Anchor ropes and trout
My anchor rope must be a trout magnet. Yesterday, a frisky 18" 'bow takes a chironomid suspended at about 13 feet down and decides to fight around the canoe instead of swimming off. After two minutes it runs between the anchor rope and the canoe so I decide to lift the anchor and the indicator just sits there so I figure it's gone. Nope, still on so I lower the anchor again (i didn't want to drift away from a hot spot!) and continue the battle. Heads for the rope again but in the meantime I figure it's time for the net so I grab the leader to hand line but the middle chironomid snags in the rope and then my finger while trying to free it, but by then the tippet has snapped and trout is gone.
This was not the only time so I can't imagine using two anchors as recommended by some!
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