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 […]
Water Temperature and Catching Bass
Water temperatures are always useful for my bass fishing – especially at the beginning and end of the year. There exists an (admittedly imperfect) relationship between water temperatures and whether bass feed. By using water temperature you can help decide whether its likely to be worth starting to fish for them early in the year, […]
My Location X
Bass anglers once had a reputation for being sneaky secretive types who skulk out under the cover of darkness and would rather sacrifice a limb than share a secret bass mark. How things have changed over the last few years eh! Each set of spring tides we see a giant super shoal of Bass sweep […]
Magical Mystery Lure
We all have our favourite lures, those that inspire high levels of confidence in their ability to tempt bass when other lures will not. Some anglers get more than confidence with certain lures though, and just feel outright lucky. What I feel with one of my lures is something altogether more powerful. I acquired my […]