I still use a pistol grip for topwaters. I am so old.

Larry had one of the absolute best fishing shows.
Anybody remember Freddie Grant?

Why do yall think a pistol grip will wear you out more than a long handle? Appears to me I make the same wrist movements with either one.

Man I am getting old. I remember that megabucks well. I fished my first team T in 1984 ish out of my Bass Tracker. It was at LBJ and it was the old "Lone Star Bass". Suddenly I feel old!!!LMBO

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Ya'll been at it a while; I started bass fishing in the late 50's fished my first T when Ford sponsored a trail in early seventies.

I remember Freddie Grant my dad and a friend followed him one day when he shooting a show on Cedar Creek .

Killer hats. We thought they were cool back in the day. I still have some old pistol grips I use, mostly Speed Sticks. Actually had a new one made this last fall with a handle I got from one of Lew Childre's sons back home. American Eagle Rods built it with 6'0" MH blank. Excellent close range spinnerbait rod. The old pistol grips were the only ones with the right offset for roll casts, etc. For the right situations nothing is better.

My great-grandmother got me into fishing. As long as I could remember she always lived on a lake or had a summer home on the lake. I think I was making the phone call to spend the weekend at the lake. Probably wasn't old enough to dial. I do remember that my great-grandfather was almost blind and I would set on the front of the boat and signal with right arm or left arm for him to be able to get us around the lake.

The most vivid memory I have spending time with her was trying to drink POWDERED MILK. Thats some nasty stuff 50 years ago. Never tried it since.

It was tough up here on the high plains to even get to a decent lake. Especially in 1959, when at the age of five, Dad and I went to JB Thomas about 90 miles away. I remember going out that day in my uncle's 12' aluminum Lone Star with a 35 Johnson.

We caught nothing that day so we came in early. Afew minutes later I snagged a 5lber fishin off the back of the boat which was pulled up on the bank. I threw my Zebco down and went screaming up to the cabin. Dad thought I was earhooked or something. The bass was still on the end of my rod when we went back down to the bank.

I still have the old Pico Perch that I used that day - 49 years ago.

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Cabelas still sells pistol grips in the Cabelas brand rods. I bought one last year when the old Shakespeare finally went south. Nothing better for working a Spook than a pistol grip, it is much easier on the old wrist.

Ralphy was that James Lake?

No it was Dacus Lake Bomber.

20 years ago i was still 2 years from being born, i remember sitting in the front yard when i was about 4 casting at the sprinkler with a little blue rod things have changed...i hope im a little more accurate now.

Cool, sorry bout the hijack but Im an ole Memphis boy too.

Wow, I was 2 years old...

Dang Nixon looks like a young guy...lol

Caught my first bass around 1952. Didn't get into serious bass fishing until around 1972. Did the pistol grip rod making thing with the old Fenwick (?) metal handles and then the Lew's handles with Fenwick blanks. From then and up through the mid 80's I made ugly spinnerbaits on which I caught "plenty" of fish. My favorites were Don Butler's SOB and homemade 5/8 oz single #4 colorado which I buzzed and dropped around everything in sight. Been not necessarily talented but pretty obsessed all these years.

twenty years ago the only fishing I did was go to a fish market, but no fish and somehow on ocasion I smell like fish

I was 4!!!

Oh yeah 20yrs ago I remember...I was poopin my diaper!