"Tom" wrote in message
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Forget the bow roller. It gets in your way when you're fighting fish that
like to run around the boat. Instead, get an anchor buoy retrieval
system:

http://www.fishing-catalog.com/other...nchor_ball.htm

I saw that in a catalog - does it really work?

Yes. As long as it's not a real rocky bottom.

I remember pulling
anchors when offshore and I was 20 years younger then - and I'll bet
the water hasn't gotten any shallower.