Quote Originally Posted by SeaRay View Post
However, the striper guides swear they can call up stripers by banging a pole on the bottom of the boat. This is when the stripers are down 50 feet or more. They claim the vibrations mimic schools of shad being hit by predator fish and they come up to investigate.
I actually saw a fishing program where they were on Clark Hill I think and did that and you could see the stripers on the DF coming up from the depth. I think it was Allen Warren Outdoors.
Never tried it myself.Might be a bunch of Hooey.
This "thumping" for stripers works! I've seen it in action with my own two eyes. This past Sunday I fished with a friend down around the dam for stripers. We would mark a fish or two around humps and throw a marker buoy out to mark the spot. We'd set up shop in close proximity to the marker buoy and he'd start banging on the bottom of his fiberglass boat with a pole. The depthfinder would start out relatively blank and when he'd start bumping fish would start shooting across the screen. It definitely brought the stripers in!