HydroWave™ is a new fishing electronics company, with professional anglers Kevin VanDam and Jeff Kriet among its business partners. Both men will have a HydroWave on their boats and in use at this week's Bassmaster Classic.
The easy to install and user-friendly HydroWave unit incorporates the latest in patented sound-emitting technology that effectively imitates the audible underwater sounds of baitfish and fish-feeding activities, of which research has proven to stimulate feeding impulses in game fish. The unit emits sound waves that predatory fish feel, hear and sense as natural baitfish activities, to trigger a feeding response in gamefish.
HydroWave is the brainchild of successful Dallas businessman and competitive bass angler Gene Eisenmann. He introduced the concept to Robert Palmer, an engineer with extensive background in electronic product engineering and development, and owner of RHP Industries located in Aubrey, Texas. Together they designed and built the HydroWave.
Eisenmann contacted Kriet, a longtime fishing friend with electronics savvy, and VanDam, who has a known history of how fish react to sound, to team in the venture.
"I've always paid attention as to how fish seem to feed and respond to each other while in competition for food," VanDam said. "Like most bass fishermen who spend a lot of time on the water, I've witnessed situations where a school could be fired up by getting just one fish to bite. Igniting those kinds of flurries during a tournament day can be a huge advantage. HydroWave is about providing that stimulus for that first response to get things going."
"This thing is going to be very cool," Kriet said. "We've all been fishing out on a ledge and you make cast after cast after cast. Then all the sudden a fish bites. Then what happens? It's every cast and it's on. The school triggered. That's what this is. It's another trigger that can turn a school into a feeding school. VanDam has always been a big believer about this. He's even more eat up with it than I am."
The HydroWave is expected to be available on the market by late May, retailing for around $389.99 each. It will be sold through fishing dealers, sporting goods chains, boating and marine stores, and the HydroWave web site. Pre-orders are being accepted in advance of the product's availability.
For more information, visit HydroWave.com.
