UKBASS on SKY TV
On Friday 28 th June 2013 Nigel Horsman , Andy Ford from SKY TV’s tightlines and I all fished together on Zen2 . The plan was to produce a nice little fishing film with an emphasis on highlighting the worrying issues concerning the current management of the species . I really hope the film helps […]
THE BASS CRYSTAL BALL
I’m pretty sure that most anglers look forward to their fishing sessions with eager anticipation and part of that feeling is about NOT knowing what you’ll catch, or indeed IF you’ll catch. Anticipating what you might catch Perhaps if we were able to predict what we were going to catch, how many fish and how big they […]
NEWSFLASH: Better Protection of EU Bass Stocks Might Just be Imminent.
After years of decline in our breeding bass populations, it finally seems the message we have been taking to those that determine fisheries policy might at last be getting through and emergency measures to limit bass landings might be imposed. In fact the momentum is strong enough throughout Europe that the efforts of the Angling […]
Let our bass breed
Right now, Richard Benyon MP (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Natural Environment, Water and Rural Affairs) should have a report on his desk from the team at Defra (Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs) that have been reviewing bass management and that report, hopefully, will persuade him that, at the very least, an […]
Stop Eating the Babies
We should never eat a fish that has never had the chance to breed. With widespread and still growing public concern about over-fishing, and the terrible waste from fishery discards, most people would be horrified to realise that some fishermen are targeting the wild bass stocks before they have ever had a chance to spawn. […]