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Post by Daz on Sept 8, 2012 5:49:21 GMT
how do you fish bottom baits when your anchored from the bow ?
does the bait fish from behined you with a bow in the line ?
ive always fished from the stern.......but my kayak moves about to muchso im gonna try fish while anchored from the stern.
the Trent has a good flow and is 25+ ft deep in places
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Post by Izzetafox on Sept 8, 2012 7:54:11 GMT
Daz,
The way I have been doing it is using two anchors, I drop the stern anchor upstream on the trolley and towards the middle of the river a bit. I let out quite a bit of warp then drift down and paddle into the bank.
My second warp is threaded through the grab handle cord on the bows. For this I use a mud anchor made by putting a fence post eye bolt through the drain hole of a 6" plant pot I then get a bag of ready mixed dry concrete from B&Q and fill it upand add water. Take off the plastic and there you have it.
I drop the mud anchor close to the bankand have a shorter warp. By getting the tension right I have the bows facing upstream of the stern at about 10 o'clock as you look across the river.
I have found this way the current tends to keep you fairly stable. The wider the angle between the two anchors the better but make sure you have a good length of warp to the bow anchor.
I have a 'buoy' on the warp of the stern mud anchor which means when I want to retrieve it I let out warp on both anchors, Paddle towards the mud anchor andI can lift it straight into the kayak catching the warp via the buoy and then paddle up to the bow anchor and retrieve.
It sounds complicated but once done it is great and very stable.
Terry
AS WITH ALL ANCHORING EXERCISE CARE AND MAKE SURE THAT THE CONDITIONS ARE SAFE IF IN DOUBT DON'T DO IT!
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Post by Daz on Sept 8, 2012 8:31:32 GMT
Daz, The way I have been doing it is using two anchors, I drop the stern anchor upstream on the trolley and towards the middle of the river a bit. I let out quite a bit of warp then drift down and paddle into the bank. My second warp is threaded through the grab handle cord on the bows. For this I use a mud anchor made by putting a fence post eye bolt through the drain hole of a 6" plant pot I then get a bag of ready mixed dry concrete from B&Q and fill it upand add water. Take off the plastic and there you have it. I drop the mud anchor close to the bankand have a shorter warp. By getting the tension right I have the bows facing upstream of the stern at about 10 o'clock as you look across the river. I have found this way the current tends to keep you fairly stable. The wider the angle between the two anchors the better but make sure you have a good length of warp to the bow anchor. I have a 'buoy' on the warp of the stern mud anchor which means when I want to retrieve it I let out warp on both anchors, Paddle towards the mud anchor andI can lift it straight into the kayak catching the warp via the buoy and then paddle up to the bow anchor and retrieve. It sounds complicated but once done it is great and very stable. Terry AS WITH ALL ANCHORING EXERCISE CARE AND MAKE SURE THAT THE CONDITIONS ARE SAFE IF IN DOUBT DON'T DO IT! you will have to show me one day Terry  |
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Post by Izzetafox on Sept 8, 2012 8:36:21 GMT
No problem I will try and do a drawing when I get back from work.
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Post by esoxuk on Sept 8, 2012 9:46:47 GMT
how do you fish bottom baits when your anchored from the bow ? does the bait fish from behined you with a bow in the line ? ive always fished from the stern.......but my kayak moves about to muchso im gonna try fish while anchored from the stern. [glow=red,2,300]the Trent has a good flow and is 25+ ft deep in places[/glow] I know that place... be very carefull there as the suicidal backwards facing rowers really shift through that section in sometimes largish groups, in an anchored kayak you are very vulnerable. I tend to clip up to bushes, reeds or overhanging trees using one of these www.agmdiscountfishing.co.uk/brush-anchor-kayaks/boats-p-268.html then fish from the safety of the margin. |
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Post by Daz on Sept 8, 2012 10:56:26 GMT
i have one of them tree anchors.....trouble is if anchored up in the margins the boats dont see you and do not slow down and nearly tip you out.
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Post by Izzetafox on Sept 8, 2012 11:14:20 GMT
When anchored I am rarely more than 15 feet from the bank well away from the skullers I am more often than not still inside the tree line.
As you say Daz the only downside being that many of the 'gin palaces' don't see you and just chug through without the courtesy throttle back that many of the bargees tend to do.
The great thing with anchoring this close is that stick float fishing is perfect and you can feed the line very accurately.
As for the rowers I am told that standard practice is just to shout 'BEHIND' or similar.
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Post by Daz on Sept 8, 2012 11:37:36 GMT
or just OI  |
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Post by fenboystu on Sept 12, 2012 19:50:14 GMT
Oi get orf my land ;D ;D
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Post by philpot on Sept 20, 2012 7:48:45 GMT
I never anchor from the stern as most of my fishing is in the Humber and I like to see what is heading downstream towards me-----dead cow, oil drum or tree etc etc.
Why don't you fish uptide, exactly the same as at sea when bottom fishing, it works on the Humber so I would have thought it would have worked on the Trent or similar.
Phil
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