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The Stick It Anchor Pin - Shallow Water Anchoring System
May 22, 2008 08:18AM Admin Registered: 38 years ago Posts: 236

The Stick It Anchor Pin is seven feet long with a "T" handle. It's constructed of reinforced polyester resin. The shaft itself is small in diameter and tapered to a semi blunt point at the business end of the device. When you first hold the Pin you can immediately feel the strength of the design. The Pin is flexible yet absurdly solid. The manufacturer claims a tensile strength of thirty thousand pounds and I believe it. For all this the Pin is light, a snap to use and well maneuvered on a kayak.

The Stick It Pin was originally designed for power boats as a quick anchoring device for flats fishing in six feet of water or less. The product includes some really nice accessories. There are mountable clips, and a couple of really nice lanyards for tying off the Pin. When this concept is applied to a kayak there are almost limitless ways to stow and hook up to the Anchor Pin. All the accessories display the same quality as the pin itself. After examining the Pin, accessories and testing the device on the mangrove flats in Broward County, I came to the conclusion that the Stick It Anchor Pin is the "Cadillac of Flat Stakes." If you use a flat stake on your kayak and want the best, this is it.

Because of the Pin's unique construction there are some real differences between the Stick It and other commercial flat stakes. The Pin is flexible, not rigid like other stakes. This creates much more "holding power" than other products when staked out in a strong current or chop. The Pin is seven feet long but you can use it in deeper water without a problem. By "deeper" I mean seven feet plus the length of your arm. The Pin works just as well when it's fully submerged. I also believe that some of you more balanced lads and lassies would have no problem using the Pin as a push pole on the flats. I did not try poling with the Stick It because my Ballerina days are over.

I believe that The Stick It Anchor Pin is the best pole you can stick in the mud I've ever used. All you Gear Heads please take note.

Oh yeah, there is one thing I was wondering. When you call this manufacturer do they answer the phone by saying "Stick It, how can I help you?"

Here's a link to the web site. The Stick It Anchor Pin Shallow Water Anchoring System www.StickItAnchorPins.com

Coasties were very cooperative and expedited the check so they could be on their way. When they got to their primary site the water level was very high and the marsh was completely flooded with the redfish scattered all over. Unfortunately, the team was unable to further upgrade with the fish that they had found during their prefishing, where they were weighing 15 pounds between two fish for three days in a row.

For the second tournament in a row the team faced very windy conditions and the Stick It Anchor Pin really helped them out with boat positioning. They would troll into a pond and Stick It quietly to work the fish. Within the first hour of fishing they boated 15 reds using this technique. They boated a total of 22 fish in 4 hours of fishing before they had to make the long run back to the scales in Lafitte.

The next tournament that Chris and Mike will be fishing will be the Team Trails event out of Slidell Louisiana on July 26th, followed by the IFA Grand Isle event August 16th. You can meet the Redfishing Team on July 12th and 13th at the Sportsman's Expo show in Baton Rouge Louisiana. They will be there to answer all your questions about the Stick It Anchor Pin as well as Redfishing in Louisiana.

This year, possibly due to some really bad thunder-storms on tournament morning, the total number of teams competing was 132. After a wild start to their tournament day, with severe thunderstorms delaying the start for 2 hours, forcing them to change up their game plan last minute, the team ended the day finishing in 39th place out of 132 teams (http://www.ccalouisiana.com/cca/ ). The Stick-It team ran over 62 miles roundtrip to one of their pre-fishing sites where they consistently found clear water and 6-1/2 pound redfish. The team said it was a good day of fishing with them starting out the day with 2 fish in the livewell by 9AM and they continued to upgrade 5 times throughout the day.

They had one right on the 27" mark at 6-1/2 pounds but the other fish fell short at only just over 5-1/2 pounds to give them a total weight of 12.05#'s. They estimated that they must have caught over 24 fish in less than 5 hours of fishing, and that is usually a good indicator of a solid finish if they can put between 15 to 20 redfish in the boat on tournament day. Chris and Mike both said that as windy as it was after that squall line pushed through, the Anchor Pin really came in handy for "putting on the brakes" as they would enter each of the ponds with the redfish in them. Now their focus switches to the next tournament which will be out of Lafitte,LA April 26th. This is part of the three tournament series called the Redfish Tour put on by the Inshore Fishing Association where they can qualify for the championship at the end of the season. Lafitte means long runs to the fish with limited time to catch the two fish they need so they will have to practice catching fish in a hurry. The Stick-It Team has a big prefishing weekend planned coming up and they plan to prefish one or two back-up areas prior to the event just incase the weather gets ugly again like the last tournament. The next two Redfish Tour events following the Lafitte event are Grand Isle, LA August 16th and Venice, LA October 11th. In between those tournaments there are some events being put on by a new Redfish Tournament organizer named Team Trails and they will be putting on five tournaments in Loui- siana and Mississippi starting in June. The Redfishing Team plans to take part in a few of those as well. More updates from the Stick-It Redfishing Team will follow shortly. Remember to just "Stick-It".