Pike Tricks For Bass
Pike Tricks For Bass by Richard Brandon I’m sure you’ll recall advice from ancient angling books, or mates, along the lines of “your old pike rod will do” or “use a stout spinning rod, one you’d use for pike”. Sometimes they were right, and you could trundle down to the coast or estuary and make do […]
Too Much To Soon?
Too Much To Soon? by Donovan Kelley “The largest bass of the year, 17lb 1oz from the Blackwater estuary, was Peter Prentice’s first bass, caught on his first cast from Richard Parkinson’s “Amethyst” out of West Mersea. Another notable first was Colin Fellowes’ l6-pounder, caught from the shore at Hythe on his first attempt at […]
Rigging Stick Baits – An Introduction
On first acquaintance, lure fishing for bass, can appear daunting to the novice bass angler and perhaps even more so when they start to look at fishing with soft plastics. Off the shelf pre-rigged lures may seem harmless enough, and those with previous lure angling experience may already be familiar with them. However, when starting […]
The Shy Followers
CHAPTER 3 – TECHNIQUES – LURE FISHING The Shy Followers Ever had a bass follow your popper and not take it? What did you do next – cast straight back out to where you last saw the fish perhaps? Maybe change your popper for another model, slightly smaller or slightly larger or the one with […]
Records
Records by Donovan Kelley Weight records for sea fish are a phenomenon of the years since World War II. Before that there was little interest and no central body to formally vet and record big-fish claims. The Fishing Gazette simply noted large fish reported to them, likewise the Anglers’ News for its annual Big Fish […]