BassMasters Elite Comes to Bull Shoals Next Year   
 
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Elite #3 
Dates: April 19-22 
Venue: Bull Shoals Lake 
Host: Arkansas 
Size 45,000 surface acres 
Impounded: 1951 
Notes: B.A.S.S. has held six previous events on Bull Shoals, but none (other than a 2006 WBT tournament) since 1991. Despite the small number, Bull Shoals has a big place in B.A.S.S. history. Dee Thomas, the inventor of flippin’, introduced the world to his technique by winning the 1975 Arkansas Invitational here. With the victory — and a subsequent series of features in Bassmaster Magazine — flippin’ became the hottest technique on the Tournament Trail. It still is, really, and Bull Shoals is where the story broke