Anchor Rope

[West6550]

For those of you who don't have a fish finder.. like myself in my little Ole Jon Boat . I put new anchor rope on my boat, I measured it out and every 5ft on the rope I took a perment marker and made a one inch black band around the rope.. I did this every 5 ft until I got to the end (mine is 25ft). When I let out the rope I just count, 1...2.. and a little okay so its about 12ft deep  .. Helps in dark water to see if its 5ft or 15ft deep. Just be careful not to slam the anchor down to scare off the fish My anchor has been in some mud and nasty water but it it still easy to read my black bands.

[Lipripper]

That's a good ideaif you have a boat. Sort of like what they did onthe old river boats to check the depth of the river.

[Camden]

i made what we called a fathom rope. same idea but i marked mine every 1 foot and used a very light rope with a 1 oz weight. let it hit bottom then if you count the feet as you pull it up. course i would recomend this on big lakes. on smaller shallow lakes it works great