r****p 发帖数: 1949 | 1 这是最早关于Flippin钓法的报道,发明人Dee Thomas称这种新钓法为‘Controlled
Structure Fishing’。 | r****p 发帖数: 1949 | 2 The Birth of the Flippin’ Stik – Part One
This is part one of a two-part series on the advent of the Flippin’ Stik. I
had the pleasure of discussing the subject with Dee Thomas, the father of
flipping, and Dave Myers, the brains behind the design of the blank. In this
installment, Thomas talks about his first tournaments, how he felt he
couldn’t compete and the eventual protests from fellow competitors
surrounding the long rod.
Dee Thomas’ early tournament endeavors were met with mixed results and
mixed reviews. Most tournament bass anglers at the time considered his use
of 12-foot rods as ‘unsportsmanlike’ and ‘something only a meat hunter
would use.’ The 12-foot rod wasn’t something ‘a serious tournament angler
would even consider.’
Thomas started out as what he refers to as a “tule dipper.”
“I started tule dipping in California in the 50s,” he said. “In that
technique, you have a 12- to 18-foot rod. There’s no reel so you either
attach a length of line to the tip or you run a length of line down through
the rod tip and affix it at the butt-end of the rod. Either way, you have a
length of line, about as long as the rod, and that’s what you use to
present your lure.”
Thomas had such success with the technique over the years that he knew it
could be deadly on the newly-forming tournament circuits of the early 70s.
Problem was, he needed to find a way to legally fish the events.
He contacted Wayne Cummings, then tournament director for the Western Bass
Fishing Association (WBFA). Thomas asked Cummings what was required
equipment-wise to fish the event and was told, “All you need is to have a
reel on your rod to be legal.”
Word soon got out that Thomas was to be fishing the WBFA event at Lake Don
Pedro, his first bass tournament.
Thomas and his sponsor/partner Frank Hauck arrived at Don Pedro and Thomas
made his way over to Cummings’ house boat for a chat. As he and Cummings
talked, in walked another tournament angler, Bob Pinto, complaining about
Thomas being allowed to fish.
Here’s how the dialog went as told by Thomas:
‘They’re no good, tule dippin’ meat hunters,’ Pinto said. ‘The way they
fish isn’t sportsmanlike at all.’
‘Have you ever met Dee Thomas,’ Cummings asked of Pinto.
‘No I haven’t but I’d say the same thing to his face if I ever come
across the man,’ Pinto replied.
‘Well, let me introduce you to Dee Thomas,’ Cummings said to Pinto.
“There was tension in the air,” Thomas said. “Pinto kind of toned it down
a little but he held his ground. Anyway, because I had a reel on my Hawger,
they let us fish.
“It was a two-day tournament and Frank and I hadn’t even prefished. We
ended up weighing a limit (10 fish) the first day. I can’t remember what
place we were in but we were high in the standings. The second day we only
had two or three fish and didn’t bother weighing in. I figured we’d need a
limit to do well but as it stood, we would’ve done really well had we
weighed those fish.”
They ended up around 12-place but that’s not the end of the story.
“As weigh-in concluded, Frank and I were over at my truck tearing down my
12-foot Valco [aluminum boat] so we could put it on my truck for the ride
home,” Thomas recalled. “Now, remember, we hadn’t weighed any fish and
the other anglers started coming over to us to say things like, ‘you can
come fish against us with your long rods anytime.’
“They were poking fun at us and that really pissed me off.
“On the way home I was so mad I was talking to myself,” he said. “Frank
had told me he wanted to sponsor me if we’d fish together and our first
event was a failure. I turned to Frank and asked him if we could fish the
next one and he said yes.”
The next event was at Lake San Antonio, a central California lake just
outside of Paso Robles. Thomas had never been to the lake before and because
of what happened in his first event at Don Pedro, decided to prefish this
event.
“I didn’t want a repeat of Don Pedro so I went to the lake two times
before the tournament – one time a week before and one time the day before
the tournament. Frank turned us on to the fish during official practice in
Bee Rock.
“Then the first day came and we were only able to scrounge up 6 fish, about
half a limit,” he said. “I think we weighed about 18 pounds. We were in
second or third place. The leaders had something like 22 or 23 pounds – I
just knew I wasn’t cut out for this tournament fishing.
“I was so upset I stayed up all night trying to figure something else out.
Then the alarm went off and Frank could see I was upset. ‘You haven’t
slept,’ he said. I said, ‘Frank, I don’t know what to do other than what
we’ve been doing. Frank said, ‘then that’s what we’ll do.’
“We went out, caught the same amount of fish as the previous day and ended
up winning the tournament by 10 pounds.
“It was after that event the anglers started hounding Cummings about us
fishing with the long rod,” he said.
“Wayne called and told me about the problems he was having and asked how
short the rod could be and still make it so I could fish effectively. I was
standing in my garage and pulled a 7-and-a-half-foot Fenwick striper rod off
the wall and told him I could live with that. By then, I’d already seen
the writing on the wall and had been practicing the underhand flip with
these rods. What the other anglers hadn’t realized, though, is by
restricting the rod length, they actually made me a more effective angler.” | m********n 发帖数: 2995 | 3 Great article! Thanks for sharing! | c*******s 发帖数: 5839 | 4 看了半天
不知道好在哪
杆子更长?
没轴?
这个panfish更有实战意义吧
再长点才好
我脚的钓bass
现在的flipping和patching技术更实用阿
我不懂啊
轻点拍 | r****p 发帖数: 1949 | 5 转文里讲的是1974年的事,说古论今,呵呵
【在 c*******s 的大作中提到】 : 看了半天 : 不知道好在哪 : 杆子更长? : 没轴? : 这个panfish更有实战意义吧 : 再长点才好 : 我脚的钓bass : 现在的flipping和patching技术更实用阿 : 我不懂啊 : 轻点拍
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