Tinker's Lake Texoma
Striper Fishing Guide Service
What
our 2001 Customers had to say.
Wed,
26 Dec 2001
Tinker,
I would like to say thanks to Mike for a wonderful day on the OK side of
the lake fishing. Gordon and I were impressed with Mike's knowledge of
the Lake and habits of the stripers. Mike even took us on a couple of short
detours to spot some bald eagles. There were no disappointments in our
day, or the trip, and I can't wait to get on the Lake again.
Bill
Smith, Carrollton, TX |
| We
had a great time and were totally satisfied with the service. Captain
Joe was a great guide. We intend to go out again and will ask for
Joe as our guide.
Thanks
again and God Bless,
Jim
Waller |
| We
had a great time and enjoyed our day of fishing though it was not a "limit"
day. I enjoy the reports although it is frustrating to hear that
they are biting and not being available to fish. :-)
Jonette |
| Hello
Tinker. I was part of the group that came with Ricky Shinn on November
17, 2001. I really like your guide service. I have had some
of the best times of my life fishing with you and your guides. You
got me hooked. I will be coming back time and time again. Tell
Mike we said hello. I look forward to coming back and catching more
striper.
Thanks,
Wesley
Roden
Maintenance
Supervisor, Clear Channel Outdoor |
| Had
a great time fishing with Mike November 17. Everybody was extremely pleased.
Look forward to coming back.
Ricky
Shinn,
Eller
Media |
| Tinker,
I was at you place with Johnstone Supply on Nov. 3rd and we had a great
time. The cabins were very clean and nice.
Charlie
Naron |
October
9, 2001
Tinker,
Joe Grigar was our guide and he did a very good job and there were no complaints
about the lodging or the fishing. A very good time was had by all. I wish
he had been with us in Louisiana the rest of the week as we may have been
able to find fish there also. Thank you for a memorable time and I plan
on getting back down there next spring.
Best
Regards,
Larry
Meggison |
October
4, 2001
My
wife and I fished with Mike last Thursday and had a very enjoyable time.
He is a great guide and worked hard to put us on fish on a tough day.
We caught our share, but more importantly, had a great day.
We
would, and will, recommend Mike to our friends.
Tom
and Keely Roney, Dallas |
| Tinker,
We have been covered up with work. The Bode's Construction crew would
like to thank you and Joe for the fine hospitality. We enjoyed our
fishing trip on August 30 and 31 very much. Our friends at Coldwell
Banker Real Estate put the pictures of us up in their office. Every one
in town was talking about our trip. The lodging was very nice and clean.
We link your website to our local site. Tell We Joe we will be there
in the spring, so keep track of the stripers. We are planning a May
trip.
Thanks
again. John and Jeff (Bode) Dalton, Doug Cousins and Josh Stockwell
P.S.
Tinker be sure and hang on to Joe. Also, we enjoy the updates by
email.
See
you in the spring and have a nice winter.
John
Dalton |
| I
had a grrrrrrrrrreat time on September 15th! Our guide was Mike and
he was really good. Don't change a thing. I am looking forward
to using my gift certificate.
Sue
Hooper |
| I
would like to report that I thoroughly enjoyed the entire experience.
Our guide was Dan and he is wonderful. I am looking forward to my
next trip.
Teri
Tillerson |
| Dear
Tinker, Good Morning! My first fishing trip with a group of co-workers
was fabulous. Our guide was most helpful and had a great sense of
humor. He was very patient and his only comment when we "lost" a
striper was "you are killing me"! That cracked me up! If there
is one thing I would like to see improved is have some kind of restroom
facilities...I don't particularly care for roughing it out" in the woods,
if you know what I mean. Other than that, I thoroughly enjoyed the
experience and welcome the opportunity to go fishing again! Have
a great day,
Alma
Castillo,
Highland
Homes, Ltd |
| Tinker,
I've been fishing with your service a total of 3 times. All 3 times
we used Joe as the guide. Joe is very good at accommodating.
You know as well as I do that a GREAT guide service has to be very accommodating....
the guide doesn't have to be the best angler on the water but he does have
to be very accommodating. Joe is a true asset to your organization.
3 buddies and me stayed at your cabin on our last trip during August.
The cabin was clean and the air conditioner worked well, very important
during August. I will come back, and I will stay at your cabin and I'll
ask that Joe be our guide. I read each and every message that you
send, please keep me ON you mailing list.
Kevin
Chelette,
Irving
Texas |
| Tinker,
Thanks again for a great trip. The pictures are great!! We
have made a lot of the people in the company very jealous.
Thanks
again,
Jeff
McCoy |
| Tinker,
Enjoyed the trip in August very much. I fished with Richie Smith
and caught the big catfish in the boat slip. The fishing was very
good. Big un was our guide and it was obvious that he knew his business.
