Better yet is to keep a float/ boat fender tied to the boat end of the anchor line. Then if you need to make a fast exit, just throw the line off the cleat and go. Come back after the situation is over, pick up your float and keep on fishing. Planning ahead is the trick. Cheaper than cutting lines and losing anchors, plus those cut lines may kill the next person who comes along and wraps it in their prop.
Never, ever anchor by the stern, always keep your bow facing out.
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just make sure you have a sharp knife to cut the lines if crap hits the fan! Better to lose a reef anchor than a boat, or worse.
Better yet is to keep a float/ boat fender tied to the boat end of the anchor line. Then if you need to make a fast exit, just throw the line off the cleat and go. Come back after the situation is over, pick up your float and keep on fishing. Planning ahead is the trick. Cheaper than cutting lines and losing anchors, plus those cut lines may kill the next person who comes along and wraps it in their prop.
Capt. Larry Teuton
Cracker Built Custom Boats
“Ships are the nearest things to dreams that hands have ever made.” -Robert N. Rose
Larry is 100% right. When I grew up fishing farm ponds, we’d anchor the bow and the stern (jon boats) if the wind was tossing us around. Kept us nice and stable. I suppose in a place with 0 current, it’s no big deal.
If you ever were to lose the bow anchor, for whatever reason, you do not want to have the stern anchor to deal with. I’ve had rope hung in the prop (rookie stupidity) of the outboard before in the Tailrace, scary as all get-out, especially when it’s cold outside and you’re 2" from taking a huge amount of water over the transom. I managed to unwind it via the flywheel, thankfully.
Had that been an anchor line, and I had nothing to cut it with, I may have gone down. Snagged anchor lines pull the transom down a lot more than a rope on the prop.
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Thanks for the help is it good to get on the rocks. Do you catch a lot of fish that way
Before one feels elated and makes planes he must secure his “fish”
Maybe if you have monkey grip feet. I’d take my chances snorkeling and trying to spear a fish rather than slipping on eel crap slick rocks loaded with razer sharp shells… I have a buddy who still sports a rather nasty scar from walking the jetties in the 80’s. He does have some good pictures of some rather large sheep head he caught back then.