Well I got a late start last Saturday and ended up not going on the boat so I just went over to the marina right by my house. I had my little 6’9 G Loomis with a 3000 stradic using the world famous D.O.A Glow shrimp. That lure does work, I got to my usual snook hole and I make a cast and I’m about to pull the shrimp put of the water and I get whacked, I had a short but sweet fight with this fish I had 40lb flouro so I was able to hall it in. This was my first snook that I decided to keep this season because I got it first cast and it was a perfect length of 28.5 inches. The D.O.A glow shrimp NEVER fails me.

Chris L.

My name is Garrett Rogers and I'm an 18 year old college student at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. It was early on April 2nd, 2009 when I was on my way to work. My boss called me when I was half way to work and told me to wait another hour before I came which somewhat upset me but I figured I would make the best of it and make the short drive to North Padre island and fish for 30 minutes or so before I had to go back to work. I had heard that many local bait shop owners had been catching massive amounts of bait ranging from mullet to piggy perch at the dead end of a canal just south of Packery Channel which is one of the main waterways that runs from Corpus Christi Bay out into the Gulf. So I threw out about 5 casts into the dead center of the canal when all of a sudden my arm was nearly ripped out of its socket when my DOA Shrimp received a hard hit and then the fight was on! After about a 20 second fight I landed this massive snake-like fish that had teeth like an alligator and the top fin fluttered like an eel.WHAT IS THIS THING...A SEA MONSTER???!!!??? I was stunned and it took me a few seconds before I realized this was a massive ribbon fish. I had caught ribbon fish before but nothing more than a foot long or so. Nearby lay a 2 x 4 peice of wood which served as a great club to send the fish to the big fish oasis in the sky and also to save my fingers from being biten off by the 1/2 inch razor sharp teeth sticking out of its mouth. I thought to myself...this has to be a state record...i've never heard of anyone catching ribbons this big. So I threw the fish in the back of my truck and did my best to keep the truck speed limit below 95 mph on the way to the weigh in station due to my excitement of the catch. I scurried inside the weigh station and told them I needed a really long measuring tape and that I thought I had a state record.When they handed me a 37 inch measuring tape I chuckled a little bit and said "this thing aint long enough". They looked at me like I was crazy and that there was no way I had a ribbon fish that was longer then this tape. Finally they handed me standard construction style measuring tape and I rushed to the bed of my truck to measure with the interested weigh station employees following close behind. 51 Inches!!!!!! The employees could not beleive this thing was a ribbon fish. We then hurried to the closest computer to look up the previous state record. The old record was 39 inches long and weighed 1.75 pounds. The fish I caught on the DOA Shrimp measured 51 inches long and weighed in at 5 Lbs 2 Ounces. New state record! The next day my best fishin partner Travis (who taught me everything I know about saltwater fishing) and I went out to the same spot where I caught that ribbon. We continued to use DOA Shrimp with amazing results! Between the two of us we caught 15 ribbon fish that ALL beat the old state record of 39 inches. Every single one of these ribbons were above 40 inches long. Although we caught all of those my first giant ribbon still holds the record. My hats off for you guys at DOA for producing such a quality lure that allowed me to enjoy the fruits of the saltwater on those two days. I look forward to the coming days of warm Gulf water which will hopefully be filled with several more giant fish caught on DOA products.

I am writing this on behalf of my fifteen year old son Max Norman, who does not know I am doing this.   I just took up and started salt water flats fishing IRL in Fort Pierce, FL. January 2009.   After hiring a guide and learning some techniques and spots to fish I began catching fish on a regular basis and persuaded my son Max to come along a few times but he could never catch a fish or get the hang of pitching jigs.  So he decided flats fishing sucked and did not want to go anymore.  Well last weekend April 5th I convinced him to go one more time and try it again at IRL Fort Pierce, FL. between North bridge and Queens Cove on the east side.  Well it started out the same till it was suggested he tie on a DOA TerrorEyz 1/4oz. in pearl and just swim it back over the flats and grass pockets.   After about another twenty minutes of nothing he announced DOA TerrorEyz and flats fishing sucked!!! Guess what next cast his first trout and a 20" trout at that, then two or three more casts another nice 19+" trout and he is HOOKED!!!!  We caught and released more then a dozen and half different fish over a 3 hour trip. From the smile on his face, he is lovin this and note the TerrorEyz still attached.  But thats another whole story as it took him about five minutes handleing to get the hook out after the pic was taken.
 
I have to thank DOA lures for saving fishing with my son.
 
I love and use almost exclusivly your DOA cal jigs, shad tails, jerk baits, and shrimp.  Everything fishes so easy and swims so realistically with good directions and very simple rigging for even a novice.
 
It would be so neat for him to win your testimonial, story of the week and have his picture on your website and surprise him with a DOA t shirt, size adult small.
 
