Just picked up my mail for the first time in some weeks, so I am a bit late on this one.
I you are thinking of fishing bigger lakes where you will be drifting you could consider getting a drouge. This is a small parachute like device that is attached to the side of the boat. The idea is that as the boat is drifting the drouge will slow you down to a very slow crawl. Depending on where you place the drouge it can also be very valuable in getting the boat to drift striaght so that you can fish the flies all the eay in with two people in the boat. I would only use the drogue is small winds to start off with so that you get used to it and then progress. Watch out for snags in moderate winds on big lakes as the side of the boat will be pulled lower and you are risking sinking if the waves are too high. All in all this is a very safe methood of slowing a boat down to a really slow crawl and still covering some ground while you are fishing. Kev -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rob Blomquist Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 6:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [VFB] Setting up a boat for flyfishing On Sunday 03 August 2003 03:59 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The one thing you don't want to do is ever anchor a boat by the stern. If a > larger boat comes along the wake will swamp you and the boat will sink and > you may noit survive either. > > I have been in the Coast Guard for 14 years and can't begin to tell you of > the number of rescues, sinkings and drownings that have happen because a > boat was anchored by the stern. DON'T DO IT !!! But on a small lake, with only electrics, or small gas motors the wakes are not large enough to swamp a boat. And the only way to fish chironomids or other still water patterns slowly is by double anchoring. And this is not double anchoring for an overnight stay, this is bad double anchoring without much scope on the anchor lines, to keep the boat stiller than it would be without the anchors. Thanks for the reminder, as we may need to remember this on bigger lakes, since double anchoring is quite common for fly fishing. -- In my family there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. Norman Maclean --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.502 / Virus Database: 300 - Release Date: 7/18/03 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.502 / Virus Database: 300 - Release Date: 7/18/03
