[PtJudeRI]

Does anyone here use a sea anchor or drogue on an overnight trip?? I had one for my smaller boat and we used it sharking a lot, but I haven't bought a bigger one yet, and was thinking it may come in handy. My biggest objectives would be to #1 slow my drift on the chunk and #2 get my bow into the seas for a more comfortable drift as well as to allow the lines to drift off the transom and not off the port or Stbd. rail as they do now.. As an added bonus is it can be a pretty good safety device if the situation calls for it, so thats a plus.

Any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Thanks,

Ryan

This post edited by PtJudeRI 12:14 PM 08/13/2008

 

[KingKeith]

my friend has one and uses it on a 50' boat. can not go wrong. bow into the sea is very comfortable. i believe you can unhook off it to fight a big one and leave it floating to go back to

 

[06405]

it defiantly couldn't hurt. Another solution to putting the bow in to the swell is to put a couple of 5 gallon buckets tied off to the bow to act like a chute in the water.

This post edited by 06405 09:51 PM 08/13/2008

 

[CARDINALS]

i use a sea anchor slows my drift by .4 to .5 knot in 1 1/2 or 2 knot drift

been using them for years, if you want to really slow your drift even more you can get the very large ones so your bow is into sea as well, here is a link for sea anchors, http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wc...RL=true&storeNum=8&subdeptNum=52&classNum=221

 

[MakoMike]

If you deploy it off of the bow doesn't that mean that you'll be drfiting backwards and all of th lines will be under the boat? Or is my thinking on this screwed up?

 

[CARDINALS]

2 types of anchors, (DRIFT ANCHOR smaller drift anchor off the midship side slows your drift, the big anchor for storms),(Parachute Sea Anchor?s incredible drag practically stops the vessel and allows the crew to passively wait out a storm) people put the big one off the bow when they get worried about waves rocking bad conditions etc.....,

see i could care less how much i rock back and forth dont bother me a bit, but some guys dont like rocking for those guys they put off bow, i prefer it off the gunnel midship out of the way of baits doing the normal drift just slows you down which is nice, i use them for fluke also smaller one 4 footer on the inshore boats when drift is over 1 1/2 knots.

 

[MakoMike]

CARDINALS wrote:
2 types of anchors, (DRIFT ANCHOR smaller drift anchor off the midship side slows your drift, the big anchor for storms),(Parachute Sea Anchor?s incredible drag practically stops the vessel and allows the crew to passively wait out a storm) people put the big one off the bow when they get worried about waves rocking bad conditions etc.....,

see i could care less how much i rock back and forth dont bother me a bit, but some guys dont like rocking for those guys they put off bow, i prefer it off the gunnel midship out of the way of baits doing the normal drift just slows you down which is nice, i use them for fluke also smaller one 4 footer on the inshore boats when drift is over 1 1/2 knots.

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[653758]

Im pretty sure your right makomike i was thinking the same thing yesterday

 

[PtJudeRI]

MakoMike wrote:
If you deploy it off of the bow doesn't that mean that you'll be drfiting backwards and all of th lines will be under the boat? Or is my thinking on this screwed up?

This was my concern too...I was thinking the sock would slow the boat to the point that the baits would drift faster??? Am I wrong here or does this in fact cause a comfortable drifting position, but poor fishing setup?

 

[CARDINALS]

sorry, should of been clearer

i've never used the huge sea anchor off the bow which almsot dead stops the boat, so can't tell you for sure, i use a smaller one off the gunnel midship, to slow drift only if needed, and this is no problem at all, but don't have exact answer to your question on where baits are gonna end up if someone used the huge sea anchor off the bow, its really made for sitting out storms in big waves, but i would guess cause wind and tide can be in different directions etc.....baits may not end up all screwed up, but just a guess.

 

[bluefinn240]

If you deploy it off of the bow doesn't that mean that you'll be drfiting backwards and all of th lines will be under the boat? Or is my thinking on this screwed up?

I am thinking the same thing

 

[DORADOsteve]

BIG difference between sea-anchors & drift socks.

These negate the effects of wind, not current.


A sea-anchor or drift sock deployed from the bow, will put your baits off the stern when KITE fishing.

 

[GAILFORCEII]

MakoMike wrote:
If you deploy it off of the bow doesn't that mean that you'll be drfiting backwards and all of th lines will be under the boat? Or is my thinking on this screwed up?


Your thinking is not screwed up, your right. I use them alot and if you deploy it off you bow your lines are going right in to your props towards the bow, not ideal for drifting. We deploy it of one side and set up all rods on other side

 

[KingKeith]

i've never seen it in action, i was just told by a very experienced canyon man how it works. i thought the same as MM when he told me about it. it is effective with wind, not current. won't the current move the sock or parachutte at the same speed if there's no wind? i can see it working and putting the bow into the sea as long as the current isn't parallel to the wind.

 

[MakoMike]

KingKeith wrote:
i've never seen it in action, i was just told by a very experienced canyon man how it works. i thought the same as MM when he told me about it. it is effective with wind, not current. won't the current move the sock or parachutte at the same speed if there's no wind? i can see it working and putting the bow into the sea as long as the current isn't parallel to the wind.

There won't be a sea if there is no wind and therefore, no need for it at all. The dcurrent will still push the boat, with its bigger surface area faster than the sock, so even without wind the bait will likely wind up under the boat. I can see deploying one off the spring line cleat, but not off the bow.

 

[Jigalow]

If you put it off the bow most likely your lines will run straight under the boat, not good. We tried one off the stern last summer which helped a little but it wasn't one of those huge ones so we still drifted sideways sort of.

I was thinking it might work if you tied one of those big parachute's to the stern and put a float on it so you could let it way out beyond where it would interfere with the baits and balloons, etc. The problem then is there'd be no way to get it in if you hooked into a nice sword or mako which no doubt would aim right for it...

 

[KingKeith]

i got that, no wind=no sea. i thought someone was thinking of deploying one in a fast current

 

[fishwon]

MakoMike wrote:
If you deploy it off of the bow doesn't that mean that you'll be drfiting backwards and all of th lines will be under the boat? Or is my thinking on this screwed up?
I think that as long as you are moving slower than the drift, than you will be ok. When you tie off, or anchor off your bow, the lines still set up the way they should.

 

[PtJudeRI]

seems i'm S.O.L. My only real reason to do this was to reduce the roll in a 3-4 ft. sea on the overnight chunk...but if the lines are gonna get under the boat thats the end of that idea.... As far as putting it off the stern, I would think that it would work that way, but it seems that its a time bomb waiting to happen....As stated before, ifa big fish is on, I'm not losing it to something as stupid as that....

Ryan

 

[621652]

it would be the same as if you where tying off a pot if the wind and tide are in the same dirrection your lines will go out behind the boat
if you have wind against tide you will have lines under the boat