Sincerely,
James B.

Max in the winner of a D.O.A. Tee shirt.

From: Jason Stock
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 8:27 PM
Subject: The Past week of fishing

Hey guys,

This last week was a action packed week of fishing. Sunday night Me and my buddy Brian threw in the yaks and got on some nice snook. I ended up getting a 24, 26 and a 34 and my buddy Brian ended up getting a 26'. We both were throwing the DOA CAL Jigs I was using the arkansas glow and he was using the greenie on a 1/4 ounce Jig Head. They were busting the mullet pretty hard,and we made it back to the house in an hour and a half. So Monday me and my brother Jeremy went out after we closed down the shop. I got a chance to try out the new Wilderness Systems Ride 135 which is really actually a extremely stable boat and it kept up with the Tarpon 140 with no problem. Anyways 2ND cast caught a nice fat 34 inch snook and ended up getting 4 more snook 22-32 inches and my brother got 3 from 22-26 inches on the same CAL arkansas glow on a 1/4 ounce jig head and they are just crushing the jigs. Same deal as the night before made it back to the house in about an hour and a half. Wednesday the conditions were pretty nasty so I jumped on Tyson from Dogfish Tackle's boat and his buddy Justin who used to work at Dogfish but now is a commercial fisherman for Salt Rock. We put in at Bellair Boat framp with the wind blowing at least 25 mph we were able to tuck behind a couple of islands on the lee side and ended up finally getting some real nice trout pretty much every cast was a good thing to see using the CAL, Spooks, and 17MR. Had a few nice blow up by big snook on the Spook. Tyson ended up managing getting this nice 33 inch snook which surprisingly hit it three times before he was hooked. So we slid way up in the Inter coastal I was ready with the Cal and was able to manage 4 snook between 20-27 inches and showed them how deadly the CAL can be. For a ruff day of weather we did pretty good. Friday I had the Opportunity to fish on my buddy's 43 Cabo for the King Of the Beach Tournament we didn't end up getting the King. We had the right bait and just wasn't place, but we made it look good.

Till next time,
Jason Stock
JMSnooky Kayak Charters

From: Mark "CooKnFish" Bellotte
To: cooknfish@knology.net
Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2006 4:17 PM
Subject: Snook Thumb

My thumb is a little roughed up after this afternoon. The snook are stacked up in the backwaters and feeding pretty well. They were crashing schools of mullet and ladyfish that moved up and down the creek. My CAL Greenback (419) shadtail got whacked a few times too. Here's some pics.

Until next time... Who says you can't have your fish and eat it too?

Mark "CooKnFish" Bellotte

From: "Alex Schulze"
To: <jerry@doalures.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 11:16 PM

It was getting near sunset when i got the nerve wrecking THUMP. I had been fishing the D.O.A. glow 1/4 shrimp all day and had been doing excellent. I set the hook on the fish and it made a tremendous run out into the pass. After three more tremendous runs and a ten minute fight, it turned out to be a 34.5 inch bull redfish. The head on this redfish was bigger than mine! This was an amazing catch thanks to the help of D.O.A. The only lures that i use are the D.O.A lures and they have been an amazing help with me catching fish. Thank you for such an amazing product!

for Marco River Marina,
Alex Schulze

From: Jon
To: jerry@doalures.com
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 2:00 PM

On the last jaunt of my four day weekend, i decided to fish a bridge and a few docks. Plan was to get up at 5AM go wake up Ian...then head to the bridge. Alarm goes of at 5AM, but i just couldn't do it, i waited another hour to get up...6AM rolls around and a knock myself out of the bed, "ITS TIME TO FISH!"

I go to Ian's house, get him up, then we off...to get food. Its our thing, we like to eat =) We got some breakfast, THEN we were off! When we got there the tide was extremely high, higher than it showed on the tide chart. (Our original plan was to go wading) Glass minnows were everywhere! It just looked way to fishy. We climb on down, and fished for a little while. I was throwing a 4" Pearl fire tail jerk-bait on a 1/16th DOA jig-head, and Ian was throwing a Capt. Mike spoon. Ian was casting in the general direction of the minnows, and i was casting a little further to the side and towards a dock Something ran through the glass minnows and made a few nice pops, and i cast. I got a hit but in the ruckas of reeling in my line in the wind, the line wrapped around my spool and i lost it.

On our way over to the other side of the river, we spotted a few jacks then we ran over to catch up with them! We made it to the opening, and start casting for the jacks. First cast, i didn't feel and thumps, but something to the right of me, caught my eye. A nice shadow, over some sand was swifting in the tide. SNOOK! "Hey Ian check out that snook i said". Kind of funny after i think that is all i said in a calm manner...I reeled up my line, cocked back my rod, BAD CAST! The fish didn't spook, he just sat there in the tide swifting back and forth. He knew we were there, so would he eat? Only one more cast could tell... Cocked back the rod again, it wasn't a great cast, but i worked it anyway. Slowly bouncing it, hoping to kick up some sand, the fish seen it. =). There she goes! SHE ATE IT!

