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In reply to Post #32
Stage weights are ideal and what I use. 👌
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Just cement the chain within the concrete when it’s being poured 👍
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In reply to Post #30
What sort of weight does everyone use to hold ground in a lake? When making these concrete home made anchors how are people attaching a chain to the concrete weight?
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In reply to Post #13
exactly how i made my mud weights .. concrete but the right size flower pot haha
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In reply to Post #14
You can't beat a bruce(claw type0 anchor with a length of chain for holding power especially in soft ground like mud silt or sand.still hold in gravel but need the chain to keep the angle of pull low.
A 2kg claw anchor on eBay can be had for £12
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In reply to Post #1
Check out a guy on FB, Ma CCa, I bought a lead boat weight from him, was really really good and he does differing sizes depending on you requirement.
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In reply to Post #19
Ceramic are best. Lighter as well
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In reply to Post #21
Exactly, though I can imagine with shipping etc it would be a tad expensive. They're not that tough to make.
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In reply to Post #1
10 or 12kg Kettle bells, used them for years....made for the job....sort of 
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In reply to Post #23
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In reply to Post #19
Vented and cross drilled. Grips the bottom more innit 
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In reply to Post #12
I have one very similar which I use for retrieving the line if a fish has gone through snags , I thought it would
Do the job for keeping me in position while
Lowering rigs etc but at chanty last week when the wind got up i was just dragging the anchor about so was no good. Def needed something heavier.
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In reply to Post #20
Dutch firm make some decent ones, timmys carp boat products on Facebook. Come in sections with a huge Auger point on the bottom.
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In reply to Post #7
Have you thought about hanging an aluminum stick of the side of your boat? I fish mainly from my boat and I have 6 meter ones with screw points. Kind of like prodding sticks, but thicker. They keep me in place for days. I imagine with an anchor you'll muddy up your spots and create floating debris. With a stick you won't have those issuess.
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In reply to Post #18
Solid or vented ones mate. also cross drilled or not?
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I know it sounds daft but brake disc rotors from a large car make for good mud weights on a lake
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In reply to Post #16
You are better with a Iron or Lead mud weight rather than concrete due to gravity, I made some concrete ones in the tins and were hopeless to be honest, it all depends on venue and conditions when I fish the big lakes I was using big Bruce style anchors with a good chain attached and rope and normally 3 to 1 with the rope so say fishing 30ft depth would have 90ft+ of rope out and pull into both back and front, some venues these are not allowed and use the Lead which are work fine
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In reply to Post #13
Makes sense mate
I didn’t even look down a page to notice there was boat section until you mentioned it 🙄
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In reply to Post #14
Good point...
Moved to Boat Section 
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How come we're getting more boat threads in the tackle section since karlos made a whole new section dedicated to boats🤔
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IMHO
having owned a lot of boats including inflatables over the past 40 odd years
golden rule
Lakes mud weight
River or sea Anchor
Anchors are designed to be pulled in hence a tide or a river flow
edit
when I made concrete mud weights I used a B&Q bucket half full make sure you tap all around the outside of the bucket to get rid of the air bubbles when its dry couple of days you can tip it out this makes a nice mud weight that wont sink in the mud and is easy to retrieve in weed beds etc
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In reply to Post #9
Ok mate thank you
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In reply to Post #8
then a collapsible anchor, a single one will be fine. go up wind of the area. drop you single anchor, let rope out on the wind. locate over your desired area and do the do. then pull yourself up to the anchor, remove it, off you go. you deffo don't need 2 anchors for that task.
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In reply to Post #6
Thank you
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In reply to Post #4
Not fishing from it, but I’m literally fishing tiny holes in weed on a 95 acre water, even all the bars are covered so Want to make sure I’m stable lowering rigs and checking the spots with aqua scope
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Sand anchor bags, I assume being advised you need two you are going to be fishing from it and need to stabilize the boat, or just fill two old 5 litre paint cans with concrete and cast a bit of bent rebar into it to tie rope onto and lower in .
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In reply to Post #3
what you doing, fishing from it ? its a small boat. if you want too anchor and fish, those little fold up anchors are ok to a point.
I use a lead weight, made by a guy of FB, they are superb. I use them on big ressies in the winter esox fishing. There really good but likely over kill for a 245.
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In reply to Post #2
Lake use mate
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In reply to Post #1
River or lake use ?
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Can anyone suggest a small boat anchor please, I have a Bic 245, been advised I would probably need 2. Thanks in advance
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