So anchoring can be dangerous. I feel I'm experienced and I'm confident with it but every year I seem to learn of a new hazard. This year I learned its not that hard to catch your own anchor line when the tide changes.
Most often on a change my boat will swing around in an arc - perfect! Sometimes though it seems the current slacks right off and twice this year we've drifted back and got hung up on our own damn anchor. Does this happen to anyone else? What are the warning signs and how to you prevent it? Easy answer is if your drifting back and not swinging in a nice arc fire up the motor and move yourself away from the anchor assuming you know where abouts it is. Both times though i didn't really notice it was happening until it was too late.
1st time buddy reeled in the anchor rope and we got the gear free. That was a struggle.
2nd time no chance I was reeling it in so I pulled the anchor and got lucky the anchor puller knocked my gear free and I lost nothing except valuable fishing time.
Hoping I never experience this again it is a giant pain in the rear.
Most often on a change my boat will swing around in an arc - perfect! Sometimes though it seems the current slacks right off and twice this year we've drifted back and got hung up on our own damn anchor. Does this happen to anyone else? What are the warning signs and how to you prevent it? Easy answer is if your drifting back and not swinging in a nice arc fire up the motor and move yourself away from the anchor assuming you know where abouts it is. Both times though i didn't really notice it was happening until it was too late.
1st time buddy reeled in the anchor rope and we got the gear free. That was a struggle.
2nd time no chance I was reeling it in so I pulled the anchor and got lucky the anchor puller knocked my gear free and I lost nothing except valuable fishing time.
Hoping I never experience this again it is a giant pain in the rear.