Bass Anglers’ Sportfishing Society

Fighting for Bass and Bass Anglers’ since 1973

Summer Solstice Bass

Arrangements were made for a 6-45pm meet with Phil ‘The Fly’ at location Y. My pager going off alerting me for a fire call at 5-00pm & another one at 6-25pm had delayed me somewhat. So an hour later than agreed I parked up at the car park for the mile plus hike to meet […]

Short-range Bass fishing

So I creep down to the waters edge. First light hasn’t appeared yet, but there’s just enough light from the half-moon to allow me to move across the reef without using my headtorch. I assembled my rod at home last night, rigs prepared, knots tied neatly, so nothing to do but thread my crab onto […]

Lining it up …

Some very good lure anglers (with a lot of quality bass under their belts) like to fish braid straight-through. Some very successful anglers like to fish mono straight-through. There seems to be a very large proportion of Bass anglers using a combination of braid & a fluro (or mono) leader material though. New recruits to […]

Teaching another …

I have fished with many people over the years, some in freshwater, some in the salt and others in both.  But until relatively recently all of these people have been anglers. My brother-in-law Alex had never fished at all, not even a mackerel trip whilst on holiday, when he declared an interest in having a […]

A lesson learnt ?

A Lesson Learnt? June 2008 – The Climber The plan was for a month’s climbing in Geyikbayiri, Turkey with the objective being an ascent of a hard sport climb called Black Moon. But here I am, four days into the trip, with too many beers and too few easy acclimatisation routes under my belt, standing […]