BASS Restoration Project
By November 1999, the Project had been running for 18 months, and things were happening at such a pace that we felt the need to communicate with our members and contributors by a newsletter. Peter Macconnell took on the role of producing Newsletter No: 1 (Winter 1999), from which these pieces are taken. What’s In […]
Anglers object to MAFF
In response to the recent MAFF consultation – Proposed conservation measures for the offshore spring bass fishery (15 October 1999), anglers produced a number of robust arguments, including: The data presented in MAFF Pilot Study Report M0802 give unequivocal evidence that the fishery is not sustainable. This fishery has already become a recruitment fishery, relying […]
Book Review
A Guide To Shore Angling On The Dingle Peninsula by Bob Moss – Reviewed by Neil Fluke In his Guide to Shore Angling on the Dingle Peninsula Bob Moss has created a remedy for Jeff Tucker’s Irish bass lament (BASS 87 Autumn ’98); a classic example of how not to embark on an angling expedition. […]
Inshore boat angling by Steve Pitts
A few years back we were having a very lean time of it in Dorset. Since the late 80s our bass catches were tailing off to such an extent that it was a major achievement to catch a fish of any size. We had tried every thing that we could think of to improve our […]
The North American experience
20 years ago, the plight of the striped bass (Morone saxatilis), the North American equivalent of the European Sea Bass, was thought to be beyond recovery. Striped bass resemble the European sea bass in many ways, not least in the way that they generate intense and passionate affection among anglers. The two major differences are […]