"I probably should have thrown that in the last tournament," Tommy Biffle said with a smile as he landed his fourth bass in four casts after picking up a rod rigged with a Gene Larew Biffle Bug on a football head. He had rigged the bait that way at Smith Mountain Lake, where the BASS Elite Series had been the previous week, but had never thrown it. He actually did catch all of his weighed bass in that event on a Biffle Bug - just not on a football head. Instead he had been removing to legs to lessen vibration and Texas rigging the bait to sight fish for bass.
Biffle uses the Biffle Bug, a flat ribbed creature-type bait that he designed, for everything from a trailer on fast-moving baits to his go-to lure for flippin' and pitchin'.
He showed me its virtue yesterday, using it to put Fort Gibson Lake largemouths in the boat with a variety of techniques. He also showed himself the virtue of putting a Biffle Bug on a football head and dragging across a rocky flat. I even managed to wrangle in a few fishing it that way!
White bass are on the agenda today. Them maybe a few more largemouths.
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