The Influence Of Year-Class Strengths by Donovan Kelley I am sometimes asked, “why is there such a conspicuous gap in the range of sizes I am catching?” The enquirer has been getting plenty of young adults in the 1½ to 3 lb range, and odd good fish of
Read more →Winters Of Discontent by Donovan Kelley Probably the worst thing that can happen to a young bass is a long cold spell in its first winter. Most recent winters have been mild, but cold spells can still occur. We had one in the 1995/96 winter and another in
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The Effects Of Stress On Bass And How To Reduce It by Steven Neely With the practice of catch and release becoming ever popular, there has been much discussion already on reducing unnecessary harm to our catch, such as de-barbing hooks, replacing trebles for singles and various
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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
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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
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