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SPECIAL EVENT:

Youth Fishing Derby: Saturday, May 3, 2008!
MacArthur Park, 2230 W. 6th St., Los Angeles, CA 90057

A free event for children age 15 or younger, with equipment (rods, reels, tackle and bait) provided for those who don't have their own, as well ass assistance for those who want it, and lunch. The SEA (Science, Education, and Adventure) Lab from Redondo Beach will have a mobile aquarium with marine-oriented displays. Anyone age 16 or older is required to have a valid California State Fishing License and pole rentals require a valid driver license.

READ MORE by visiting Dans Kids online.

From Captian Allan Starr of Galapagos Sportfishing, "Fishing in Jurassic Park"  
Hey Randy, After extensive testing on approximately 150 big Stripped Marlin up to 300lbs, only one word describes your Thumb Dinger, AMAZING.

The only problem we had is, we destroyed all the ones we had, PLEASE send more!! By using the Thumb Dinger to thumb-the-spool on HOT Stripped Marlin, is the "cats-ass". For Hook Setting, I've seen Nothing Better, as the Thumb Dinger works on "J" hooks just as well as on circles. You all have hit a Home Run wth this product, I highly recommend it to ANY offshore angler.

The basic thing is to have anglers who can fish,  it is by no meens a cure-all but makes circle hook fishing for Stripped Marlin so much more efficient and eliminates fumbling with the drag lever as your thumb is much more sensitive to pressure than a drag-lever and therein lies the key to the Thumb Dinger, from strike, to dropback, then being able to increase pressure on the spool gradually, nothing come close to your Thumb Dingers for setting circle hooks on conventional tackle.

I'll foward some pics of all the action as soon as I can. Best of luck and again, you have a Great Product!

SPECIAL EVENT:

Daniel Hernandez Youth Foundation 3rd Annual Kick-Off Party & Fish Fry, Saturday, April 05, 2008 : Seal Beach Yacht Club
Highlight for the night will be a seminar by longtime skipper John Grabowski talking about local and long range tuna fishing.

The Daniel Hernandez Youth Foundation was established in 2001 to bring the joy and educational aspects of fishing to disadvantaged and inner city youth who might otherwise never have such experiences. We are proud that to date, we have successfully introduced the sport of fishing to tens of thousands of children and their families. READ MORE by downloading the following, and visit Dans Kids online.

Event Flyer (PDF) • Sponsor Rates (PDF)

December 2007-Thumb Dinger is filming a TV commercial for Sportfishing with Dan Hernandez. It will be a 30 sec spot and yes, I (Jeff Stinchcomb) will be the one in front of the camera. We hope you will watch the show and try the newest UNLCC product, proudly Made In The USA. We encourage you to visit Dan's website . He has rods and reels, Lures and hooks as well as many of his famous fish batters ,spices, rubs and sauces which are all very tasty.

November 2007-Thumb Dinger Sponsors another event. Sportfishing with Dan Hernandez East Cape. Twenty-six couples went to the fabulous Rancho Leonaro resort in beautiful Cabo San Lucas. We fished and filmed two episodes of the TV show Sportfishing with Dan Hernandez and had a great time doing so! Look for that show also scheduled to air in 2008.

October 2007-Thumb Dinger signed up to be a major sponsor of the new hit TV fishing show The Saltwater Experience with Capt Tom Rowland and Capt Rich Tudor . The first episodes will air in Jan 2008. One of the first episodes includes Capt Rich Tudor catching a Swordfish of 150 LB class in the daytime using the Thumb Dinger. Don’t miss this great show on ESPN 2 and Versus.

Sept 2007-Thumb Dinger was a sponsor of the Chuck Byron Memorial Fishing Tournament in San Diego, CA, handing out over 114 samples to all the participants’ as well as our very popular Big Kahuna Portable Shower . The tournament in its 3rd year was a huge success with over 100 people participating.

Sept 2007-Thumb Dinger reaches out to the Pacific rim: Proanglers Center in maylasia and Fishn' Bitz in australia are now carring our product!!

August 1st 2007-Our Crew went to the Ocean City Maryland White Marlin Tournament and distributed samples among the participants and watched them rave over this product. This tournament is the Worlds largest Billfish Tournament on the planet. Thumb Dinger plans to be a sponsor of that event for the 2008 season. Hope to see you there.

April 2007-Thumb Dinger 2007 Year starts in April at the Fred Hall show both in Long Beach and Del Mar California. We launched this new product at the Fred Hall show and it was an instant hit . We then attended the I-cast show in Las Vegas and Dave Ferrell editor of Marlin Magazine did a showing of our new product on Sun Sports as seen on our homepage.