Bass Anglers’ Sportfishing Society

Fighting for Bass and Bass Anglers’ since 1973

BASS Photography Competition – July 2020

BASS Photography Competition – July 2020 The BASS photography competition runs every every month from June until December 2020 with great prizes generously donated by ‘Lure Fishing For Bass’. There is also an overall winner at the end of the year!   This month’s first prize is a Tailwalk SPEAKY reel   This month’s runners […]

Inflatable Bass Angling

Inflatable Bass Angling by Tony Hooper Do you recall the first boat fishing trip you had? Well I have always enjoyed fishing from small boats, there is something about being able to fish in deeper water and being able to move from one mark to another so easily. I had seen one or two anglers […]

My First Ten Pound Bass

CHAPTER 5 – GOOD DAYS, BAD DAYS My First Ten Pound Bass Some years ago I had a friend, Roger, who was a car salesman for a main dealer in Plymouth. He was very good at his job and sold a record number of new cars. His boss, the owner of the business, gave Roger […]

Suffolk Bassing – Ambition Achieved

CHAPTER 5 – GOOD DAYS, BAD DAYS Suffolk Bassing – Ambition Achieved It was a dull and drizzly day. I had gone down to my boat to do a couple of jobs on it. I thought that if the work was straight forward I might have time for a bit of fishing. There was a […]

When Bass Don’t React

When Bass Don’t React by Donovan Kelley Many readers will have had the unhappy experience of catching a nice bass which gives only token resistance to the rod; more like a cod, say, or a ray, than a tough, hard-fighting predator capable of tremendous bursts of speed. Why do they do it? Is it possible to […]