RSA strategy – Trade view
[Comment – We reproduce below, an article which appeared in the June 2008 issue of the angling trade magazine ‘Tackle & Guns’ (a David Hall Publication). The article covers the tackle industry’s only trade body, ‘The Angling Trades Association’, suggestions for the future of sea fishing in the UK, in connection with the Government’s proposal […]
Bass stocks are collapsing
Recent scientific evidence shows that UK bass stocks are collapsing. BASS demands urgent government action John Leballeur, Chairman of the BASS Restoration Project team has stated that in over 20 years of bass sampling, he has never seen a period when the numbers of young bass have been so low, for so long. Shocked by […]
BASS measuring tape
Length to weight conversion measure for European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) The BASS tape measure has been designed to enable bass anglers to have a packable and durable piece of equipment which dispenses with the need to carry a set of weighing scales. On one edge are the measuring increments (in centimetres) and on the […]
BASS AGM 2008
[photo – Clive Hodges (left) receiving the trophy, for the heaviest bass (12lbs) caught on natural bait in 2008, from angling author, Chris Yates. The fish was released. – photo courtesy Alan Parfitt] On Sunday 30 March 2008, BASS members from all points North, South, East and West, including one member from the ‘Emerald isle’, […]
No licence
BASS welcomes ‘no licence’ decision Commenting upon yesterday’s statement by Jonathan Shaw MP, the Fisheries Minister, that proposals to introduce a sea angling licence are to be dropped, BASS spokesman John Leballeur said “At last this administration is beginning to show some sense, when talking about recreational sea angling”. At the recent ‘Angling Summit’ held […]