Bassmasters Elite Comes To Bull Shoals

[Larry Richards]

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

[Quillback]

Cool, always interesting to see what techniques these guys use on a local lake.

[roy_eros]

Be really interesting to see what kind of rains we get this year and what the water level will be like..

[gotmuddy]

that will be awesome, I will have to be there for that. Hopefully the weighin wont be extremely far from me.

[Quillback]

Yeah good question, wonder where they do the weigh-in?

[BrianS]

I would like to see how they will fare on a tuff lake for once. This will be quite a change from what they are used to doing.