Nah to pulling anchor up with his rod...he was pulling up our anchor with capstan and it started straining so he helped it along manually and then came to a heavy rope...I knew right there! I told him he had found an anchor fish...haha! Sure enough, this weird shaped anchor was at the end of the rope and chain...covered in barnacles and sponges. We brought it home and I water blasted it and knocked it about with a hammer to clean. It has deteriorated some with the salt water, but it has been down there for a very long time for sure!! A little welding and it will maybe be good as spare or for someone! Love to know the history of how it got down there with rope included---guess some dumb arse forgot to tie it and tossed the whole lot overboard.
A bad day fishing beats a good day working!
P.S. If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
TIGHT LINES,
CarolLynne