Hello, I picked up a small 8ft fishing pram recently. I have bow and Stern anchors. Each anchor has 50 feet of line. How do people manage their anchor lines in the boat? Right now, each line is flaked into a rubbermaid bin about the size of a large shoebox and is then fed through the lock and pulley. Is there a better option? Thanks!
anchor line management (small pram)
- Thread starter jonboy
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I use the "Rubbermaid" bins for anchor line management in my pram. When I'm done for the day, I pop our the Scotty pulleys and put them with the anchor into the bin, stow them in the bed of my truck. I do, from time to time, inspect the knots to the anchor for wear. I find it's helpful to pull all the line out of the bin and place it back into the bin from the tag end sort of layering it back which seems to almost eliminate tangles when lower the anchor.
Bambooflyguy
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50’…..that’s a lot of line for most lakes. I have a 25’ bow line and a 20’ stern line. But I anchor in fairly shallow areas just to indicator fish. Being an old carpenter, I coil my line like an extension cord.
Honest unhelpful answer: in lakes, I leave it piled on the bottom of the boat.
In rivers, it stays coiled in a bucket.
In rivers, it stays coiled in a bucket.
Coiled in small square buckets.
I wrap mine around a straight stick figure eight style like a kite string…
I used those plastic extensions cord wraps to hold anchor line..
Nowadays I fish from a Hobie kayak and never use an anchor to hold a position, even on windy days. Between rudder control and forward/reverse drive it's effortless to hold position and orientation.
Nowadays I fish from a Hobie kayak and never use an anchor to hold a position, even on windy days. Between rudder control and forward/reverse drive it's effortless to hold position and orientation.
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