Whats The Best Anchor

[Spot82]

27lb wow, is it you or Sean with the muscles?? As you say 20lb will be heaps i use a 15lb on my KC!

Ian

Ps. Doesn't PE Tackle make the Worlds Best Anchor???

Haha yeh those hooks are farking strong! they anchor pretty good, attaching them to an anchor chain might be a bit difficult tho

Asking who has the muscles? Silly question, haven't you seen the pics of Sean in the reports... he is lucky to weigh 50kg ringing wet I think he has a 15lb in the Stabi.

Anthony

[bigjimg]

Gday Brett,I use a 12lb Delta,don't need much else in the bay.Got a Mooloolaba Pick for the rough country outside but have never bothered to anchor up as yet.We always use the parachute,the current more often than not is running.Got around 6m of 8mm shortlink connected to both and have anchor swivels attached as well.Jim

[littlemac]

thanks for the info guys,
i just need to get another boat now for all the different types of anchors out their, those coopers look good.

thanks again

cheers

brett

[TREVELLY]

I use the coopers with 6m of chain and a zip tie - works okay for me on 6.25m centre cab offshore.

[finding_time]

Just dont use anything to expensive!!! ALL anchors will get stuck in the reef at some stage, as more often than not it the chain that is doing the sticking!!! This is the big problem flash expensive anchors, it's going to cause grief when you have to cut that line!! I've used a 15 lb tripped plough for years and only lost one when my anchor line rubbed through during a really rough night! The best things about the tripped plough is it workes really well in sand, mud , gravel , rubble, coral reef, rocky reef so you can anchor very accurately where ever your fishing and accurately anchoring is the BIG secret!!!

Ian

[Mr__Bean]

You wouldnt use this for night time mooring though would you Darren? I would be worried that it would shear the tie and pull on the change of tide from the fluke end and dislodge, but for daytime use monitoring it its a good idea.


Cheers

A good point, but no I do use it at night and it does hold in the rough. But I do use a couple of large tie-wraps that are wrapped around a couple of times each.

Others I have seen use very very large diameter leader but for me the big tie-wraps are much easier to reset if you do have to power it out of a snag.

If we are bedding down or anchoring in very strong current then we put a d-shackle on it for the night, but only if conditions require it. We keep a couple of d-shackles on the boat for this purpose.

Hope this helps.

- Darren