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Hydrowave
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02/08/24 03:26 PM
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T Bird
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Any of you White Bass aficionado's use one?
Okie by birth, Texan by choice. USAF "Thunderbirds" Alumni 1985-1989
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Re: Hydrowave
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02/08/24 07:00 PM
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CHAMPION FISH
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I had one early on when they first come out. I was not impressed with it and sold it to a bass fisherman friend. A thumper works amazingly well if that is what you are looking for.
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Re: Hydrowave
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02/09/24 12:17 PM
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T Bird
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I had one early on when they first come out. I was not impressed with it and sold it to a bass fisherman friend. A thumper works amazingly well if that is what you are looking for. Familiar with the thumper & splasher. Just curious and trying to get feedback if the Hydrowave is effective for attracting/holding Whites/Strippers.
Okie by birth, Texan by choice. USAF "Thunderbirds" Alumni 1985-1989
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Re: Hydrowave
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02/09/24 12:30 PM
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Holding The Line
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I had one early on when they first come out. I was not impressed with it and sold it to a bass fisherman friend. A thumper works amazingly well if that is what you are looking for. Familiar with the thumper & splasher. Just curious and trying to get feedback if the Hydrowave is effective for attracting/holding Whites/Strippers. T'Bird, as you know, I offer on-the-water sonar training classes aboard my clients' vessels. Through the years I have had an opportunity to observe the Hydrowave in action dozens of times, primarily on the boats of bass tournament anglers. Bottom line: I did not see anywhere near the kind of interest in the Hydrowave compared to the attraction which splashers/thumpers produce when we searched for and found white bass during these clients' training sessions. I'll go one further and tell you that I also believe the "thumper by speaker" approach, although of interest to whites & hybrids, is not as effective as an actual thumper. Two summers ago I actually dove down beneath my own boat while my wife remained in the boat and alternated between turning my thumper on and off and turning a speaker linked to a metronome program on my smart phone on and off. The thump from the thumper was much more distinct and far reaching than was the noise from the speaker-generated device.
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Re: Hydrowave
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02/09/24 12:49 PM
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Okie by birth, Texan by choice. USAF "Thunderbirds" Alumni 1985-1989
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