Anchor Warning?

[Pete Collin]

Hello All,

 

I want to experiment with fishing in deep water under anchor.  What I think about is how any passing boat would have cannon balls down, presenting a big hazard of tangling.  is there some common boaters' warning (like a flag of some kind) that tells passers by that an anchor line might be under them? 

[Pete Collin]

Hello All,

 

I want to experiment with fishing in deep water under anchor.  What I think about is how any passing boat would have cannon balls down, presenting a big hazard of tangling.  is there some common boaters' warning (like a flag of some kind) that tells passers by that an anchor line might be under them? 

[Great Lakes Lure Maker]

How deep do you plan to anchor? How much rope per ft of water. A bouy at the surface should indicate your anchored.

[dick black]

Pete, Nevermind about the  guys cannonballs, huw about all the guys outhere pulling multiple long copper rigs? Your not going to make a lot of friends. Just a thought,  Good luck!

[Pete Collin]

What I hear is that you plan on a 3:1 ratio for an anchor line.  So the deeper you go, the greater the chance of a foulup.  Which leads to this post.

[bailey]

If your anchored you have the right of way other boats should avoid you anyway . I've never had a problem trolling around anchored boats or fishing while anchored. I fish Erie mostly and it gets hectic out there at times.

[Bosun Cowboy]

Just use your trolling motor that's all we do. Anchors just a PITA!

[John Kelley]

Throw a diver down buoy out, and they will stay clear of you, then!

[Pete Collin]

Now that I think of it, using the pythagorean theorem, I figure that if i am in 100 FOW and anchor with 300 feet of  line, a passing troller would have to get within 282 feet of me in order to snag up.  That seems pretty close.  Most guys give me way more space than that. 

Edited July 15, 2015 by Pete Collin

[GAMBLER]

Don't worry Pete, not many people fish that water off Sandy.  Fishing lakers is a sin to most.  I get sh*t for doing it all the time. 

[lost a lure]

The day shape for a vessel at anchor is a black ball

[Thun]

An anchor ball floating in front of your bow would alert me that your at anchor. And you could use an anchor retrieval system to float your anchor when you're done fishing. Hand lining a heavy anchor 100' down could be a back breaker.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40nz7HVwcOw

[whaler1]

Don't worry Pete, not many people fish that water off Sandy. Fishing lakers is a sin to most. I get sh*t for doing it all the time.

And a lot of respect as well. Brian is a great fisherman and arguably the best laker fisherman out there. His success is only overshadowed by his willingness to share his knowledge and tactics freely to anyone that asks.

There are a lot more people fishing lakers than ever and Brians success and generosity has a lot to do with it.

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[bout time]

3 to 1 is not enough anchor line. General rule is 7 to 1 on calm seas and 10 to 1 for medium seas. I'll be the first to say it can be done with less but 3 to 1 is a little low

[Pete Collin]

Even if I nudge along the bottom a bit, that would suit my purposes.

[GAMBLER]

Thanks for the kind words Bill. 3 to 1 with the ball is what we used in Erie last summer to fish perch in 75 fow. It was a two foot chop both days and it held fine. Chain on the anchor is key.

[jimski2]

Vertical trolling or jig fishing is very effective now. Walleye anglers are stopping their boats and casting jigging Rapala type lures over the transom to pull up major fish they marked on their graph. Kavajecz has a video on this method where he won a $78,000 boat last fall. Expect in the future a lot of boats may not be trolling.

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[Pete Collin]

Do I take it that the chain is so the rope won't fray?

[mudflat]

The chain is to help your anchor flukes to dig into the bottom and hold better

 

You want to  be pulling sideways on the anchor and not upwards

[Knotlost]

No chain is there for weight, you need chain to cause an anchor to function correctly. Without chain your boat will lift the anchor because of the action of the boat.

 

How much chain depends on size of anchor, rope, length of rope, boat, color of boat, and how mean your dad was to you growing up. Big debates on it anyway, but the rule that can be argued with is there is never to much chain. The length of chain rule for casual lake fishermen can be half the length of your boat, and that will work.

 

Remember these rule are for anchoring and not moving, in any weather, sleeping etc, not jig fishing where you don't care.

[Sk8man]

A six to ten foot section of heavy duty chain attached at the anchor end will help set the anchor into the bottom and  assist in keeping the angle of the anchor rope right too not allowing the anchor to slide on bottom. You could get some of the  small yellow and red colored plastic anchor line buoys to attach to the visible section of the anchor line above surface at the boat end

Edited July 15, 2015 by Sk8man

[ray koziatek]

mud flat had the chain need  correct,,15 ft is what we use in the keys , shorter will work but 15 seems to be that majic length with strong tides and waves..