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The Hodges Brothers Part 3: Accuracy is Everything

In the 3rd part of their presentation Kim and Clive explain how going lighter on tackle produced more heavy-weight bass and they chart their progress as they plotted the next stage of their big bass campaign. • Nigel plays at being a bass • 90% or more of their bass are returnable using circle hooks […]

The Hodges Brothers Part 2: AA Man to the Rescue

  Kim and Clive Hodges explain how their fishing developed over 40 plus years of trial and error but it was Clive’s chance encounter with an AA man which got them back on the road to their impressive double-figure bass tally. Part 2 includes: • Why live baiting? • The importance of John Darling’s writings […]

The Hodges Brothers Videos: Part 1

  How A Flat Car Battery Changed Our Bass Fishing It seems a sibling theme is developing in the presentations at the BASS AGM, as following the White brothers last year, this year we had the Hodges brothers. Although somewhat less amphiboius than the Whites, Clive and Kim are no less successful, given their catches […]

Beneath The Terns – An Audio blog

Here is the latest audio blog recorded last week when fishing on the south coast of England. These audio blogs are still very much an experiment for me:  the sound quality varies somewhat and I still havent quite got the hang of always commentating on what I am seeing, yet hopefully in some small way, […]

The Trophy Shot

Memorable fishing trips aren’t just the ones that end with the obvious trophy shot. Six years back, when in Cornwall on holiday I had my fishing friend Chris staying. A national paper needed a picture of him with a bass for a weekend supplement article about a soon to be published book. When we are […]