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Thanks Mark for the information on the spawn. I may back off on going after some. I did run the motor every way to try to free the anchor. Every time the bow of the boat start to bend down. That is when I Knew I had to cut the rope. Just having a hard time get up beat about wetting a line right now.
QUOTE="Salmonid, post: 2189096, member: 677"]Norb, me and Backupbait ( Randy) were out today, put in at Public landing, fished hard all day long, (11 hrs) it was all we could do to cover 20 miles of water and land 13 fish, no pattern, a mix of channels and blues, all small ( only 2 over 5 lbs) because both are in full spawning mode right now, fish were 1 here, 1 there, we had 9 rods out all day with fresh and frozen shad, and skipjacks, no preferences btw, water is 79 degrees, you really need to wait another two weeks before the channels start showing back up and another week or so after that the blues will start to get back in the game. There was NOTHING in any of our normal places....so don't get frustrated its happening to everyone right now... bummer on the anchor too. there are several ways to unleash anchors from cables, I assume you could feel it give and take?? sometimes you can run up or down river and it will slide along until you get to a enough slack to pull it to surface, other times you pull it real hard and let it spring back down straight down , that is the best approach, works after a few times almost always when on a cable, another is to have 1 really solid cleat on the boat and use the boat to break it loose by circling it with all the rope out trying to pull it from different angles, if that doesn't work, with careful tact, use the boat motor to pull of break the rope free. I always get a anchor rope with either 200 or 300 lbs breaking strength, that way it will snap before it sinks the boat, LOL now that you have to replace anchor, look at eh Neversnags, when the tie breaks the anchor pulls from upside down and should have came loose, just sayin.. hang in there buddy... if you haven't threatened to sell all your stuff at least 2-3 times during the Ohio River cat season, you haven't been hitting it hard enough......[/QUOTE]