THE BASS CRYSTAL BALL
I’m pretty sure that most anglers look forward to their fishing sessions with eager anticipation and part of that feeling is about NOT knowing what you’ll catch, or indeed IF you’ll catch. Anticipating what you might catch Perhaps if we were able to predict what we were going to catch, how many fish and how big they […]
Anglers Attack Brussels
‘Junk this ridiculous proposal’ says BASS After years of urging the EU to adopt sensible conservation measures and being ignored, UK anglers are turning on Brussels in anger at ridiculous proposals to bureaucratise their sport and to criminalise anglers who fail to tell them what they have caught. John Leballeur, the chairman of the Bass […]
Bass Slaughter
We are losing our bass stocks A combination of unfolding circumstances is leading to the rapid destruction of the country’s inshore bass stocks and a loss of the valuable Recreational Sea Fishery, along with thousands of jobs in the Recreational Sea Fishing sector. Already under great pressure, and with a legal minimum landing size set […]
BASS Challenges Minister’s Smokescreen
Minister’s Parliamentary answers duck the issue. BASS, the Bass Anglers Sportfishing Society, has rounded upon the answers given in Parliament by the Fisheries Minister, Jonathan Shaw, to Bill Wiggins the Conservative Shadow Fisheries Minister, seeking information about recent scientific evidence pointing to a recruitment failure in the UK bass stock. In a statement issued in […]