I Get By With a Little Help From My Friends
I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends by Clive Hodges Many successful bass anglers are secretive about the marks that they fish. This might suggest that they share little information about how they go about catching their quarry but that is not always the case. When I was younger I didn’t understand […]
Moonlight Tagging
CHAPTER 5 – GOOD DAYS, BAD DAYS Moonlight Tagging What do three bass fanatics do on a full Moon? No, we don’t turn into werewolves and howl at the moon; we walk the two miles out to sea on a low spring tide and fish with plugs in amongst the gullys of southeast Jersey. So […]
September
CHAPTER 5 – GOOD DAYS, BAD DAYS September She rests gently in my hands, gills flaring slightly as I hold her head into the tide, recovering from the indignity of being measured, weighed and photographed in the arms of a grinning land creature. Her fins stroking the water and her tail waving slowly, she is […]
It’s All Been A Bit Strange
It’s All Been A Bit Strange by Jon Williams Lockdown has had a significant impact on mine and other anglers lives, personally I have missed the Bass Anglers Sportfishing Society’s (BASS) annual general meeting in Gloucester and will miss the BASS Cornwall Fish-in at Looe planned for 26th to 28th June 2020, both cancelled due […]
Of Fishing Diaries
Of Fishing Diaries by Donovan Kelley “However do you remember all this?” asked my wife Betty. “From my diaries, of course”. “But all that detail of species, weights, numbers; even, of how they reacted to the hook?”. “It’s all there. Photos too. Have a look”. She had been reading my typescript of wartime fishing in India. […]