So there we have it ….
Battered into submission ! With a seemingly endless queue of storms moving in from the Atlantic, it seems that for most areas in the UK the season is now probably over. It’s a shame, as for some areas, this can be a pinnacle of the season, but the conditions just aren’t allowing the opportunity for […]
Drop Shot Bassing
The drop-shot method of fishing is a technique usually associated with freshwater predator anglers. It was through my off-season interest in perch fishing that I first chanced upon this method. My brother-in-law Simon Nicol, is a fanatical perch and zander angler and I owe a lot of my more recent technical lure fishing developments, and […]
He who dares !!
This is the business end of the season for bass anglers ! Some anglers have already cleaned their gear & put it away for the winter, and whilst that might be the right move in some of the Northern areas of the country (perhaps), as you head further South, if you aren’t thrashing the sea […]
Watch the birdie – Trophy shots
Gone are the days when people want to see trophy shots of dead fish on the kitchen sink, garden path or outside the local tackle shop. Camera technology is cheaper these days & indeed most people use their mobile phones to take a trophy picture of the fish that they catch. So there is no […]
How hard can it be.
2013 has been a tough year (so far) for a lot of bass catchers. One could probably speculate a long time as to the reasons for this – from the cold winter, the late spring, right through to the commercial pressure finally taking its toll. Sure the scientists have eventually caught up with the rest […]