I was Catfishing Benbrook last Weekend and noticed 2 Hybrid/Sandie boats thumping.
What�s yalls Opinions on thumping.? Helps? Does nothing? Worth a try.?

Find stratified bait and thump with an oar, cane, rubber mallet etc. The fish will show up within minutes. Up to you to figure out their biting preference. I have been thumping for over 8 years, works hands down by far better than not.

Were the whitebass/hybrid guys catching fish? Many,many fish have met hot grease at my house, due to thumpers/splashers.

Pretty Slow last Weekend for Us and the Hybrid guys that I saw......we were drifting they were spot locked - he said it�d been Slow.

Check this out and decide for yourself...

https://youtu.be/BCVDlEG5dSA

If you are not thumping, then you are missing an opportunity to catch more fish. Two hours slabbing,1 white. Same spot, same slab, thumping, last hour 65 fish. That is the math that convinced me.

Guess I gotta build me a thumper box.......

it's all in your head....hah.

Great video.

What would be interesting is to get near a school and use Livescope and see how the fish react to it. I guess that would be a defining moment, wouldn�t it?

Now that would be a great idea. I'm gonna need to pull together $2500 for a livescope system...

I took my thumper to texoma last fall. We were marking fish and getting bites but the bite had slowed. Broke out the thumper and turned it on and picked up two striper. Waited a bit and cranked it up a little and picked up another again almost instantly. I am convinced they work but that�s just me...

In the mid sixties I fished with a guy Named Glade Reed he had a tin boat . He used a rubber mallet on the bottom of the boat. That was the first I seen what we have always
called sand bass boogie. I have seen everything used, rubber mallets,canes. I have always used my hand. the mechanical thumpers work that a lot of people make. They do work
but no way to prove they do or don't. My opionion is they do.
Johnny

I'm not sure what you would learn from Livescope but I fished with Bob Maindelle of Holding the Line Guide Service and watched the school come up under the boat on Livescope. He was using his own design thumper and the school of fish appeared around the slab lures we were using. We caught several and the school moved in and out under the boat. We did not test the no thumping part of the trial but the fish showed up every time we started thumping at each location we tried. I believe that it is a valuable tool to help catch fish.

It�s not magic. You have to be able to find fish first. Then you have to get them in the mood to bite.
Some times there all ready biting. I let them eat when they are and use thumping and splashing to fire them up when they slow down or are not biting.