Segraves and the Spider Jig
Segraves and the Spider Jig looks back at Segraves career and his unorthodox bait for when times get tough in his native land of Florida
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Tag: Bobby Garland
Bobby Garland’s Fat Gitzit
I first heard of the Gitzit shortly after the Fall 1980 Western Bass tournament at Lake Havasu. We didn’t have the internet back then but news traveled fast via phone.
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Larry Snyder’s Twin T’s
And although Gary Yamamoto has built a bait empire over the course of the last 35 years, one cannot talk about the origins of the company without mentioning Larry Snyder’s Twin T’s.
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The U.S. Open 1981: An Event that Changed Bass Fishing – Part Two
“Being in the lead, I did look over my shoulder a lot to see who the challengers were behind me. But you can’t dwell on that. No matter what happens or who was behind me, I knew I still had to catch a good limit each day. I knew I couldn’t be worrying about who was behind me.”
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Bobby Garland the First Creature
But this article isn’t about the tube or any of Garland’s previously mentioned bait inventions. This article is about a lure genre totally different – the Creature bait.
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The Writers – Bill Rice
“Bill Dance is probably the best angler I ever fished with,” he said. “Bill would come out every year for seminars and when he did, we’d go fish all the southern Cal lakes.
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Western Champions 1976
Then there’s Dee Thomas and his protégé Dave Gliebe, both just after taking the southern B.A.S.S. events by storm with the new Flippin’ technique. Another western legend in this mix is Mike Folkestad, who also put a hurtin’ on some of the events in the east and still takes a good sum of cash from western anglers today.
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