We are very pleased to announce that our Stinger Silent Precision Anchor (Patent Pending) received rave reviews at the Midwest Flyfishing Show this past weekend.  Many people asked if they could buy one on the spot, but we hadn’t brought any to the show.

What is the Stinger Silent Precision Anchor?  As can be seen to the left, it’s an anchoring system that obsoletes the old fashioned weight and rope.  The boat is stopped, and the Stinger is simply lowered until the telescoping tip rests on the bottom under it’s own weight, drags a few  inches due to wind, current, or tide, then the dragging friction stops the Stinger tip, and then, of course, holds the boat precisely in position.  Lifting the Stinger is incredibly easy with our pulley and cleat system, as it weighs a fraction of most old fashioned anchors. 

The Stinger was designed by us, mostly for our guiding activities, to solve all the problems created by the old fashioned anchor and rope.  We found the old fashioned anchor to be heavy, noisy, rarely held position, dirty, caused silt clouds, sometimes permanently snagged, and tore up the bottom of lakes and rivers.

Conversely, the Stinger is ultra-light, silent, precise, clean, silt-less, snag-less, and ecological.  It works in the variety of currents, bottom composition, winds, tides, etc., in depths up to 5 feet.

The Stinger is elegantly simple, very few moving parts, easy to install, and more importantly a pleasure to use!  No more passing up good cover because you just don’t want to put that clumbsy anchor down again.  Our kayak Stinger can be raised and lowered with two fingers and a thumb while facing forward in the boat.

The Stinger is available in several sizes to fit small to large inflatable pontoon boats, kayaks, canoes, johnboats, and even large “driftboats” and other watercraft.  How do you see one?  Soon we’ll have a video on this website, or a DVD we’ll send you.  If you are local, you can stop by and see the Stinger in action, or even take a demo out for a test drive. 

The Stinger Silent Precision Anchor (Patent Pending) was designed, tested, and is being manufactured by LCH Enterprises, LLC in coopertation with Golden Drake Outdoors.

Remember - Don’t anchor….Stinger!

Wow.  What a difference a couple of days make.  Two clients hired me for a 3 hour outing on Tuesday morning.  Right away we caught huge bluegill and a bunch of them, a few other species, settled in and caught several decent sized largemouth.  We didn’t even leave their local lake, or their section of the lake.  Both guys were happy, tipped well, and slapped each other on the back as they walked away from the boat when I dropped them off.  Success, and I felt good… like I knew what I was doing.

A couple of days later, they booked me for a 1/2 day.  The lake was flat glass.   Driving the boat through the fog with a cup of coffee, I kept thinking “This is awesome.  If I can’t be happy now, I can never be”.  We focussed on getting some largemouth, and  they wanted to take a few bluegill home.  My first two real hot largemouth spots busted.  Then a small bass after an hour or so.  Uh-oh….It was then I realized it was going to be a down day. Crystal clear skies, wind hauling out of the north sort of thing, but I thought I could work through it if I tried hard enough. 

I jumped 5  lakes.  I tried the connecting rivers.  Worms, minnows, surface lures, plastic worms, micro jigs tipped with waxworms, surface disturbance lures, deep, shallow…all for only a small fish here, a small fish there.  My hands were chapped from changing lures - blowing through so many tactics and driving the boat so hard.

Well, the end of the trip came, I dropped off the clients with their few fish, gave them a discount, and I think they were still disappointed.  I felt like whatever zone I was in a few days before was gone now, and I questioned whether I really did know what I was doing.

And so it goes.  Anyone who says they have fish figured out and can catch them every time is nuts.  It’s tough to live and die at the whim of a cold blooded creature with a brain the size of a pea.