Anchor

I need an anchor for PA Mostly fishing in the river but my bot is 14' deep v just need something to hold and don't what to take 5 different anchor of even by them to try which one works the best

Don't know how much of a current you'll be fighting, but here's a river anchor that BPS carries. Walmart usually carries them also:
https://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/...1_45253_200003001_200000000_200003000_200-3-1

do I need an anchor that digs in?

I use a 12# mushroom anchor, and where I fish is pretty much a mud bottom, and on windy days the boat will still tend to drift occasionally. A heavier mushroom anchor may work for you, but can't say for sure as I've never fished a river current.

Any river fishermen out there that can add some input!?

I prefer river anchors myself, and I fish mainly lakes & reservoirs. Since you should have 2 anchors, you can always use them both off the bow. In swift current don't anchor off the transom. I'd get a couple #12 river anchors.

Also, I use 2' of chain off the anchors and attach the rope to it, it'll save a lot of abrasion on the rope from underwater debris.

ST

I have 2 different styles of anchors. You really should have 2 anchors and I figure with 2 styles it allows me to match the bottom better. I use a slip ring fluke style and a river anchor
Slip Ring

River Anchor


I have 6 feet of chain on the slip ring anchor to maximize the anchors digging effect.

The biggest thing is to have a high line to depth ratio. I usually use a minimum of 4:1, if not more. It helps it set better, and dig in tighter.

You do not want to anchor with a Fluke Style (Danforth) anchor in most PA rivers unless you want to donate some structure to the river - we have freestone and limestone rivers here and they will not release your anchor once it get under the rocks


For fast water consider using a chain system or half moon anchor when using it on rocks or gravel bottoms

Columba River anchor is the best style I have ever use for moving water. I will try to find a link. I make mine and are real simple.
WFFF

I use the mushroom style fishing the New River. I've been in some pretty swift water and didn't have a problem. As bassboy1 mentioned the amount of line you have out helps ALOT. Sears 1232 flat bottom.

Use one of dem dar red nek ankers.You know,a cinder block with 3 feet of loggin chain and some dat green clothes line.


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I can remember using 5 pound coffee cans (back when coffee came in 5 pound cans) and filling them with cement and sticking a large eye bolt in the wet cement to use for anchors. Some had chain, most didn't.

:-k that sounds like a good idea for my shallow lakes.

ihave used the gallon coffee cans with cement for years works good on a light johnboat

dedawg1149 said:

ihave used the gallon coffee cans with cement for years works good on a light johnboat

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we use to use them all the time but drilled 4 3/4 in holes in the can at the bottom and then ran 2 3/4 x12"pices of rebar though the cans then filled them with cement

dedawg1149 said:

ihave used the gallon coffee cans with cement for years works good on a light johnboat

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Mine weighs about 40 to 50 pounds in it's current configuration.I recently measured my jon thinking it looked smaller than a 1030.It measured 27" across the bottom on the outside and 32 across the top rails.It measured 9'11" long.I think my boat shrank from all the warm weather. :LMFAO:

ben2go said:

dedawg1149 said:

ihave used the gallon coffee cans with cement for years works good on a light johnboat

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Mine weighs about 40 to 50 pounds in it's current configuration.I recently measured my jon thinking it looked smaller than a 1030.It measured 27" across the bottom on the outside and 32 across the top rails.It measured 9'11" long.I think my boat shrank from all the warm weather. :LMFAO:

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you might want to chack the plug it might have diarrhea you know the sguirts :LMFAO: :LMFAO:

Here's an interesting anchor I recently ran across, the author speaks pretty highly of it too.

https://www.catfishing.tv/Main/tips-section/odwcanchor.html

ST

Neat link! Basically it's styled after what's referred to as an Old Fashioned nchor. The rebar or round stock will work well, but I'd have a nice sharp knife handy to cut the line if that thing ever gets stuck and you can't retreive it :wink:

Waterwings said:

I'd have a nice sharp knife handy to cut the line if that thing ever gets stuck and you can't retreive it :wink:

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And I'd say odds are "fair" that might happen at some point in time. On the up-side, making it out of rebar would be cheap of you can weld your own.......might see another future project :wink:

ST