Frank Church wrote in
9.11:

..that has been my major complaint with my pontoon boat Dave, the oars
seem to reach out and grab my flyline unless I "stow" them parallel to
the pontoons and out of the way of my casting. The solution I found is
to anchor, stow the oars, then fish out the area, up anchor and move
on a bit. I *bought* a really nice heavy mesh "anchor bag" at Cabelas,
fill it with rocks and there you have a "no snag" anchor. Should work
fine in light to moderate current. My boat only weighs 15 lbs so not
much weight would be needed to keep it in place. As has been suggested
here earlier, some drag a 6' length of chain to slow down the drift
and I should think that would keep the pointy end where you want it. I
wonder about the noise of it on the rocks, seems like that would spook
the fish way before you get in range. Anybody tried this method of
drift fishing?

On a scale of slow to moderate how would you rate the Andy where we went
last fall?

I do not wish to experience first hand the horror show of a pontoon that
decides to throw me because I anchored in water that was too fast. But I
also don't want to be wimpy about it either...

I looked for mesh bags locally, with no success, and I have one someplace
that I used float tubing, but dammed if I know where the hell it is...now
that I think of it, it is probably in one of the tube pockets....doh....

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