I would recommend your service and hope to fish with you again when we
return to Texas later this fall. You have one heck of a web site &
I enjoy your email.
Gary
Schur |
August
31, 2001
You
folks were great as was my guide. I will be back again. A couple of points
worth mentioning when I got home with my son I spent an hour "Butchering
up the fish I caught" because I was told I had to clean I guess a membrane
from the back of the fish. I thought the guide cleaned the ENTIRE fish
so that certainly was my biggest issue.
Steven
Potaniec |
| Wednesday
August 22, 2001
Tinker,
Thanks
again for a great trip. The pictures are great!! We have made
a lot of the people in the company very jealous.
Thanks
again, Jeff McCoy |
| Wednesday
August 22, 2001
Tinker,
I would like for you to continue sending me your updates. As a matter of
fact, I believe I will have you in the DALLAS MORNING NEWS tomorrow in
my column.
Take
care, Luke Clayton |
| Tuesday
August 21, 2001
Tinker
- I definitely still want to receive your Lake Texoma Fishing Report.
I enjoy reading it and believe our readers do also. Thanks and have a great
week! Allen
Shannon,
Texas Hunting & Fishing Network, http://www.texashuntfish.com.
The premiere online hunting and fishing community for Texas.
|
| Tuesday
August 21, 2001
Hello
Tinker,
This
is the lady that loves to striper fish) Aimee, the one that is kissing
the fish. I am sure you remember me!!
ps.
I am loving those pictures and tell Joe I said hi!!! I have never had so
much fun in my life fishing!!!
Aimee
Sutton |
| Date,
Sunday August 19, 2000--time EARLY!!
Place
your boat house. Fishing was great fun, the guides were helpful and courteous,
the clients were assholes, and the boats were in superb condition for fishing
and the equipment very nice. We had a nice catch and good fellowship was
had by all. Looking forward to the next trip.
Thanks
Tinker, say hello to Sam, Joe and all. Come see us. JK |
| Monday
July 23, 2001
Tinker,
Thanks
for the trips the past two weeks. I fished with my dad one trip and a friend
from OK Wednesday. Capt. Mitch Raglan treated us right both
times! We murdered 'em. Fishing was great fun and professional.
I am sold on yall! Can't wait to make another trip, probably October.
Thanks for emailing the pics as well, now I can show people the catch and
not tell some old fishing story.
Todd
West |
| Saturday
July 21, 2001
Tinker,
I
just wanted to drop you a line and tell you how much we enjoyed our fishing
trip. We didn't know what to expect due to the heat, but Captain
Joe had us our limit in no time flat. We had four and five fish on
at a time and we could hear the radio reports from other guide services
looking for the fish. Everywhere Joe took us the other boats followed,
which is a pretty good indication that we had the best guide on the lake.
We'll
be sure to tell our friends about you and we'll be back to fish with you
again. It's worth the 5 hour drive.
Thanks,
Mitch
Williams
Magnolia,
TX |
Wednesday,
July 17, 2001
Well
Tinker, Todd and I had a better fishing trip this week than we did last
week and I did not think that was possible. You have an extraordinary outfit
and the fishing is superb. The summer fishing with you guys has been a
really exciting time. I look forward to the next trip. We appreciate what
you have put together and I hope you keep on keeping on. You have my curiosity
up for the fall fishing and the winter.
Thanks,
Bob West |
| Friday,
July 13, 2001
Tinker,
I’d just like to express to you how thrilled we were and still are about
our trip today. UNBELIEVABLE!!! I've never had the opportunity to fish
with the likes of PRO guide Capt. Mitch Ragland, he was remarkable, you
sure know how to pick'um. We came in with a box of fish you couldn’t
close the lid on thanks to Mitch's knowledge of striper patterns and Lake
Texoma, while it seemed everyone else was on the radio or phone trying
to figure out where the fish were Mitch was there, making it happen!
Fishing for him came as easy as breathing for me, although we had never
fished with slabs before Mitch's guidance had us crankin'um in. Thanks
for letting us fish with him.
Thanks
Mitch |
| Friday,
July 13, 2001
Todd
and I want to think you for the greatest fishing we have ever had.
Mitch was superior as a guide. I don't know how you put it all together
but you have a special thing going. I predict we will have a six-month
waiting list shortly as more people find out what a great fishing event
you put together for people. We had a blast and we are on tap for
another trip next week. I don't know what you pay Mitch or where you found
him, but don't lose him. You're number one on our list of great times
had. We both hunt and fish, and I believe the stripper fishing at Texoma
with your crew was about the best fishing trip I ever had.
Thanks
again.
