CHAPTER 5 – GOOD DAYS, BAD DAYS Things That Go Bump In The Night A light westerly wind was blowing across Dover Harbour. The moon briefly appeared, then was gone again behind the clouds. The earlier rain had stopped but the ground was still wet. It was
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Sampling Very Small Bass in a Bass Nursery Area by Captain Derek Goodwin To begin, bass spawn at sea 20 miles or more off shore starting in February, continuing for a few months. The hatchling bass larvae mingle with the plankton, but somehow move inshore to enter estuaries
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CHAPTER 5 – GOOD DAYS, BAD DAYS A Week In September Although I made a promising start that year in the Brighton area with six bass in the boat in late May and early June, by late September I was lamenting the passing of yet another season.
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I Wish I’d Seen That One by Donovan Kelley It was undoubtedly a big one, much bigger than the 3-pounders I had been catching. On feeling the rod she took off at speed down the estuary, heading for the open sea beyond. At the bar, some hundred yards
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Food Rich Lagoons by Marc Cowling Not to be confused with a harbour containing mud flats and the like, the official definition of a ‘lagoon’ is a stretch of water separated from the sea by a sandbank or reef – which is precisely what these bass ‘food
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