Trip to Beaver Lake Next Monday

[thumper]

I will be on the lake next Monday 28th. Hired Beaverfever. I don't know him yet. Had I guy I know up there recommend him. Hope it turns out good. This will be my first trip fishing in Arkansas. If anyone is interested in looking at a mechanical thumper, give me a yell, before Thurs. 24th am. 817-220-2312 I plan to bring a couple with me anyway. you can check them out at www.bobosthumper.com if interested.

[Blll]

You should have a great time. If you go with Don, he has a dry sense of humor that will crack you up. Works hard and puts fish on the line. Enjoy.

[thumper]

Thanks for the reply, Bill. I am looking forward to it. After next Monday, I'll be able to scratch another one off my list of "to do's".

[thumper]

Well, the trip with Don started off slow last Mon. He called as I was leaving the hotel to let me know it was too foggy and to wait an hour.

The water temp was around 51 degrees. It had frosted that morning and the air temp was around 26 degrees.

We started slow trolling shad around 8:00. I was surprised watching him put out 14 lines to troll shad. I thought it would be a heck of a mess. The first fish was a 18" white bass. Then a while later we landed a 21" striper. Around 10:00 we moved to a couple of other nonproductive spots, that had muddy water. Then we went down the lake about 45 minutes just past a bridge where a creek flows in to the main channel. He marked some fish there so we decided to try it out.

After an hour and a half we had landed 2 more decent striper. Then the bite completely stopped.

Around 1:00 I told him I wanted to turn on my mechanical thumper. He said " Go ahead, I'll sit back here and laugh." 5 minutes later the rod tips started to bury in the water. Don jumped up yelling " What the heck." While I was reeling the first one in, 2 more rods went down. Just as I got 1 landed, another rod buried in the water. For an hour we had more strikes than we could set the hook on. It was awesome. Don was jumping around yelling and doing an Indian war dance around the console. We landed 6 big fish and lost a ton of strikes.

My wife was waiting at the hotel for me to pick her up to head back to Texas, so I had to go. As we headed in, Don turned to me and said " I watched you all day. As the day went on, you seemed as if you were ready to take a nap. Then you turned that contraption on, sat up, and started eyeballing the rods. You knew what was going to happen. Didn't you?" I said, sure, It happens every time. It calls the shad to the boat first, and the larger fish follow them for a banquet. He said he had never seen anything like it in 36 yrs. of striper guiding on Beaver Lake.

He called his friend Richie, and asked how his day went. On speaker phone, Richie told us he had 3 clients and 3 fish. Don then told him about our day.

They both bought a Bobo's Thumper a piece right then.

I had a great day with Don. I learned a different way to troll live shad. And he learned a new way to lure striper, wiper, and white bass to the boat to make it easier to catch them.

He called the following night to tell about his clients limiting out that day with the Bobo's Thumper running. With a 21.5 lb. and a 24 lb. striper.

He called his other boats to come to that area, because there were fish everywhere. They showed up and could not mark 1 fish anywhere. His sonar screen was blacked out. When they got close to his boat they started marking tons of striper. The thumper called them in to his boat. If you don't believe it, Go to his beaverfeverguides.com website and check out the pictures for 3/28 and 3/29. Then call him and ask.

[Champ188]

Solution to our striper issue?

[thumper]

I didn't know you had a striper issue.

[Blll]

Don is a real hoot to fish with. There must be something to that thumper if it got his attention. Where do you get them?

[thumper]

I looked at the lake map and discovered where we actually fished. It was south of the Highway 12 bridge.

I enjoyed my day with Don. At first I didn't know if we would hit it off, but I think he is a great guide and fisherman.

I make and sell each Bobo's Thumper personally. I've tested it on numerous lakes in Texas. I have people from all over the state ordering them.

I also have some in Oklahoma, but don't hold that against me. lol

You can check out my website at: www.bobosthumper.com or pm me with a number. I don't log in here often, so faster way is to check out the website.

[thumper]

Don called me this evening to say his clients have been catching a bunch of 20+ lbers. the last couple of weeks. He is using my thumper to call the shad in to the boat and the fish follow them in to have a bite to eat. He said a couple of his clients told him they were going to buy 2 thumpers each pretty soon. I did ship one out to a man in Kansas this past week. He said he was looking forward to increasing his catch rate and size of fish. If any of you are interested, shoot me an email, or give me a call. If I'm not around, leave a message  and I'll call you back in the evening.

[Stump bumper]

Why is there not a price on your web site? Is this one of those times if you need to ask, you can't afford it?