Bob
West |
| Thursday,
July 12, 2001
Thank
you for the pictures. I really meant to write on Monday to tell you
"THANK YOU" so much, they had a blast. I know they will remember the fishing
trip for a very long time to come. Joseph & Rock had just as
good of a time as the boys did.
Thank
you Tinker and I hope you are feeling better.
Beth |
| Thursday,
July 12, 2001
Tinker
and Company,
Having
enjoyed on average 3 guided stripper trips a year for the last several
years with you I am long over due in submitting this testimonial. I also
wanted to let you know that our most recent outing in early July, 2000
was one of the best. Joe as always was a great guide, he is a pleasure
to be in the boat with as well as extremely skilled in finding fish.
The fact that whenever Joe made a move on the lake a massive number of
boats followed us was impressive. The amount of pride Joe takes in
his job shows, having more meat in the live well than we could ever
eat by 11am and only 4 fish from our legal limit we tried to call it a
day..... that big #@$^^$# kept us out till we caught those last 4
fish.
I
hope you get to feeling better here soon Tinker, tell Sam, Joe, Tom, Kenny,
and the rest I said hello.
Troy,
#@%&, Fight, and Fish Inc., Dallas, TX |
| Thursday,
June 7, 2001
Hi
Tinker, hope you are feeling better. Zip, my brother, and I had a
good time last week fishing with Joe.
Gary
Conaway |
| Wednesday,
June 6, 2001
Tinker,
great job last Sunday afternoon for the 2 lawyers from Dallas. It
was a tough day to be trying to fish in the wind but our guide kept trying
different tricks. He has some solid fishing skills and he made the
trip a pleasant experience for us. You seem to have a great program
- I look forward to working with you in the future.
Bill
Shaw |
| Wednesday
June 6, 2001
Tinker,
Good
morning, we want to thank you for the wonderful time we had fishing on
Monday, June 4,
We
thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and we thought Joe was one hell of a guide.
I
received your pictures you sent me.
Thank
you.
Charlie
Gilmore |
| Monday,
May 28, 2001
Thanks
a lot for the pictures, We had an excellent time.
Tony
Tomlinso |
| Monday,
May 21, 2001
Tinker,
just wanted to thank you and your crew for a Wonderful time this weekend.
We had so much fun. We will be back. Look forward to seeing
you next time. I'll email you the pictures from our trip when I get
them developed.
Thanks,
Sherry
Gower |
| Tuesday
May 15, 2001
I
just wanted to express my thanks for an enjoyable day of fishing. He is
very good and we had fun on his boat. By the way, I caught the largest
fish that day and won the Prize. I was unable to fish the Sunday
due to other prearrangement, but I understand the boat I was in the 1st
day won the largest fish award again. The overall hospitality of
all your crew was outstanding and I would recommend your Guide Service
to anyone that would like the excitement. When do you think the photos
will be available on this website. We fished the morning of May 12.
There were sixteen of us. I know you sponsor so many tours therefore;
I feel I need to mention the time and date.
Again
Thanks
George
J Butler |
| Monday,
May 14, 2001
Just
a short note to say thanks. From all indications, everyone had a good time.
Your guides are both professional and knowledgeable. Rick Dies, Jimmie
Ford and I are already talking about booking again in October. Looking
forward to doing business with you again and again. I'll definitely
recommend your service to my friends.
Thanks
again,
Steve
Sells |
Tinker,
April 12, 2001 @ 1 PM,
Fishing
was great. We caught many fish, but smaller in size (not your problem).
My guide Joe was great and we tipped him very well. I read the fishing
reports all the time. Your boat & equipment are very good.
Keep
up the good work.
Todd
Beckman,
PhaseCom,
Inc. |
| Tuesday,
April 10, 2001
Mr.
Tinker, I wanted to let you know that my brother-in-law and I were extremely
pleased with our fishing trip that we took with your guide service on Monday,
April 8th.
Neither
of us had previously caught a striped bass and it was an experience not
soon to be forgotten (my brother-in-law, from Florida, is a very experienced
largemouth bass fisherman). By 8:30 in the morning we had caught close
to our limit, and by 10:00, we had also landed a 5.5 lb. fish.
You
can be sure that I will wholeheartedly recommend your guide service to
any of my friends wishing to catch stripers on Lake Texoma and I am likely
to schedule another trip with you in the future.
Again,
thank you for a most enjoyable fishing experience,
Harry |
| I'm
not sure on the exact date of our trip. I think it was sometime in Jan.
or Feb. I had nothing but good comments about the trip, fishing,
and guide. We really enjoyed our guide. He was a great guide and
host. We hadn't left the area when we were planning on going on another
with you.
Sammy
Motsenbocker |
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