Fished last weekend with Josh Sutton from Southern Wind guide service, he uses my thumper so he spent some time showing me how he uses his. Last weekend was awesome and this weekend was epic! The fish were super responsive to the thumper and stayed under the boat! Josh had double limits and a really nice over, Tyler had 30 and Ivan and I caught 18! With the temperature dropping the fish are really responding!

https://youtu.be/kmyj0aROPDo

Solid post and sold fish. Good job.

Tyler caught more fish this morning trolling to find active schools and then thumping and slabbing to catch them!

Can't wait for the water temps to drop a little more. It's gonna be a blast the next few weeks.

How is the afternoon and evening bite now.?

I would try swimbaits along the edges of flats or Tyler was trolling a hellbender pet spoon combination and dropping slabs on the school when he hooked up. That worked for him all weekend.

Hey Eric, this is Tylers buddy Travis. We were fishing my boat that weekend and had great success with the Hell bender pet spoon combo like you said. Fishing in 20-30ft of water. Most of the fish seemed to be on the smaller side that time and we had trouble getting deeper down to target the larger fish. Couldn't drop the spoon down fast enough on them. Have you been having luck catching live bait lately? Im used to finding them in the platter flatts area in the spring but haven't searched for them since then. The thumper is a great addition to the fishing arsenal. Highly recommend.

Hey Travis, the Striper are pushing the shad into the coves pretty shallow. I have been able to catch them when I see them flickering on top. You have to weed through the extra large ones to get the 4” fish that I was getting the most bites on.

Has Texoma turned over?

We went this morning, got on a bunch of them stacked up by the BC sign at Briar Creek, in about 35 foot of water. Looked like an exploding volcano underwater on the fish finder. We had caught some dinks, and 4 good box Sandies earlier. But trolled through this stack and pulled a couple 7 pounders and a 9 pounder out.

Turnover is over. Fishing was great today my arms are sore from catching so many!!

Ok, good to know. I am thinking about heading up Weds morning.

what size pet spoon new to stripper fishing ,

Wind was tough today so found them in Creek branches off the main lake. We caught them on smaller shad and lucked out and caught a nice box and some sandbass during some mid afternoon topwater action.

I will ask Tyler what size he uses. I troll with Captain Mack’s A rigs...