The fish didn't even attack the lure, just slowly picked it up. I gave it a second, then set the hook! The fish didn't take off, stayed in one place, shook her head, i bowed, THEN she moved. She swam parallel to land, not making any big runs at first. She made a few nice, slow motion head shakes, but amazingly she didn't spit the hook. She swam left and then a little to the right until i tired her out and brought her right to the land. "IAN GET THE GRIPS!" I hollered. He did his job well, getting the grips right to me ASAP! ;) The fish has been landed! He even had a Remora stuck to him! How cool is that..... I still couldn't believe the fish ate it after a bad cast, and the fish seen us standing there.

A few pictures were taken, and the fish was released. He measured about 33" 1/2 natural lay, so im thinking it would have went a little over 34" pinched? In that case it would be considered over slot! But for now ill just call it, "Top of the slot!" My biggest snook yet! Im so excited...

Tight lines,

Jon mulliken - P13A

From: Jonathan Matthews
To: jerry@doalures.com
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 8:28 AM
Subject: Picture Contest

I was out fishing with my dad in our pond in our backyard. This pond isn't a newly stocked pond, we have caught fish in their that have been 13+, landed them, and weighed them on a certified BogaGrip. Well we were out fishing with some shiners and we didn't get anything the hole entire day. I mean not even a float moved. We threw some topwaters and didn't get anything. We couldn't believe it. I had my little light tackle out fit, I looked down in my tackle box for anything that I could use, I hooked up a Rapala X-RAP, and caught nothing, still. I looked down again to this box, I glanced over the Storm Lures, that did me no good today. I then looked into my saltwater section of my tackle box. We had already used a Zara Spook, so it was already out. I decided to tie on a 1/4 Oz 3 in DOA Pearl Shrimp. I cast it out, around some lillypads and was jigging it on the bottom, I feal a strong tug and no run. I thought to my self "Catfish". I then ripped off about 100 yards of my Powerpro. I looked at my reel and I could see the backing. I then tighted my drag and started to reel. I kept feeling strong tugs. Maybe a carp? on a shrimp? nah. I then felt slack in my line. "BAM" The fish jumped out of the water like a whale jumps out of the water. I landed with a big splash and took another line stripping run. I then tighted my drag, even more! I then reeled in the fish with no problem at all. I lifted the fish out of the water with my Bogagrip and placed him on the ground to take the hook out. I am sitting on my knee's and I look up to my dad. He is there with his mouth wide open, his jaw touching the ground. I said "Whats amater?", All he did was pointed. I took a look at the fish. It was gigantic. I lifted the fish up and weighed him on the Boga Grip. 15lbs 6oz, A MONSTER. There was egg's dripping out of her stomach. We snatched a picture of her, and then revived her and then she was on her way. ALL ON A DOA LURE, THE ONE THAT CATCHES THEM ALL. Thanks for everything I have caught 20+ species on your shrimp, I have tried Gulp Shirmp, Storm Shrimp, but yours is the best.

From: Mark "CooKnFish" Bellotte
To: DOA Mark Nichols ; DOA Jerry
Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 4:07 PM
Subject: The Flats Pirate

Hey guys,
Hope all is well. Just thought you might want to see the new pirate flag on the kayak.

Until next time... Who says you can't have your fish and eat it too?

Mark "CooKnFish" Bellotte

From: Glenn
To: jerry@doalures.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 10:09 PM
Subject: photos and questions

Hi,

My name is Glenn from Boca Raton. I have been wanting to write for awhile just to let you guys know of my recent discovery that the bass in the canal behind my house love the DOA baitbuster. I went online today to see what other colors you have and if I can buy them in bulk because they have been working so well both for saltwater and freshwater fish.

Yesterday I caught 2 small jacks on the same black/grayglitter baitbuster ( I'm not sure which one but it has a silver hook that comes out the front. It seems to run fairly shallow, so I guess it could be the shallow runner or trolling version.) The one I used today to catch the bass was definitely the shallow version.

After checking out the info on the baitbusters, I noticed your contest and went outside and caught these 2 bass within about 20 minutes. I'd say they're both about 2 lbs. maybe a little heavier. Not too big, but not bad for less than 30 minutes of fishing. I wish I had a good fight story like the last guy with the snook but these are just bass you know. Im hoping to catch some more out there soon and may send in some more pictures of bigger fish if thats allowed. I also couldn't include myself in the pics because it was just me out there. You aren't missing anything special there though.

Thanks Glenn