Anchors are noisy, clumsy, slow to bite, and will seldom hold you exactly where you want to be. Staking out with a push pole is perhaps faster and quieter, but this depends on composition of the bottom. Forget about staking out over hard bottom. Push a button and down it comes, stopping your skiff instantly and precisely in up to five feet of water. Now that might not seem like a big deal to some anglers, but Florida flats fishing is hardly a casual game.
Skiffs can cost more than a comfortable house.
A quality push pole is more than a week's salary for a kid in a fast food joint - with overtime. Trolling motors with all the bells and whistles can run a grand. You bet this is serious stuff for the guys who do it. Take the Watts brothers over in Mulberry. These guys run Suncoast Fiberglass where they work on all things made of fiberglass, mostly boats, but primarily they live to fish.