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Footloose With A Fly Rod

CHAPTER 6 – LESSONS LEARNT Footloose With A Fly Rod Earlier in this book is an article by Mike Oliver on flycasting tackle, with an account of how Mike and I developed a fly rod for saltwater bassing. The following is the first trial of the new rod. In the summer of 1995 Mike and […]

Bassing Via The Three ‘R’s

CHAPTER 6 – LESSONS LEARNT Bassing Via The Three ‘R’s Bassing via the three R’s? What on earth are you talking about Jon, Reading, Riting and Rithmatic? Not quite. The three ‘R’s for me are Routine, Research and Results. Let me start the journey through the three ‘R’s by taking you back to when I […]

Bassing In West Hampshire – Time And Tide

CHAPTER 6 – LESSONS LEARNT Bassing In West Hampshire – Time And Tide Crunching along the shingle homeward bound for breakfast, after casting a plug at first light, or clambering up a cliff at some Godforsaken hour, most often fishless, does not give me a lot of confidence or qualify me for an article on […]

Alice’s Pipe

CHAPTER 6 – LESSONS LEARNT Alice’s Pipe For some weeks I kept two small bass in a 55 gallon tank along with a few beadlet anemones, a single large snakelocks anemone, two small shore crabs, some limpets and winkles, and a selection of palamanoid prawns and crangoid shrimps. Both fish were caught on rod and […]

Seeing Is Believing

CHAPTER 6 – LESSONS LEARNT Seeing Is Believing Since moving to Plymouth most of my bass fishing has been on a short section of coast in South Devon. Over four years I have maintained a log of what I have caught, as well as comments from other anglers, and I’m starting to see some clear […]