Fighting for Bass and Bass Anglers’ since 1973

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Bass And B.A.S.S

Contents | Foreward | Introduction

Contents

Foreword – DONOVAN KELLEY MBE
Introduction – GEOFF GONELLA

CHAPTER ONE – KNOW YOUR QUARRY

Introducing the Bass  – DAVID HILL
Aspects of Bass Behaviour – DONOVAN KELLEY MBE
Underwater Colour – What the Fish See Deep Down – ALUN LEWIS

CHAPTER TWO – TECHNIQUES – BAIT FISHING

A Preference for Bait Fishing – MIKE CHANNON
Hayling Bass – DAVE RIGDEN
Surf Angling for Bass in Cornwall – NIGEL HESTER
Boat Fishing for Bass – MIKE BROWNING
Float – Fished Prawns – MALCOLM BRINDLE
River and Estuary Fishing for Bass – TONY LEE

CHAPTER THREE – TECHNIQUES – LURE FISHING

Start Spinning and Plugging – MIKE LADLE
Splash, Splosh, Wallop! – ALLAN HUGHES
Using Surface Poppers – STEVE BUTLER
Redgills From the Shore – PETER BADCOCK
The Shy Followers – ALLAN HUGHES

CHAPTER FOUR – TECHNIQUES – FLY FISHING

Bass with a Fly Rod – DAVID HILL
Flycasting Tackle – MIKE OLIVER
Try a Fly – Part 1 – NICK COSFORD
Try a Fly – Part 2 – NICK COSFORD

CHAPTER FIVE – GOOD DAYS, BAD DAYS

Taking Breath, and Having your Breath Taken Away – MATTHEW SPENCE
A Week in September – IAN GAZELEY
Things That go Bump in the Night – TONY HOOPER
Seven Days in Ireland – STEVE BUTLER
September – LEON ROSKILLY
Moonlight Tagging – ALAN AUBERT
The Secret Diary of a Worm Only Club Member – DAVE CORFIELD
The Dark Strand – WILLIAM HARRISON
New to Plugging – LEIGH DAVIES
Suffolk Bassing – Ambition Achieved – ALAN NARRACOTT
My First Ten Pound Bass – TONY HOOPER
Never Too Old – SHAUN GOULDING
Nocturnal Fly fishing – ‘SCADMAN’
A Cautionary Tale – DIANE RAWLES
A Bass and a Yak – PETER BADCOCK
Carry on Carrahane – DAVE CORFIELD
Walking on Water – MATTHEW SPENCE
Once You Pop, You Just Can’t Stop! – IAN MORRIS
A Day to Remember – STEVE BUTLER
Fly fishing in Mounts Bay – ROGER BAKER
The Early Bird Catches the Worm – HUW BAKER
Wrong Place, Right Time – JOHN HALL
Jersey Success – STEVE BUTLER
Wading for Bass – KENT SHERRINGTON
The Worm Only Club Angling Dictionary – DAVE CORFIELD
Reflections – BOB Moss
One Morning in May – STEVE BINCKES
Horses for Courses – STEVE BINCKES
A Pet of a Day – BOB MOSS
The Worm Only Club Rough Guide to Ireland – DAVE CORFIELD
A Tale of Two Bass – JOHN MORGAN
Just for the Record – DAVE BOURNE

CHAPTER SIX – LESSONS LEARNT

Trying Times – JULIAN FOX
Seeing is Believing – ANDY RYE
Alice’s Pipe – RICHARD HUGGETT
Bassing in West Hampshire – Time and Tide – MARTIN WALLER
Bassing via the Three ‘R’s – ION WILLIAMS
Footloose with a Fly Rod – NICK COSFORD

CHAPTER SEVEN – THE SOCIETY

Introducing B.A.S.S.
Thirty Years of the Society – DONOVAN KELLEY MBE
The B.A.S.S. Restoration Project – STEVE PITTS

CHAPTER EIGHT – PROTECT AND SURVIVE

Just a Dream? – LEON ROSKILLY
Bass Legislation – A Summary – GEOFF GONELLA
Bass Tagging 2000 – 2003 (Part 1) – JOHN LEBALLEUR
Bass Tagging 2000 – 2003 (Part 2) – JOHN LEBALLEUR
Catching the Smallest Bass – DONOVAN KELLEY MBE
Walls Have Ears – NICK COSFORD & GEOFF GONELLA
Nursery Areas – GEOFF GONELLA

CHAPTER NINE – ‘MORA’

Part 1 – Summer DAVID HILL
Part 2 – Autumn DAVID HILL
Part 3 – Winter DAVID HILL
Part 4 – Spring DAVID HILL

CHAPTER TEN – AMERICAN COUSINS

So What Exactly is a Striped Bass? – GEOFF GONELLA
Stripers Afloat – MIKE DUCKETT & TONY VALLACK
Swimming with Stripers – ‘SCADMAN’
Montauk in the Fall – MALCOLM GILBERT & MIKE OLIVER

CHAPTER ELEVEN – LOOKING BACK

A Chairman’s Reflections Then and Now – CLIVE GAMMON
Is There a Cure for Constipation? – JOHN DARLING
79510 and all that – PHIL HYDE
Experiences with Bass – BRIAN HARRIS

CHAPTER TWELVE – LOOKING FORWARD

The Bass Management Plan – An Overview – GEOFF GONELLA
One Last Cast – JOHN LEBALLEUR

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