longbowdave1
Senior Member
I saw a guy that use a 10 foot kength on 1/2 conduit for a stake out pole. He cut in half for ease of transport, and modified a coupling with thumb screw of easy assembly. The bottom end was peaned flat for esae of pushing in place, and he screwed a 1/2" pvc tee fitting on the top for a push down handle. Only about 6$ to make .I paddled and fished from a small canoe (Kay-noe) for a long time and had set-up an anchor system using cam cleats front & back...ran the line through an eye on bow & stern, then could pulled through the cam cleats to adjust. I normally used 4lb dumbbells, but on occasion, used my 8lb mushroom anchors. Honestly, it worked out really well in most conditions and allowed for the best positioning.
Now I have an anchor trolley on my Predator MX...the Yakattack branded one. It works "as advertised" I guess, but so far, I'm not really finding it very enjoyable to use. It is easy to drop and raise anchor (I have a clothesline spool to retract the line, which is cool...you can see lots of videos online about this), but it seems like it is really hard to nail down the right boat position. Current and/or wind tends to rotate the boat in unexpected directions, no matter where I move the trolley. If any of you anchor trolley experts out there have recommendations for how you use yours, I'd love to hear about them!
Btw, I think I'll probably get a long ski pole, or some sort of anchoring stake to use with the trolley in shallow water, like in the post above.