Whats the best achor to use in the mud or sand when you cant reach a bank. The area I hunt has very low water this year and it i just the matter of time before I get stuck. I was thinking of carrying a small come-along winch, 100 feet of poly and 2, 4 foot 1/2 inch re-bar poles (or square aluminum poles)that I would drive into the mud on an angle away from the boat in line with each other. Then tie them together and attach the come-along to the one closest to the boat. I will set it up and test it but first I was looking for ideas from you guys that have experience.
Dave

I was looking at one of the winchout bars.
http://www.winchout.com/

This looks good but small. Im thinking the same concept but a little bigger.

http://www.xtractorstore.com/howitworks.html

That looks pretty good how much weight is it rated for I agree the winch out looks small but is rated for 3700 lbs.

I myself haven't had much luck finding a do it all anchor as of yet. The Louisiana marsh is a forever changing beast. hard bottom in one place, thick and soupy in another with no bottom in sight, but the mother of all stuck is what we call coffee grinds!

I still carry a medium size come-a-long, 100ft of 5/8 breaded nylon, four 5ft sticks of 2" pvc pipe and a 6ft cajun anchor. That usually gets me out 80% of the time, but I'm cursing and busting my ass the whole time! lol


I find my best anchor is my cell phone! lol

This setup is the one I was thinking. Simple and easy to carry. I need to test it in the soft stuff to see how it works.

http://www.gorillawinches.com/blog/dead ... -anchor-2/

Found This on the internet.
In the Second World War we had all kinds of problems with mud. The problem of winching trucks out of mud was a big issue. It was solved by driving a metal stake into the ground, slanted slightly backward so that the cable to the truck would slide to the ground .
When enough pressure in put on the stake , it tends to lean toward the force, and pull out . In order to prevent that , the stake had a short section of chain attached to the top . The short chain had a ring at the end. A second stake would be driven through the ring . Now it is much harder to tip the first stake, but not impossible on a very hard pull. If there was any doubt , a third or fourth stake was used .
Even in quite unstable soil , we were able to winch the truck out, in almost all cases .
Trucks carried their own winches on the front bumper . When necessary , we would run all of the cable out , so that the greatest pull was on the axel of the winch . A full spool has far less strength than an empty one .
Empty - - more power , less distance. Full - - - more distance, less power