European Bass Stocks Under Threat
Decline Alarms Anglers UK anglers will soon start to see a disastrous decline in both the number and size of bass available in the important and valuable Recreational Fishery. That is the conclusion from studies that show an alarming reduction in the number of juvenile fish coming into Southern nursery areas indicating a collapse in […]
Donovan Kelley 1918 – 2008
By Malcolm Brindle When I was a boy in the 1950’s I read the Fishing Gazette in the local library. An article written by Donovan Kelley about bass fishing caught my eye. It ignited a pilot light that has never diminished. Many years later I noticed in the BASS magazine that he required scale samples […]
Anglers Attack Brussels
‘Junk this ridiculous proposal’ says BASS After years of urging the EU to adopt sensible conservation measures and being ignored, UK anglers are turning on Brussels in anger at ridiculous proposals to bureaucratise their sport and to criminalise anglers who fail to tell them what they have caught. John Leballeur, the chairman of the Bass […]
Bass Ice Tragedy
‘We could lose and entire year group’ says BASS. “A cruel trick of nature threatens the first positive signs of a recovery in the recruitment of bass stocks” says John Leballeur, Chairman of the Bass Anglers Sportfishing Society’s Bass Restoration team. “Following three disastrous years when bass recruitment seemed to be failing, 2008 saw the […]
BASS Tells Minister to Beef Up for 2012
Don’t Lose this Chance says BASS. BASS are urging the Fisheries Minister, Jonathan Shaw, to adopt a strong position ahead of the review of the Common Fisheries Policy by 2012. BASS are demanding that UK national and regional legislation created for the protection of our close-inshore fisheries apply to all vessels fishing within the UK’s […]