SUPERTRAMP

Hit the pier heads at 7 am and started in 40' just north of the piers action steady until we boxed our limit coho's and lake trout were on the menu. Most fish were in 65 to 80 fow north of jean klok park and full core with blue dolphin and green dolphin were getting all the action 2 fish off riggers 45 down green dolphin with lemon ice free slider both fish were coho on the free sliders. No pics forgot the camera and my partner took all the fish home. I didn't have to clean them. All in all a great day out of the joe in a 15' bass boat finally figuring this little boat out.

The Stingfish appears to be an electronic Kwikfish be very careful of speed trolling these as they don't troll well above 2 mph they are a little more forgiving than a flatfish but not much.

The wife and I were out Sunday morning in So. Haven, the lake was supposed to be less than 1 ft according to the National weather service, (lol) the waves were more like 2 to 3' before the storm. My boat is a 15' Mirro Craft deep V and usually handles the water well, we were perch fishing off of Deer Lick Creek in 50 FOW and were getting a few medium sizers, The wife Looked North and saw the front on the Horizon, Pulled anchor and ran for the Harbor, Made it to the boat launch about 3 minutes ahead of the Storm. Any one out on the lake after that had a rough ride.

Mike:

I remember the unit you described in fact there was one on the first boat that I fished Lake Michigan in. It was a 21 foot Starcraft Holiday and we tore it up in Manistee. The year was 1970, and the first electric Downriggers were just coming out. Bill Walker knew my friend Nick Lubovich and Nick became a field tester for Walker Down riggers. By the end of 1972 there were 5guys at the Paper Mill that had boats, and I fished nearly every weekend or day off. Nick kept the Fish-n-Tramp at whispering willows marina in St Joe and we could get of an 11-7 shift run over and fish until 1:00 and then go home and get some sleep before going back in at 11:00. In 1979 Nick and I bought a 24' Sea eagle and christened it the SUPERTRAMP. My son Joe got his first Salmon on that boat and he took the helm for the first time when he was 12 years old and did a great job. On the new boat we had a Pelican troll speed indicator, it was similar to any of the impeller type units used today but it attached to the transom of the boat instead of being on a transducer and sent down on a cable. Speed has always been a very important part of the game and with the new systems it is easier to see your speed and to control it.

Mike Chamberlin

Supertramp