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bstein:
Hi All,
It’s Dungeness crab season here is the SF Bay Area and I’d like to use my SUP board to catch some. I went out here to drop some snares but the wind picked up making the process of setting and retrieving the snares a bit of a pain. Was wondering if anyone has experience with kayak anchors on a paddleboard? What size is effective to hold against a 10 mph wind?

PonoBill:
Oddly, yes,and for more or less the same reason. A dinky little collapsable anchor will hold a SUP board nicely. I bought the smallest one West Marine sells and it was fine. I carried full size semi-commercial traps out, one at a time. and then hauled them up to empty them and rebait. Did that for several weeks about ten or fifteen years ago.

Night Wing:
When I was saltwater fishing from my 14'9" Scupper Pro TW, now discontinued by Ocean Kayak, I used a 2.2 pound Bruce claw anchor. The key to have the anchor not dragging along the bottom is the amount of scope (angle) from the anchor to the kayak.

I used a ratio of (7:1). Which means in a 15 mph wind and the the depth of the water was 25 feet, the length of rope from the anchor to the kayak was 175 feet. This kept me from drifting and kept me right over my secret fishing "spot" for flounder.

A 2.2 pound claw pound anchor will easily hold a sup in place as long as the scope of rope is correct. You can see a Bruce style claw anchor at the link below.

https://www.amazon.com/MarineNow-Galvanized-Bruce-Style-Anchor/dp/B07PGWMMP5/ref=pd_lpo_2?pd_rd_i=B00X4SNK3E&psc=1

BTW, Lemar also makes a claw anchor.

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