How do you anchor when fishing rocks such as a dam? I am thinking something round might hold and be easy or at least possible to retrieve, and a 10lb Kettlebell might do the trick. Please share your thoughts good or bad idea?

So far I've done OK in the rocks with the folding anchor rigged with a zip tie. I've had to break some zip ties, but the anchor always comes up when pulled from the bottom.

Great success using a 10lb downrigger ball.

That'd be one HUGE football head jig haha. But I bet that would work pretty good once it grabbed hold of a rock.

"Great success using a 10lb downrigger ball" J that is what gave me the idea. A kettlebell is about 1/3 the cost and is rubber coated it might work as well. Other ideas?

Personally, I prefer a kettlebell to any other anchor I've used. I used to have a 5 pounder and actually prefer it to the 10 I currently have. Don't ask what happened to the 5..

The 10 lb foam covered dumbell has been working for me for a long time...

My first downrigger ball is on the bottom of South Lake...it hit the side of my kayak and unclipped itself. It was a "DOH!!!" moment for sure.

Hehe, what happened to the 5lbs one?

Baught a 10 pound kbell from Academym worked great!

There are enough ppl on here who will tell embarrassing stories on me for me to start telling them on myself! I will say there was a witness.

I've used a #5 dumb bell for an anchor for years. It holds on rocks, gravel, mud, grass, shell, weeds...everything, and I can get it back (unlike some types of anchors that are still on the bottom somewhere...ie-claws). I found that window weights and round anchors will slide and roll. Haven't used a kettle ball because I've not found a need