Humminbird Side Imaging spots Wissota shipwreck
Dr. Jason Halfen
Professional Walleye Angler
Navigation:
While out looking over a long set of Wissota cribs today, my Humminbird 997 and I found something that is not a crib. Unless my eyes and Side Imaging technology deceive me....that sunken object at the end of the red arrow is a boat. She's no Edmund Fitzgerald, but she's a shipwreck nonetheless.
Navigation:
She sits in 16 feet of water, no more than 100 feet off shore at the base of a shoreline dropoff.
One of the great features of the Humminbird Side Imaging units is that once an object appears on the screen, the user can cursor over to the object and drop a waypoint directly on it, which makes re-finding critical pieces of structure, cribs, rockpiles, weedlines, or even sunken boats a snap. Now that I've got a waypoint on her, I'm going to drop a camera on her before the water dirties up this summer to see what she's all about.
Some more info about the shipwreck:
First, the cribs that it lies near were installed in 2004. Here's an image of the cribs on the ice, before they sunk down to their new homes.
Now, the cribs are approx. 8 foot square. In this image, I made a red bar that is the same length as the crib that is nearest the boat...therefore, that bar is ~ 8 feet long. I moved that bar so that is next to the boat, to give us some idea about the length of the boat. Based on that rough measurement, my guess is that we're looking at a 12-foot boat. It also looks like the boat has an enclosed bow...anyone missing a little 12-footer with an enclosed bow?
