PSA: milk crates are not effective rod holders

Here at Grand Isle for ride the bull. A couple of those guys are fishing on Elmer's Island. There's a bunch of white trout and a few specs here hitting shiners on the surface. We're catching them and also catching crabs to use for bait tomorrow. I figure let me throw something out with a piece of cut white trout and see if I can't get something big on the bottom. So I rig my pen battle up with a piece of cut white trout, casted out and I put it in my milk crate that I use in my kayak as a rod holder. I put my 8 pound anchor in in the crate thinking that will be enough weight to keep anything big enough from pulling it over and pulling my rod out of the holder.

Well you can probably see where this is going.

I go to run the crab traps. I turn around look at my milk crate it's tipped over my pen battle, rod, everything is gone.

Worst of all, it was a birthday gift for my wife.

My strategy: buy a new one really quick and don't tell my wife shite about how tough one she bought me for my birthday got lost.

Please learn from my mistakes and don't let this happen to you.