A Great Day For Our Bass!
You may well have already heard the fantastic news about the implementation of Emergency measures banning midwater trawling for spawning aggregation of bass in the areas they shoal up in prior to breeding (see here: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/mare/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=20186&lang=en ) This is the response of Nigel Horsman, the man who has led the the BASS campaign: “This is […]
And the winner is…?
Following the inability to reach agreement on emergency measures to reduce bass landings in December, the UK is trying to get temporary emergency measures at a European Union level. A ban on mid water (“pair trawling”) has been proposed for areas where pre-spawning bass aggregations accumulate at this time of year as they migrate […]
Big January Bass on Lures: An Audio Blog
A few days ago Julian Fox and myself ventured out on to a coloured stirred up sea at first light. We had travelled to the coast with our usual high expectation, yet the sight of the brown water with barely a foot of visibility appeared to have left us with little chance of a small […]
In the zone with bass blog team
An offer over the summer months of 2014 to attend the inaugural BASS blog team meeting in November initially sounding quite uninviting. Firstly it was to take place in Northern France, and the astute amongst you will have already spotted that this entails a ferry trip – in November. Usually a month of gales […]
Reflections on 2014
When it comes to the calendar year and bass lure fishing, there might be not be a perfect match between the end points, but things are approximate enough for me to now reflect on the season just gone. Looking back is more than just a luxury in nostalgia; it allows my plans and methods to […]