I need to get a rocking chair style anchor for my trips on the Columbia. I have a 17 1/2' sled with a windshield. How heavy of an anchor will I need? I plan on having 300' of anchor rope.

Harley,

GI Joes has one that is 28 lbs that will be fine. I have a 19 ft North River windshield boat, and it holds me fine. You'll need to get 4 ft of chain and connection hardware. Connect the chain to the bottom of the anchor, and then use zip ties to connect the chain to the top end of the anchor. Tie the rope to the end of the chain.

With the rocking chair anchors, weight isn't the issue - width and length of the tines is. With the 28 lb'r, I've anchored all the way up into Bonneville, and held just fine.

If you want more information, PM me, and I could shoot a digital pic of mine and send it to you.

One more thing, unless you''re sturgeon fishing in deep water, you won't need the 300 feet of rope. For hogline salmon fishing 200 feet will be plenty, and you will only rarely use all of it. More rope will just get in your way.

When I lived down there, I kept two ropes, 400 feet for sturgeon, and 200 feet for salmon/steelhead.

Thanks Silver Hilton. Sturgeon fishing is exactly what I'll be doing first, that's why I was going with the 300'. I guess I'll end up getting a shorter one for Springers.

Oh, don't worry about a shorter one. You just need to know what you're going to do with the extra rope when you're salmon fishing. When you anchor up, unless you're first and let ALL the rope out, which is a pain, you're going to have extra rope. If there are folks around you, you're going to want to throw the buoy over and drift out if, I mean when, you hook one. The extra rope then is a problem, if you don't coil it up and tie it up. Big zip ties can be handy for that.

You can also get some plastic coated chain eithr there or at West Marine (its just before G.I.JOES in the same complex)Its a bit spendy,seems like maybe $20-$25 for a 4 ft section.Sure saves the side of the boat though.

hey, how does the hog line worK??