Deep sixd anchor
Saturday, June 21st, 2008Spare anchor? It takes a special sense of humor to appreciate tossing untied anchors overboard, but once you get it, it isn’t so bad. I went fishing with my 20+ year old son one day for pink salmon on a river 85 miles distant from home,i.e. we went through a great deal of bother to get there and get launched. The tide was going out, and there were two choices; drift or anchor. We choose to anchor. I had cleaned the boat - everything was neat, tidy and in place just the way I like it. The fifty foot anchor rope was untied and coiled; seamanlike and marlinspike. I was putzing with the rigging on my pole, when I heard a splash and glanced over at my son.
He was watching the anchor rope uncoil at a very fast pace - and when he saw the tip of the line zip over the side of the boat he had one of the funniest expressions Ive ever seen on anyones face. Spare anchor?
Nah…don’t believe in them. Spare rope? Nah…why would you need a spare rope without an anchor to tie it to. Long story short, we spent 30 minutes drifting…which is a poor word to describe the rapidity we would experience ripping along with the tide, through lines of anchored boats, down the river. But theres an upside to the story. When you don’t catch any fish, you don’t clean any fish - and the boat stays nice & clean.
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