![]() ![]() The manufacturers have really done a lot of research into ways to lighten the rod and increase its sensitivity, which transmits directly into the rod's handle," he notes. "American Rodsmiths, for instance, now actually has graphite strips imbedded into the handle to increase the feel. "We've certainly come a long, long way since then," he points out. Looking back, Denny can't help but appreciate the nostalgia of yesteryear, but that's not to say that he would trade places with where technology has taken the sport. ![]() "We quickly went from composite grips to the cork that you see nowadays, and you went from a screw-in rod blank to a one-piece blank that went all the way through the handle." "That's when things really started to happen," Brauer explains. Shortly thereafter, anglers and manufacturers alike began to recognize the benefits of having a solid rod/handle marriage. ![]() People started to see the benefit of longer rods and the leverage they provided, which really made the pistol grip obsolete because you had to have your hands on the grip in order to be effective."īefore the advent of the straight handle, however, an angler used to be able to unscrew the rod from the grip, thus making them interchangeable. "Oddly, you still weren't seeing many that were made with a straight grip - they still had the pistol grip. "When flipping came into play in the mid-'70s, you started seeing longer rods," Brauer explains. In fact, it was the mid-1970s when a California hot shot named Dee Thomas won a BASS event at Bull Shoals, Ark., on an unheard of technique called flipping. The "back then" that Denny refers to isn't really that long ago. That is, most rods were only 5 or 5 1/2 feet long. "They were really comfortable to fish, in my opinion, but you really have to consider the length of the rods back then beyond the grip." "When I first started fishing, about the only things readily available were pistol-grip rods," he allows. Or when pistol-grip reel seats and interchangeable handles were once considered "high tech."īut to Elite Series veteran Denny Brauer, those days are still fresh in his mind. If you're new to bass fishing, it might be hard to imagine a time when 7-foot rods with straight, cork-wrapped handles were unheard of. ![]()
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