they're $10 at Walmart same stuff made in China so no sense in overspending on that like I said this is three inch pvc that I had in the scrap pile and what I did down here at the bottom this is a this is a drain cap instead of using a regular pvc cap which is big and bulky and frankly twice the price they're about $4.50 this was about $2.50 and the drain cap also would make this stand out from the crate about a quarter inch using this system I can get this nice and flush against my crate and it just looks really nice plus when you bring your anchor in you've always got you know mud dirt things like that in it and this way it drains right off the bottom no problem and then I did went to the paint area over there and pulled out some of my paints and put a little custom paint job on it to match the rest of my boat now one thing you're going to notice here too is I've decided to you know get the proper hardware I got some fender washers now if you're fishing in salt water you're probably going to want to get stainless steel but this is just I think I spent about five dollars on all my hardware I've got nylon locking nuts number 10 screws you got the correct length anything that was longer I cut them off with my little dremel and I took a file and made them nice and smooth I did that everywhere here here in the in the crate here's my top container and you can put you know bottle water your lunch soft plastics whatever you want to store up here and then I just took some bungee cord I had laying around and hold everything in I use some just some zip ties I've got five pretty heavy duty zip ties here for my hinge and then I just put in some paracord here so this thing doesn't flip completely over it flips just past center and that way it holds holds itself open I went over to the hardware section at walmart because that's the only place I could find black bungee cords and I bought a pack of them and I just pulled this knot out undid it redid the knot and I cut and fit these to where they just have a little tension to where they fit into my kayak holds it in there nice and snug now as you can see this thing will hold we have five 3600 plano boxes in here it will hold six you can put another one on top or you can put a couple smaller ones like this like I have for terminal tackle so this holds a lot of stuff if you need more than this to go kayak fishing then it probably ain't the arrow it's probably the Indian that's all I'm saying so that's a whole lot of stuff check out my hardware here too for instance uh this one when I'm reaching back trying to get out another tackle box if I didn't cut this screw off right here I'd be scarring up and opening up a nice cut on the back of my hand so I just took some extra time to make this you know nice and flush and even so it doesn't mess it mess me up when I'm trying to get something out doesn't snag on my skin doesn't snag on anything else and I used fender washers to hold up to back everything up here against this plastic so nothing would pull through so that's kind of it that's the quick tour of my kayak tray I think if you just spend a little bit of time and really not much money and just think some things out of course I had two days to do it since it was raining and crappy but making tethers using the right you know get the colors make it the way you want customize it make sure it fits in the kayak and you can reach everything just the way you want obviously without tipping over and just maybe customize it with some some decals however you want to do it and just make it your own so that's my excellent kayak crate from a vibe seaghost 130 let me know what you think about it and if you have some any uh some ideas or comments you'd like to add don't forget to put those below hit that subscribe button hit the like button and share our video with your friends so until next time you guys be safe and we hope to see you down the road adios