OLD fishing technique?

[inrll]

I have vague memories of some old techniques for bass and I'm hoping one of you can help fill in the blanks. They both involved a very long rod, maybe in the 10' to 12' range.

 

If I remember correctly one was sort of the precursor to flipping and pitching where you basically dropped the lure straight down into the cover with the longer rod.

 

The other involved moving parallel to the bank and basically just holding the lure (no idea what the lure was) at the surface and shaking it right at the edge of the grass or whatever cover was near the bank.

 

Do either of these sound familiar? Anyone have the names of these techniques or know any details? I would love to research this more but have no idea what to search for and Google hasn't turned anything up using the small amount if info I do have.

[Eric J]

Sounds like a form of pole fishing. Lots of people use the technique for parish.

 

Ten foot pole with line attached that you are essentially drop shotting.

[Team9nine]

Jigger Pole

 

 

 

[Oregon Native]

Wasn't it call doodling....and I believe bait was used a lot.

[Scott F]

1 hour ago, inrll said:

I have vague memories of some old techniques for bass and I'm hoping one of you can help fill in the blanks. They both involved a very long rod, maybe in the 10' to 12' range.

 

If I remember correctly one was sort of the precursor to flipping and pitching where you basically dropped the lure straight down into the cover with the longer rod.....

Years ago when I used to crappie fish in the spring, this is how we’d do it. I’d put a spinning reel on my fly rod. I’d only use a few feet of line and wouldn’t cast out, just drop the crappie jig along side some brush, stake bed or tree. I’m sure it would have been used for bass too. I don’t remember the term used. Might have been noodling or something. Now, noodling is the term they use for pulling catfish out of the water by hand.  

[Team9nine]

Dippin' or Doodle Sockin' were also common names given to long pole fishing in various parts of the country, and in some areas applied to both bass and crappie.

[J Francho]

11 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

Doodle Sockin'

This is a family site!

[MassYak85]

I believe Matt Allen did a video a long time ago about the first one, not sure what the video was titled but he was basically flipping with a huge pole. 

[Deleted account]

16 minutes ago, J Francho said:

This is a family site!

Sorry, wiping down the trombone as we speak....

[Glenn]

It was called Tule dippin’ . The rod was called a Jigger Pole, or sometimes a Dippin' Pole.  I used to do it as a kid. 

 

It's basically taking a long pole and dropping the lure into holes in cover.  This was before flipping/pitching was created, so this was a precursor to that.

 

Dee Thomas made it famous by winning tournaments on it before Jigger Poles were prohibited in tournaments.  That's when flipping/pitching was invented - to do what Tule Dippin' did, only with a shorter pole.

 

Hope that helps!

 

3 hours ago, Oregon Native said:

Wasn't it call doodling....and I believe bait was used a lot.

No, Doodlin is a finesse tactic: https://www.bassresource.com/fish/doodlin.html

[J Francho]

1 minute ago, Glenn said:

No, Doodlin is a finesse tactic: https://www.bassresource.com/fish/doodlin.html

Seems like flick-shaking might be an off shoot.

[Team9nine]

25 minutes ago, J Francho said:

This is a family site!

Lol - Glenn may need to update the sites filters to throw some astericks my way next time

[J Francho]

But seriously, this is some cool information.

[inrll]

You guys are awesome! I knew someone in here would remember this stuff.

 

Team9nine, that 2nd video is exactly what I was thinking of with the surface activity. It's so unorthodox. I can really see some conditions and certain times of year on certain lakes where this would be a killer. 

[Catt]

Tule Dipping & Jigger Pole Fishing are not the same!

 

Tule Dipping like what Dee Thomas did was much like today's flipping. The pole had a length of line close to 3/4 the length of the pole.The long pole was not only for reaching farther back in cover but it also was used to go up & over cover.

 

Jigger Pole Fishing was was a short length of line like the second video.

 

The length of the rod Dee Thomas used in early B.A.S.S. tournaments was not the issue, the issue was the rod had no reel attached.

[Oregon Native]

20 hours ago, Glenn said:

It was called Tule dippin’ . The rod was called a Jigger Pole, or sometimes a Dippin' Pole.  I used to do it as a kid. 

 

It's basically taking a long pole and dropping the lure into holes in cover.  This was before flipping/pitching was created, so this was a precursor to that.

 

Dee Thomas made it famous by winning tournaments on it before Jigger Poles were prohibited in tournaments.  That's when flipping/pitching was invented - to do what Tule Dippin' did, only with a shorter pole.

 

Hope that helps!

 

No, Doodlin is a finesse tactic: https://www.bassresource.com/fish/doodlin.html

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[Steve1357]

Y'all figured it out.

 

What I remember, in the early 80s, we were buying long spinning rods for jigging or whatever you wanted to drop straight into cover. I still have mine, a surf rod that the rod blank would slide back into the handle to make it shorter for travel. I used it for pig and jigs, the old Uncle Josh pork rind type...

 

Of course a casting reel on top of a spinning rod caught some attention.

 

You'd quietly float into the brush or lily pads and reach in as far as you could and drop the jig straight down....and hold on.

[jiggerpole]

Well I call it Jigger Pole fishing

[Catt]

Colloquialism ?

 

Noodling is fishing for catfish using one's bare hands!

 

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