When Bass Don’t React by Donovan Kelley Many readers will have had the unhappy experience of catching a nice bass which gives only token resistance to the rod; more like a cod, say, or a ray, than a tough, hard-fighting predator capable of tremendous bursts of speed. Why
Read more →Do Lights Attract Bass by Donovan Kelley A simple question. And a simple answer? Not in my experience. Young bass do seem to be drawn to fixed quayside lights situated in the tideways of nursery estuaries; but I am thinking of the larger bass. With them the position
Read more →Of Fishing Diaries by Donovan Kelley “However do you remember all this?” asked my wife Betty. “From my diaries, of course”. “But all that detail of species, weights, numbers; even, of how they reacted to the hook?”. “It’s all there. Photos too. Have a look”. She had been
Read more →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
Read more →Right Place, Right Time by Donovan Kelley At the mouth of the Lynher estuary, near where it joins the Tamar, there is a small unfrequented quay, rarely used. It makes a pleasant picnic spot. It also produces, on its day, lots of flounders. One sunny afternoon, not
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