I use a regular milk crate, 4 plano edge boxes, a small plano KVD soft plastics bag and a bass mafia moneybag for keitech. under the seat I keep a pelican case with jj magic bottles (got to keep these safe and protected from the sun)

I try to keep the bait monkey in check, so I don't own a million lures.  I do, however, take everything I own with me, every time I go out in my kayak.  That all fits in a tackle bag that carries 7-3600 boxes, plus a few other pockets.  I also bring six rods, which is as many as I can fit.  

 

My kayak is my only boat, so I'm not kayaking to be a minimalist.  I'm kayaking to get off the bank, without getting divorced.  I'll often bank fish on my lunch break at work.  In that case, I'll just bring one rod and one, maybe two baits.  That's my minimalist adventure.  

15 hours ago, schplurg said:

 

 

You put all of that in a kayak? 30 pounds of plastics is about 120 bags of 5 inch Senkos (at 11 grams per worm). All that weight would be a good workout!

I do.  Like the poster above me, I don't kayak to be a minimalist, I kayak to get off the bank.  I try to be as flexible as a boater in a smaller package and treat my kayak cockpit just like one would the front deck of a bassboat.

 

Yes, it's an incredible workout.  It'll take me about 15 minutes to unload and setup my boat for fishing and then about 15 more for me to break everything down at the end of the day.  I'm buying a trailer to cut down on my exhaustion.

I've never been in a situation where I wished I had more equipment in my kayak.

 

I can fit everything I need for literally any situation I encounter in one box.

6 hours ago, cgolf said:

 

I am curious do you use all the rods you take? Having fished from a small boat, I guess I got used to carrying less over the years and have more multi purpose combos. In the boat I have 5-6 bass rods and 1-2 musky rods. In the Kayak I do a M spin and a M or MH BC and just change lures a lot.

 

I know this question goes out to a lot of folks that carry a lot of combos.

Yes I do most days. It's not unusual to catch fish on 5-7 of the different rods I have on the deck.

On 11/10/2021 at 5:33 PM, JbroBass said:

I'm outfitting my kayak now over the winter and plan on going with 4 3700 boxes (1 narrow) and a large binder for plastics. These should fit neatly in the box directly behind my seat. I guess if it somehow is too much I'll fine tune what I'm doing over the course of the fishing season. 

@JbroBass Or anyone, can you provide a link or a brand name for these plastic worm binders?  I've seen them, but I'm not sure which one to get.  Looking for one I can just store the bags of worms you buy in and flip through them like a book.  Thanks

 

 

Depends. I don't like crates or kayak-specific tackle solutions (too many times I make a quick run to bank fish in the evenings and I don't like to have to move stuff from one system to the other) so everything I have is in a Puma duffle bag (the Puma is sparkly too, used to be my daughters but I'm fabulous with it over my shoulder). It has my tools in it, a Cal Coast Battle Box, (2) 3700, and a spinner/chatterbait box. But more often than not I just grab a couple bags of rage tail menace and some hook and sinker bottles out of the battle box and just roll with that. 

 

Love that Cal Coast Battle Box. 

On 11/11/2021 at 7:51 AM, Hook2Jaw said:

I keep almost my entire collection of baits in a Yakattack Blackpak and three Plano KVD Speedbags full of plastics.  I'd wager the Blackpak weighs 60 pounds and the plastics I carry weight about another 30 pounds.  I never come close to using it all, but it's easier for me to just grab the stuff and go than constantly switching different baits into different boxes.  My crate is filled from end to end with tackle sorted into individual 3600s and 3700s.  My plastics are sorted in the speedbags.  I always have seven rods with me, and it's the rods that are changed out from trip to trip.  I think I have about 20 different setups that could make the cut on any given day.

Wow this is impressive.  Nice!

 

4 hours ago, Smallies said:

@JbroBass Or anyone, can you provide a link or a brand name for these plastic worm binders?  I've seen them, but I'm not sure which one to get.  Looking for one I can just store the bags of worms you buy in and flip through them like a book.  Thanks

 

 

 

I'm planning on getting the Thekuai Binder in 13.4" x 9.8" x 1.6" size. But I would be curious to see if anybody responds with different suggestions and recommendations. 

I mean, to each his own, but I'd laugh at someone I saw putting a hundred pounds of fishing equipment in their kayak.

 

I've been fishing my entire life and I've never found a situation that required 40-50lbs of lures and baits...not even fishing offshore much less bass fishing from a kayak.

 

In my experience, and I've been guilty of it myself, it's the newbies that load themselves down.  I used to bring 6-7 rods.  Now I bring three.

 

As I got more experienced, I started bringing less stuff.

 

1 hour ago, CrashVector said:

I mean, to each his own, but I'd laugh at someone I saw putting a hundred pounds of fishing equipment in their kayak.

 

I've been fishing my entire life and I've never found a situation that required 40-50lbs of lures and baits...not even fishing offshore much less bass fishing from a kayak.

 

In my experience, and I've been guilty of it myself, it's the newbies that load themselves down.  I used to bring 6-7 rods.  Now I bring three.

 

As I got more experienced, I started bringing less stuff.

 

I'd rather spend time grabbing another rod with a bait I want already tied on than I would retying.  Every cast counts and more casts the better.

39 minutes ago, flyfisher said:

I'd rather spend time grabbing another rod with a bait I want already tied on than I would retying.  Every cast counts and more casts the better.

Only if it's fishing for money.

 

I fish for fun, and it's rare when I need to try 15-20 different lures to catch fish