Hey Joe, SteelieBoy is right, go with that setup on anchor. When I had my Outcast 8 I bought the pulley from Wright Marine and used Ubolts to set it to underside of frame (where your seat bolts onto). I then bought the anchor release out of Cabela's (It is grey and has a pulley in back and a cleat in front) and mounted that with Ubolts on the forward part of frame. (Make sure you either take out old release off your current outcast anchor system or directline the rope around the pulley and not thread it through the current system). Mine worked great while I had it. Yes, you're 12 ft outcast should handle those drifts alot better then an 8/9 ft, you have more boat on the water then them. But, if you ran the style of boats Steelieboy or I are currently running, it'd be like night and day. First, ours are designed for actual whitewater use and second ours are designed to hold ALOT more weight then the outcasts (my boat was designed as a packmule cat for whitewater trips). Yours is a good boat, nothing wrong with it, just stating that those extra couple feet make a world of difference. I have a 9 ft cat and mine is very stable to stand in and I even will anchor in swift stretches and stand up with no worry of tipping over (It has a straight hull with gradual upcurving ends instead of a rocker hull). I myself watched where I'd anchor in my outcast 8, and if I fished from it, I stayed in my seat, no standing. You can also fish from the boat on slow stretches. I actually caught a damned nice King Jack backbouncing from my old outcast on a slow drift on the Hump a few years back (talk about fun, it turned my boat around I thought I had a 40lb'er on). Just know your restrictions and never try to conquer anything you're not sure about.

tight lines........Jerry