SUPERTRAMP

What a day, between dodging storms and trying to boat big fish we had a great trip, ended up 11 for 16 with 1 coho,1 32 Inch Steelhead, and 9 Kings between 7 and 18 lbs. Started the day straight out and a little south of the piers set up in 65 FOW and trolled NW to 70 before the first rigger fired green glow J plug 67 down , next was a nice coho on the 44' rigger carmel dolphin Stinger, then came the steelhead on full core modified carmel dolphin stinger. Then came the lightning, pulled everything and ran in to the marina, @ 8:20 sat around for an hour and headed back out to a calm lake, and the fishing got better as the day progressed, definitely a plug bite for the most part, both on full core and riggers of the 16 fish on 10 came on plugs, 1 on 11" green paddle and 5 on the carmel dolphin Stingers high in the water column 44 to 49 ft and on the full cores. Full box of fish and happy fishermen makes for a great day. We ended up getting the biggest fish of the day on the riggers as we were pulling lines deep rigger with the pearl glow Silver Horde fired and that fish was 34" long and scaled 18 lbs and 4 oz.

Mike

Supertramp

Boat Name MC2

I changed back to steel cable this year, when we had the slime and fleas in June the braid just piled up with the stuff and the cable doesn't seem effected by it. The 1 advantage to the braid is smaller diameter for higher break strength so u get less blow back with it. I changed to heavier pancake style weights and that solved the blowback issue. Like Nailer said the age issue is another negative on the braid need to change every year. It doesn't age gracefully and it is not very abrasion resistant.

Good luck what ever you try.

Had Mike Leach, his son Kevin(university of Mi Safety) and daughter for an early morning run. Left the slip at 5:30 and ran out to 80 FOW, Set up 4 riggers with Stinger NBK and Modified Carmel Dolphin fm 49 to 82 down, 2 fullcores with same spoons, and 2 300 copper with same stuff, and 1 power pro Dipsey on 2 out 202'. Just got the spread out and the full core on the port side went nice steelhead about 4# the young ladies first ever and she handled the rod like a pro. Next was the 300 copper with carmel dolphin stingray and that was a very nice Laker around 15# just got every thing re set and the deep rigger with the modified carmel dolphin went off 2 year old king. The dipsey went and was on for a minute then came off, and another hit on the deep rigger never hooked up, all this befor 7:00, kinda slowed down until the weather ran us off at around 9:45. Got real lumpy really quick. Going up the channel between the piers had to keep the boat on plane to maintain steering. Glad the hard top is on this boat. Kept us nice and dry.

Mike and this kids had a blast and took home some nice fillets.

Mike(Supertramp)Chamberlin

Boat Name MC2

Well you at least got to spend a great morning on the water and got home without any real damage to the outdrives. Good to see you and take care of the salmon in the classroom project. We didnt do any better on the perch, funny how a couple of days will change everything on you.

Nice job Mike and crew. Thanks for the tip on the paddle and fly off the dipsey, after you gave me that piece of advice I set one out on the power pro dipsey 11" green glow paddle with a black and gold horsefly out 215 wasnt down 3 min and ripped a nice 14# king. The day was not too good for us though sail boat went down my port side and took 3 boards and a 4 color a full color and a 300 copper with it. We ended up with 4 nice fish.

Larrie will be going perch fishing on Sunday try south about even with Deerlick creek and graph fm 15 to 40' when u find fish set up and try it I have been very successful with that pattern this year. A lot of guys are going south to the dunes and fishing in that 15 to 40 FOW depends on water temp and how stirred up the sand is.

Mike

Nice Kings Jim wtg.

Got over to the slip @ 6:00PM, headed out to my pre set way point and set lines in 85 FOW on a north troll. Program was mostly green spoons on the cores and coppers along with a couple of carmel dolphins spoons on the riggers and dipseys. Ended up at 9:30 with 1 really overstuffed Laker and 4 lost fish. 1 King came off after diving thru the downrigger cables and hanging the hook on the cable, that was on a 300 copper NBK, the others were on carmel dolphin on a full core just new fishermen trying to horse the fish and the hooks pulled out Saddest was a brand new stingray carmel dolphin on the dipsey out 214 set on 2 and a brand new Sampo swivel had the split ring pull out left the straightened put ring on the leader what a bummer. Still a great evening on the water fished fm 85 to 117 and marked a lot of fish 55 to 70 down. The sunset was really magnificent to end the day. (That Laker came on the deep rigger 93 dn)

Mike (Supertramp)

Boat Name MC2

Nice job Nick not bad for a short trip. The newbies are a hoot, but anytime the lake lays down after a blow it is a nice time to get out and the fish are a huge bonus.

Good job Jeff! But if my lines are sparking I am outa there. If you have ever been caught in a Super cell storm u will know what I mean. Manistee 1983 we got caught in one saw a water spout just outside of our position and befor we could get lines pulled and the riggers up we were in it lightning fried my graph and radio and we took waves that went over the top of the boat nearly swamping us. From then on when the lightning starts I stay off of the pond. There is no fish worth your life. (By the way that boat was a 24' Sea Eagle Cuddy offshore fisherman. Built for big water.

Mike (Supertramp) Chamberlin

boat name MC2

Nicely done Jim, Its always fun when a new pattern starts to work.

