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I'm a big fan of the Danforth (fluke) anchor, but if you're anchoring in silty lakes all the time you might want something different. The Danforth holds in rocks, sand, mud, gravel, weeds, but not that well in lake bottoms, at least for me.

I lucked out and found my anchor on the bottom of Puget Sound while scuba diving. It just fits in the bow locker of my 15'. I recommend the biggest Danforth that will fit in your bow locker, which isn't very big in the first place I guess.