how to stay tied up to bridge or columms?

[eddieb]

go to this and ask about drilling holes,[email protected],if caught you may have to pay for 22 state workers to stand and watch 1 poor worker patch hole!!!LOL

[speckfinder]

Were not talking about carving Mt Rushmore. Next time your by a bridge go look at the pillars. They are far from perfect in any sense of the word. They are loaded with blemishes, dings, cracks, etc. Some of you need to get your rose colored glasses off and go outside into the real world.

still illegal

[grego]

Some good ideas here. Thank you. I wad up a rope and try to get it to swing around the column and back to me, but I think putting some type of float on the end would work much better.

[Nightprowler]

Use 2 ton epoxy to stick a flat piece of stainless steel, 1/2" thick X 4" X 4" with a 1/2" threaded bolt hole to the bridge, just below the water surface one day as you pass by. Next time out fishing bring your 1/2" eye bolt that screws into the matching bolt hole with your anchor rope attached. Being under the water it will be your very own secret tie off.

[skeetbum]

Sorry to be so lame in response time Hanr. The clip I use is an anchor clip or bow clip for a light boat. Not being climbing savvy, I think we're on the same page. Gotta be careful not to bean yourself or the boat, but if they aren't too big in diameter it's pretty easy. Must be, I can do it.

[gabowman]

After reading all the responses I thought of something you could try that should work. Take a 10' stick of rebar and bend it into the shape of a fish hook. If the concrete piling is 3' thick then make the hook with a 3.5'-4' gap in it. With a constant current it should stay on the piling by the force of the weight of the boat in a down current. Although, by anchoring this way I feel the current is gonna constantly be slapping your boat into the piling unless you had 2 hooks to pull yourself tight against the piling from both ends of the boat (using bumpers of course:rolleyes. I'd be looking for a better way to anchor under the bridge to stay OFF the piling myself to avoid all that constant bumping. I'd be looking overhead and the use of ropes.:o

[azslabber]

Very interesting guys,lol.No bridges in Arizona near the water,lol.Oh yea,no water.

[beenfishin?]

go to upstream side of pilar and toss anchor on OPOSITE side of piller. Let the current ease you down your side of the pillar. The rope being half way round the pillar will create enough resistance to keep anchor from slipping. When boat is in position, toss another anchor out the back to keep boat from fishtailing.

[fish_4_all]

Well whatever you come up with don't do it here. Anchor to a bridge and go to jail, we can't even go out on any dams anymore to fish or even site see. State highway bridges have, or at least had a 100 yards leeway that you couldn't anchor at all. There were a lot of really nice boats, trucks and fishing gear in the state auctions from confiscated gear for the first 3-4 years after 9-11.

But Washington regulators are anal and that is being nice. Ask your local fish and wildlife about it and they may even have funds to place temporary or permenant anchors in key locations to protect the fishing industry from other anal regulators that see one guy put a hole in a bridge column and get fishing within 100 yards of a bridge banned all together.

[anchorpuller]

I'm not sure of how your bridge is... The one's that I fish under vary in height to reach. Sometimes easy, sometimes almost impossible.

This isn't a very good picture, but gives you an idea of how I do it.

I use a couple of packages of the cheap nylon rope you can get at Kmart or Walmart...anywhere really. You can tie a piece of noodle with anything for weight on the end to throw it over the bridge... or just wad it up and heave ho. I catch it with my oar from underneath and tie a slip knot to tighten the rope to the bridge. Then the free end of the rope I tie to a cleat on the boat.

Do front and back.... have a ball fishing.