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-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Sxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, 15 October, 2006 11:32
To: bob.damico@stripersurf.com
Subject: Your Rigs

Hi Bob,
Thank you for getting my last minute order shipped before your vacation. I rigged up the Shock Leaders on Friday night, no problem, just followed the directions for the Albright knot. It was easy and, this sounds dumb, but I felt a lot more confident with your leaders.

Saturday was the best day of the year for me, there were schools of bunker all over the beach with a lot of big bass! I used two rods. One rod with a Penn Slammer bait runner reel with a bunker chunk on your Tournament Trophy Bait Rig with a 8/0 circle hook and your FishFinder. That one was in a spike. The second rod was rigged with clams on the High Low rig with 7/0 Octopus hooks.

I was very "busy" for almost two hours, what a blast, I scored a lot of "near keepers" but also had 3 of my biggest bass of the year. The top one weighed 32.75 pounds. I don't know which rig worked the best, I was running back and forth. I think your recommendation to use the two different rigs all the time is right on!

Hey Bob!

Fished Dems here on Long Island. Outstanding, I outfished everyone in my group. There were 6 of us and I usually catch the least and smallest stripers! For every fish one of my friends caught, I caught 2! When I hooked up with what ended up being the biggest striper of the day I knew it just wasn't my luck, it was your rigs. I finally had to give each of my friends a rig but not until very late in the day. :-) Sending you another stocking order today!

Sincerely,
JPI

-----Original Message-----
From: MD
Sent: Sunday, 28 May, 2006 23:47
To: bob.damico@stripersurf.com
Subject: StriperSurf Rigs

Thank you so much for creating the best fishing rig out there. Today I brought in a 60 Lb 50 inch (Black) drum off the surf and I know if I had any other rig out there it would of easily broke. I have been using this same rig for most of the season and its still holding strong after all the abuse I put it through. I just wanted to say by far you have the best rig out there bar none! This catch wouldn't of been possible without it. Your Trophy Hi Low Rigs are the best.

Michael Didomenico

Bob,

Many thanks for your terrific rigs, best I've ever used. My casting distance was improved and they were actually easier to cast. Mainly I like them because they catch fish! Had a great weekend, lots of stripers, in fact so many I am now an official catch and release fisherman. Biggest striper was 29 and 3/4 pounds. Not too shabby!

Thanks again,
RBD

Bob,

Your rigs are the best. Had a great day, caught over a dozen stripers, 7 were keepers, I released all but one. That one was 34 pounds! What a fight! I fished with the same rig all day long, they really can take a beating! I am ordering more now, just in case. ;)

Thanks,
GG

Dear Mr. D'Amico,

I promised myself that I would email you before I hit the sack last night but I was too exhausted. You gave my family an experience that we will be talking about for years - our best day fishing! From early morning until we left the beach at 10:00 PM last night we caught so many fish we lost track of the number. All day long we caught and released dozens and dozens of stripers and blues. We even had doubles of bluefish on the same rig! I have twin boys (14 years) and twin girls, (12 years) as you can imagine they are quite a group and the competition is fierce at times! It was a pretty even match but the girls won! My wife said yesterday was the only day she can remember that the kids didn't have a spat, they competed but they helped whoever had a fish on their rod. We kept two bass which we will eat for dinner tonight!

Many, many THANKS!,
BL

Hi Bob,

Used your rig for the first time this weekend. The results were phenomenal. In less than an hour hooked up with two 20-25 pounders and a couple of shorts. Please bear in mind that I've been going out every weekend with absolutely no luck. I just put in the order that should last me the rest of summer. Let me know if you have any issues with it. Thank you again for everything.

Best regards,
JC

Thank, thank you, thank you!!!! The best day of my life!. The bunker were all over the place this morning and easy to snag. Three hours livelining but we couldn't get a bass to hit the bunker on a treble hook. I took a live bunker attached it to the top hook of your High Lo rig and put a chunk on the bottom hook. I just dropped the rig over board and let it fall to the bottom, about 25 feet. Felt it hit bottom and then BLAM, the line started peeling off my reel. My brother yelled set the hook, "SET THE HOOK!" but I followed your directions and let it go. After what seemed like forever I flipped the drag on and that circle hook set itself. After 5 minutes I had a 33 pound bass alongside the boat!

I gave a rig to my brother and buddy and we caught 11 more bass in the next hour, we released 8. They were all between 25 and 30 pounds! Five hit the live bunker and 6 hit the chunk. On two occasions as we were bringing a bass to the boat another bass swept in close, it was awesome!

We were exhausted and headed back to the marina early. When we got back to the gas dock the kid looked at us and said, "Bad Day, no ones getting any stripers" My brother said Yea, and opened the fish box and the cooler box. I wish you could have seen the look on his face, PRICELESS. When he asked "Where?" I answered "Not where, HOW and told him to check out Stripersurf.com.

If you don't get an order from my brother Dxxxxxx Rxxxxxx this week let me know, he has to buy 3 sets of rigs for our next trip. He lost the pool!!
PR

Thanks, Bob. Nice fish. Glad you got the time to fish. Quick note on your rigs. Fished Bxxxxxxxxx last Week and had 2 stripers and lost one. My 2 buddies fishing different rigs did not even have a bite. Enjoy your weekend.
RB

Thank you so very much... A friend let me borrow your rig and I landed 3 35+ pound stripers within 3 hours off the shores on Cape Cod. Truly amazing...

