Has anyone ever dropped an anchor into the water then realize that the other end was not tied down to the boat?

I guess the lesson is to always make sure huh?

Haha

Vic

Or you could have an anchor float attached to the other end. They come in handy when you need to untie the rope when fighting a big fish, or when the rope comes untied in heavy current.

Or you could have an anchor float attached to the other end. They come in handy when you need to untie the rope when fighting a big fish, or when the rope comes untied and heavy current.

Yea I thought of attaching a float after I saw the nylon rope sinking down past my reach lol.  Need a longer rope also haha

Vic

It's about as common as leaving your plug out before launching.

Mine stays tied to the bow eye at all times but I have on an occasion lost one due to the fact my nephew's fancy Triton has these cute little cleats where you zigzag your rope through it. It was said to hold tighter the more pressure that is applied but they didn't say what happens when it calm and no pressure is applied.

But I now know what happens when no pressure is applied  

I know what happens when you drop an anchor into water deeper than the length of anchor rope you've got tied on.   ;D

It's about as common as leaving your plug out before launching.

Been there, done that. :-[

Never more than once, not at least the same one

Yep...ive done it a few times...and the plug thing a few times...

Never droped an anchor nor forgot the plug. But i did get my anchor stuck in some structure i was trying to anchor up on. A sunken barge from back in the cypress harvesting days on Brick lake. It was the only thing I hooked up on that day. Lost the anchor.

Haven't dropped it in untied but had it untie while I was fishing once. I just happened to glance over and noticed there was way more line than there should be in the water. lol. Luckily the line was longer than the 8 ft of water i was in so most of the line was floating and I could troll over and get my anchor back.

Never droped an anchor nor forgot the plug. But i did get my anchor stuck in some structure i was trying to anchor up on. A sunken barge from back in the cypress harvesting days on Brick lake. It was the only thing I hooked up on that day. Lost the anchor.

I just bought my old boat 3/31/07 so I haven't had it very long, but 4-5 weeks ago I went one Sunday during Church, we had a guest speaker I wasn't crazy about, so I was asking for trouble. First thing to go wrong was the 30amp fuse blew for my TM. I redid it with a 40amp circuit breaker. I get in an area where the bass aren't big but I'm landing 10"ers pretty good. I have no TM so I decide to anchor since the wind is hard and the traffic wakes are hittin' pretty regular. I noticed over the course of an hour or so that I drifted almost 20'. Got to thinking, my rope's not that long. The wind and traffic kept moving me and my mushroom anchor was dragging and accumulated a ton of mud and hung up on something.

I decided to keep fishing for a while and I drifted around in a radius the length of my rope. Came time to leave and I was going to untie it from my rear cleat so I could start my motor and decided to try to pull it in. It was heavy with mud but unhooked from whatever it hung on.

I've been a lurker for a while, but I registered just to reply to this!  Just the other weekend one of my buddies, who tends to be a buffoon, dropped my anchor into the water while we where catfishing above a dam.  Thing is - the anchor was secured to the line via a nice solid snap hook.  >