I have an orange shrimp basket that I keep the anchor line in. I usually have it on the raised deck as far up to the bow as possible and it's tied to the hand rail with a short piece of rope. In the picture above, my wife put the basket on the gunnel so she could lay on the deck. But I just wanted to give you a visual of what I use. It's a lot easier than trying to push it down.
Oh...I have 600ft of line. Most of it is under the deck and what I normally use is coiled up in the basket. If I need more line, it just runs out of the basket and starts feeding from down below. When I pull anchor, everything just goes back into the basket.
Luis