Here is the anchor line/buoy secured using a paddle holder.  This effectively holds the anchor line while anchored.  I simply flip the bungee off and the anchor line/buoy floats free from the yak and I am free to follow a fish.

This photo shows how the reel/buoy is rigged.

Photo shows the cutters and material I used for the buttons.  I used a piece of 4X4" plastic fence post for the buttons.  The hole cutters are 3/4" and 1-1/8".  The 3/4" piece is a spacer for the line.  You should be able to see how it is installed in the first photo.

I have 2 of these installed on the starboard side of my yak now.  Photos show port side.  I reinstalled my trolley on the port side this week.  I was using buttons on both sides for a while but I find having both systems is more versatile and I also have both systems available if I need one or the other.

As always, if you have problems with the installation, I'll try to help.

Life is too short to catch little fish.

Charles  ( Pensacola)

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~12' Hobie Outback Yak - Eagle 245DS FF - Garmin 76S GPS~ ~Wicked Pam Flint, Mistress Of The Sea...  "You Scallywags Best Watch Y'r Bootie"~  Blackwater  Pirates - www.blackwaterliving.com 

Hey Hot Dog, I'm older than dirt. (66)

Life is too short to catch little fish.

I attached a piece of pool noodle to the line holder I have... and it floats. I used 4 SS D-rings with some vinyl strapping screwed into both sides of the yak so I could run the anchor line from the front to the back like a clothes line and all I have to do is... connect the anchor line through the ring and it works GREAT.

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~12' Hobie Outback Yak - Eagle 245DS FF - Garmin 76S GPS~ ~Wicked Pam Flint, Mistress Of The Sea...  "You Scallywags Best Watch Y'r Bootie"~  Blackwater  Pirates - www.blackwaterliving.com 

That's a pretty nifty rig you decised there, Ken, a guy could make at least 4 lifetime's worth of buttons out of just one plastic fence post!!

I have one question for you, if you attach the reel/float to your paddle bungee, and you are not paddling when you are using the anchor/float (that is attached to the paddle bungee), what do you do with your paddle?? I am not sure I have enough room on either side of my Redfish for another paddle tiedown (I already have an anchor trolley on the starboard side) and without another one somewhere, I am just back to trying to balance my paddle inside the kayak somewhere or trying to wedge it up forward under a piece of rope that I have stretched back from the forward handle for use to tie up to a dock.

 

OK, Pam, now you know better than that!!! C'mon, cough up some photos so Charles and I can understand what you just said!!!