So this boat has a few storage areas. 2 in the back for the battery and the gas tank. And one in the bow where all the safety stuff is and a small tool kit. But other than that storage is limited. I’m gonna branch out to a couple new lakes. And wanted more tackle storage. My bag is full with 2 Plano boxes and plastics. And I don’t care for storing plastics in boxes.

So I went to scheels and got a flambeau 7510 and took the lid off. That’s for soft plastics and then at fleet farm got a Plano 14 gallon storage tub. Nice quality and seals well. Great latches as well. Which means I can leave it in the boat for the ride and not worry about the lid blowing off. I also got a small plastic ammo can at fleet farm and took the lid and latch off of it. For pliers and scale and spike it markers and other fishing related tools. Everything measured out great to fit and leaves room for my jig box and hard baits box. This should work out great gonna test it out tommorow.

How’d it work out???

I have been struggling with storage on my little boat for ever.

I still haven’t found that ……”ah ha” moment where I go “that’s it”, maybe I’ll get it one day.

@GRiver So far I really like it actually. For a $20 tub. It’s really nice and stout. And the lid actually slides down and fits tight and the latches are really nice and actually latch.

It’s working out well for me. I went this route for these reasons:

-It will stay dry if I get caught in any rain. Even though I try hard not to.

- hate putting stuff in the boat at the ramp. Drives me nuts. Reminds me of having to rig my whole kayak in the dark. This I just set in the boat at the house and drive to the lake and don’t even worry about it being back there.

-I can pop the lid off and reach anything I want whenever I want. No digging out a ziplock bag full of plastics or let me unzip this to grab a scale. Or whatever. I just pop the lid off and set it somewhere out of the way and I’m set.

This gives me “bass boat storage” in my tiny boat. So now when I get to the ramp it’s just throw 4 rods in the boat and go and same for the trip home.

I have a similar plastic box in my boat. It's called an ammo box and it's watertight, so I have extra soft baits and snacks in it and it stays in my canoe all summer.

15 minutes ago, Swamp Girl said:

I have a similar plastic box in my boat. It's called an ammo box and it's watertight, so I have extra soft baits and snacks in it and it stays in my canoe all summer.

Yeah the green box inside the large Plano box is an ammo box with the lid and latch removed to make it fit inside.

13 hours ago, Swamp Girl said:

I have a similar plastic box in my boat. It's called an ammo box and it's watertight

I have something similar, it a small cooler with locking lid. It fits snug between the seats, call it my dry box. Keeps flares, phone, etc anything I want to protect.

22 hours ago, Joedodge said:

No digging out a ziplock bag full of plastics or let me unzip this to grab a scale. Or whatever.

I can totally understand, I don’t like rooting & rutting around for things. A tote keeps things dry …. Not like an Ammon box but dry enough.

1 hour ago, GRiver said:

I have something similar, it a small cooler with locking lid. It fits snug between the seats, call it my dry box. Keeps flares, phone, etc anything I want to protect.

I can totally understand, I don’t like rooting & rutting around for things. A tote keeps things dry …. Not like an Ammon box but dry enough.

Exactly!

This update was a total pain. So the previous owner used an unknown adhesive and glued rubber gym flooring to the bow cap. It was falling apart. And crumbling and bubbling. So I stripped it off scraped and sanded the adhesive off. The bow cap is in rough shape. But the boats 60 years old. In the future I’ll get a sheet of aluminum and replace it. For now it got a couple coats of etching primer and flat black tractor and implement paint. And remounted everything. The corner caps in the back I chemically stripped and sanded satin finish. As far as I can tell this boat has been gray, red, white, and teal lol. I also gave the inside a scrub and vacuumed the carpet really well the one lake being on a gravel road has made it a mess. I think I’m don’t with cosmetics at this point. I’m getting tired of trying to make it something it’s not haha. Great lil boat though.

Nice work. Little things like that not only make it look better, but make it more resistant to the elements.

27 minutes ago, gim said:

Nice work. Little things like that not only make it look better, but make it more resistant to the elements.

Thank you. That’s a great point

Yeah, that’s a great little improvement. You don’t need pretty up there, just secure and functional.

I made a little add to mine this week. My dad has two on his and with all the electric only lakes I load at, I am standing on the trailer a bunch. It’s just a matter of time before I slip off and he had a spare to give me so it’s a no brainer. I initially put it on the other side and when I went to step on it Wednesday the trolling motor was in the way… So it’s swapped. And I use the spare tire as a hand hold when I’m on the trailer anyway so there we go.

12 minutes ago, casts_by_fly said:

Yeah, that’s a great little improvement. You don’t need pretty up there, just secure and functional.

I made a little add to mine this week. My dad has two on his and with all the electric only lakes I load at, I am standing on the trailer a bunch. It’s just a matter of time before I slip off and he had a spare to give me so it’s a no brainer. I initially put it on the other side and when I went to step on it Wednesday the trolling motor was in the way… So it’s swapped. And I use the spare tire as a hand hold when I’m on the trailer anyway so there we go.

I like that! I kinda have the same issue my trailer ya have to be kinda on the money to load the boat so I have to walk out and hook the winch on and winch it up as well. I need to look into making something like that! Looks great man.