The Lure Of Big Bass – Part 1
The Lure Of Big Bass (Part 1) by Donovan Kelley I have never been interested in competitive fishing – and have only limited interest in records. Peter Collins, the genial former editor of Sea Angler, asked me once if I caught many bass over 10lbs, and whether I directed my fishing specially to the big […]
A Lifetime With Bass
A Lifetime With Bass by Donovan Kelley Several readers of my earlier book, ‘Forty Anglers, 1994’, have asked, “When am I going to write another?” My answer has always been. “Never” – until very recently when I found myself with a lot of typescripts on my hands. Written with the Bass Society’s magazine in mind […]
Donovan Kelley – Life With Bass
Donovan Kelley is often regarded as the leading light and authoritative source of much of what we now know of bass biology and behaviour, and for which he was so rightly awarded an MBE in 1991. He was the man who did more than any other to advance our knowledge of bass ecology and behaviour, […]
Donovan Kelley 1918 – 2008
By Malcolm Brindle When I was a boy in the 1950’s I read the Fishing Gazette in the local library. An article written by Donovan Kelley about bass fishing caught my eye. It ignited a pilot light that has never diminished. Many years later I noticed in the BASS magazine that he required scale samples […]