Ancors...

[JohnnyD]

What are people using and what do you think the benefit is of the type you use? What type of yak do you use and where do you fish?

Where you fish, are you concerned about drifting and the anchor dragging into deeper water, thus causing a potential safety issue?

Just like anything fishing, I've heard polar opposite reviews about each type of anchor and wondering what the folks in here use.

Personally, I've been looking into something like this:
Bass Pro Shops Grapnel Anchor Kit

[Sweetwater]

JohnnyD, just remember the places you fish are mostly sandy bottom. That requires a different anchor type than those fishing rockier bottoms. Don't have the answer (since I don't use an anchor), but keep that in mind.

[JohnnyD]

Absolutely. A fluke style anchor is probably the best choice for holding on the sandy bottom in current. For safety's sake, I can't imagine I'd be anchoring up when yakking off the Race - I need to buy a drift sock for out there.

Places I'd probably anchor would be in the spots we schoolie fish. I also plan on making an attempt at a little bit of meat fishing.

[Rmarsh]

Johnny: I have been using a simple lead weight to anchor my sit in kayak for a while now but just purchased a 3# folding anchor similar to the one you show in your post.

I will be using a trolley system to deploy it near the cockpit and move it to bow or stern. A short length of bungee will be used to allow for some stretch, and a carbiner will allow me to disconect from it. With a small float I can return and reconnect.
I will have a rescue type knife on my PFD, in case of trouble. Adding a short lenght of chain to the top of the anchor will help it dig in to sandy bottoms.

I fish some rocks offshore and usually anchor up on the lee side.
I'll also be using it on slow moving streams and ponds.

[wheresmy50]

Definitely use a trolley. The first point of attachment needs to be at the front or back, not the side.

I use a 10lb (or 15 can't remember) plastic coated mushroom from Walmart. I didn't like the folding kayak anchors at all. They pull up an ocean of weeds on weedy bottoms and don't hold in the wind and waves on sandy bottoms, but I didn't use rhode (sp?) either. The mushroom works perfectly and costs less. also, you don't have to fold it and unfold it, and the rope gets wrapped around the tines - PIA.

[JohnnyD]

Originally Posted by wheresmy50

Definitely use a trolley. The first point of attachment needs to be at the front or back, not the side.

I use a 10lb (or 15 can't remember) plastic coated mushroom from Walmart. I didn't like the folding kayak anchors at all. They pull up an ocean of weeds on weedy bottoms and don't hold in the wind and waves on sandy bottoms, but I didn't use rhode (sp?) either. The mushroom works perfectly and costs less. also, you don't have to fold it and unfold it, and the rope gets wrapped around the tines - PIA.

I'd definitely use a trolley. Pretty cheap and easy to install.

Interesting about the 10 -15lb mushroom anchor. Sounds like a brute force method. I don't know if I want to deal with that much extra weight. I'd rather bring a 4lb anchor that weeds us, as opposed to a 10-15lb one that doesn't.