Thanks again!!

Dear Bob,

The High Low Rig was a great success at Hither Hills this past Saturday 6/5/04. While everyone around me pulled in skates and dogfish I reeled in a 14 pound Striper. He hit a clam belly on the top rig, seconds after the sinker hit bottom. I couldn't believe that there was a striper on the line almost instantly! Many thanks, Your rigs are incredible.

Best Regards
Rick McQxxxx

Bob D I can only say one thing about your Hi-Low bait rigs "STUPENDOUS". I had a little competition with a friend last month, he brags about how many stripers he catches with his very SPECIAL hand tied rigs his brother makes. We were @ Raritan Bay 11:30P-2:30A [two poles ea.,same bait] He nailed 1 Short 18", I brought in 1 - 21 & 23,1 - 26" & a 29". He really got pi$$ed when I let them have another chance to be caught again. I continually rub him the wrong way about The Hi-Low Rigs. Eventually he will buy some, I know it!

Today I was showing a gentleman the site when my hi-low rigs arrived. I told him he must use them, upon inspecting them, he said he sees why I catch an abundance of stripers. His statement regarding the rigs was, I have to buy some. Thanx Neal

HEY BOB - THEY WORK IN RHODE ISLAND TOO! Went out last night with my buddy Ted. He always beats me up but last night I beat his ass! When I took out the High Low rig he laughed at me. Ten minutes later I yelled over to him to help me land the first bass! Even with two good sized chunks on the High Low I was able to get out farther than ever before, we know there's a ledge just out of reach but not last night, I got there and took 6 bass within 2 hours. Meanwhile Ted was eeling and kept moving closer to me. Finally he asked me for a rig and then he went and took 3 fish. None of them were trophies, but they were all healthy keepers. The biggest was mine, about 38 inches, maybe 25 pounds. Wahoo!

Dear Bob, Thank you so much, you gave us a night we will never forget. We got to the spot ... around 7:00 PM and set up two rods with high low rigs. One rod had clams and the other bunker chunk. At first I wasn't sure I correctly identified the cut in the bar even though the tide was low but you were right, the bass came right in as it got dark and the flood started. My son Bill landed the first bass after 15 or 20 minutes and then we were into fish, left and right. Billy said all his fish took the top hook, I think 3 quarters of mine were also on the top hook.

The fish were THICK, at least to me. I was really sweating it out since I only had 3 rigs but they held up great and we actually ran out of clams and bunker. Billy broke his personal best, 19 pounds, damn good for an 11 year old in his first year of surf fishing. We brought that one home. God bless you!

Bob - I cut the bunker and hooked them like you instructed. I couldn't believe it, we were bangin bass all day. My bud Sal was using a XXXXX chunking rig but wasn't catching anything until I sold him one of your High Low rigs. He may be my buddie but your rigs were like gold yesterday. I've tried to tie them myself but I don't make them half as good as yours. I am ordering two more sets today. I think Sal is going to order his own. Do you put some kinda magic stuff on them? :-) Thanks Steve

I used your high low rig up in Maine last week. After I caught three times as many stripers as my companions ( and anyone else on the beach), they began to suspect that my angling wizardry was not the only reason for the difference. We therefore conducted a test of three different terminal tackle arrangements. We caught 3 stripers on the high low bait rig and none on either of the other rigs. Your rig made several converts on our beach! Just wanted to thank you and apprise you of our success.

Bob,
I am about to place an order online for 6 more sets of high low rigs. Total will be $90.00 but I don't want you to email me back to doublecheck because my wife uses this email account also. She will not understand :-)

I had my best day fishing ever, caught more stripers and blues than any day since I started fishing 12 years ago! You may not believe this but I had double hook ups, not once but twice! We were drift fishing near xxxxxxxxx with bunker chunks with only an occasional 4 or 5 lb blue when I decided to try the high low rig on the next drift. All of a sudden my rod was jerked down and then jerked much harder, the drag started screaming and I was being pulled all over the bay. I couldn't get any line back at first but thank God for braid! I made my brother Dan backdown the boat so I could get some line on my reel. It took about 20 minutes, we thought it must be a huge striper but it wasn't. It was two stripers, one was over 20 pounds and the second was around 12 pounds! What a riot getting them both in the boat! The two fish ruined the rig but it was worth it!

I attached a new rig and the same thing happened about 30 minutes later but this time it was a 15 pound bass and a 10 pound bluefish. That pair was incredible. I was lucky that the bluefish hit the top hook so we were able to get it off and release it to get to the bass. That rig was destroyed by the bluefish, leaving me with one. Dan and I shared the last rig for the rest of the tide. We each boated 4 more bass from 10 pounds up to the biggest a 34 pounder! That one was Dan's.

Now you know why I'm ordering 6 more sets of rigs!!! No way I would have boated either of those double hook ups with a regular rig. Your 60 pound line and big barrel swivels are NOT overkill! Can you get me all the new rigs by Thursday? Please!!!!

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