Ok so the day got a late start due to unforseen problems with one the guys getting to the boat. Finally left the slip @ 6:45 and ran strait out to about 75FOW and set a program up of 4 Riggers and 2 300' 45# coppper and 2 full cores. Riggers were set upwith 2 11" paddles White double glow e-chip flasher with a Siggs rig blue greenbubble set at 77 dn and a green glow e-chip with a DW Green weenie @ 84 dn, a carmel dolphin Stinger SS at 65 dn and a mag DW NBK @ 49 dn. The cores had standard fishlander carmel dolphin and a standard fishlander NBK. The coppers were set up with standard NBK and Mag carmel dophin Stingray spoons. Finally set up and fishing when the 300 copper went in 87 FOW fish straightened out a crosslock swivel and came off with my mag Carmel dolphin spoon reset and set the rod down when the white paddle @ 77dn on the rigger went and that one was a screamer leader broke at the hook. (No more fluoro Carbon leaders) Ended the day with 6 for 11 4 Kings 1 nice Steelhead and 1 Laker that we shook off without taking it out of the water. It was a tough day on the MC2 lost 1 fly 3 spoons and a complete 300' of copper line when the dipsy and the copper on the same side crossed and the dipsey cut the backer on the copper. However there are fish in 95 to 115 FOW straight out fm the pierheads and a north south troll worked best. There was a strong south east to Northwest current today. Am gonna try to attach photos that I loaded into the gallery. Both of my fishermen were first timers and they at least got to feel the pull of a big silver fish, largest King was around 15 lbs

The braid is my best set up for the dipseys not as hard on guides and i dont need a twill tip to run it. Paulywood said it best plugs and spoons off core and copper keeps the tangles to a minimum. The big paddles and spinnies tend to wind up together when you are making turns.

The dipseys work very well with spoons and with flasher fly combo, run about 4' of leader to your flasher and then attach your fly, to run a spoon off of a dipsey use about 5 to 6' of leader and attach your spoon to a 30# coast lock or standard ball bearing swivel set your angle on your dipsey and run it back. I always stick with spoons off of my lead core (except early spring then I run body baits on 1 and 2 color rigs in shallow for coho and browns. One question that I forgot to ask is what kind of line do you run for your dipseys. I have great luck with 40# wire and with 40# power pro braid. Gets the dipsey deeper with less line out and seems to set the hooks better on a strike.

I have lost some flies and some plugs using 20# fluoro carbon leader, just picked up some 40# gonna give it a try. Funny I agree that I never had the problem when I was using 30# Big game.

Nick said it all. If you are running all your baits at the same depth, the big boards work well but if you run full cores, 300' of 45#copper and shorter or longer versions of the same set ups you are running different depths and the inlines allow you to set your deeper sets closer to the boat and work out to your shallowest depth and re set without having to move any of your other setups. The Big boards really shine for walleyes when you are trolling diving plugs and trying to get them all into the same depth.

Glad we stayed home this weekend, I am getting too old to bounce around in 2 to 4's when the fishing has been slow. Gonna try to get out again during the week. Nice job on the trout Mike.

White 11" Pro chip with a Siggs rig blue Hypnotist with a 36" leader has been killer.

yeah I am always looking for new nets LOL.

45# copper 300' @ 2.5mph 85 to 88 ft, 150' 45'.

Went over to the boat this afternoon for a short perch trip and ended up getting on the water about 12:30. Ran down to about a mile north of deerlick creek and slowed befor we got to the pack. Most of the boats were in a bout 20 FOW, moved out to 30 FOW and cruised until we found a school of fish in 29 FOW. Dropped the hook and in the next 2 hours caught 36 nice eaters and 2 gobies.

Good job on the silver fish.

Cleared the pierheads @ 6:10AM and ran NW to 85 FOW set 4 riggers with a combo of NBK Mag glow, Moonglow Flounder Pounder, and Carmel dolphin glow spoons, 60' down to 84', 2 full cores with the same spoons and 2 300' 45# copper with same glow green and yellow patterns, First fish was a laker on the starboard copper rig, released that one, next was a king about 8# on the rigger Flounder pounder down 85. Got out to 120 and continued on a north troll and had steady action out to 175 FOW, 3 undersized lakers and another King about 10# all on the Flounder pounder on the copper rigs. Changed to Paddles and flies on the riggers and set an 11" white e chip paddle with a Sigs rig blue bubble down 136 wasnt down 3 minutes and got another Lake trout about 10#, then the other deep rigger down 118' in 179 FOW fired, 8" echip white glow flasher with a Sigs blue mirage fly. Ended the day with 3 Lakers and 3 Kings in the box and released 3 small Lakers. (shame to have to release undersized fish that come up fm 100' or more they don't stand a chance.) Finished up the day just south of the Saugatuck pierheads in 178 FOW. A long run back to S.Haven with the lake conditions. 2 to 3 footers all morning but very fishable.

Mike (Supertramp)

Boat Name MC2

good job on the silver fish but what happened with the Perch Larry?

Good job Katrina its tough to hear all the so called 25 fish catches and only get three, but it is better than a skunk. Your report was informative and very helpful. Keep up the good work.

Mike (supertramp)

Boat Name MC2