What Type of Anchor Do You Have on Your Boat?

[Downwind]

Use two solid lead bricks. Came out of an industrial stove. Once they stick they don't move. Picking the suckers up is another story.

[kingkrappie]

Select an anchor based on bottom material, sand, mud, rock, etc. Anchor chain makes a big diff, and most cruisers use it to help them hold. I second what bombfixer said about setting the anchor. If not enough slack is in the line, it will bounce along the bottom instead of digging in.

good info drummer and bombfixer, that was probably my problem, I didn't give the anchor any slack to dig in, I hit bottom and tied off, common sense now that I think about it, but common sense has never been my strong suit, and I'm always dragging chains, now I know!

[jimp]

have 2 10lb mushrooms, just got the 2nd one as planning trying the nightstalkin' soon. The one 10lb'r would hold my Tracker PT175 in a cove but the boat would swing around depending on the wind direction with only 1 anchor. Hopefully, the 2 will hold me at night like I've read I need, don't just sit out in a cove during the day, usually trolling.

[irish1]

A gallon bleach jug filled with concrete in the front and 8# mushroom in the rear will hold my canoe rock steady in any wind I have the guts to go out in. Old Town 158 flat bottom without a keel will slide sideways in the slightest breeze without them.

[skiptomylu]

A Chene is the very best IMHO because even in this lake with so much wood which most anchors can get hung up and you just loose it and a Chene is 100% retrievable and holds great.

Not saying you should buy it from Cabela's, just know they sell them so I can link it to let you see this one.
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[river slabs are better]

flat metal railroad track piece. basicaly about a 1 inch thick piece of steel, about the size of a sheet of paper

[Sam]

I use one similar to this one:Cabela's: Slip Ring Mechanical Anchor is 10lbs and holds and releases very well. My boat is a Carolina Skiff and it gets blown around pretty good in the wind - this holds it.

[kb2112]

I use a five pound folding anchor with a three foot piece of chain. It holds in wind and current - but then I'm in a 13 foot kayak. You definitely need some chain to make it lie correctly. I have it tied with a breakaway should it get stuck so I can get it back.

[lcookie]

16 ft Tracker Pro Angler. I use a 25 lb navy up front and a 15 lb in the back. I have been using the spot lock on the I-Pilot so much that I don't even take the anchors in the river anymore.

[fishfinder8]

Chene anchors with a six foot piece of 3/8" chain hold good for me. The big thing with anchors is using enough anchor line. I have always been told to use seven times the depth in anchor line. So for one foot of water you need seven foot of anchor line. I used to fish in Lake Erie and never had a problem setting my anchor. My anchor lines I use are 200' and 250' long