Bass Anglers’ Sportfishing Society

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Once You Pop, You Just Can’t Stop!

CHAPTER 5 – GOOD DAYS, BAD DAYS Once You Pop, You Just Can’t Stop! Despite catching many bass on plugs, I have never, until recently, had much luck with surface poppers. I have impulse bought quite a few such plugs after reading various BASS magazine articles and gleaning other information from members. I genuinely thought […]

Live Prawn And Float

Live Prawn And Float by Donovan Kelley A time-honoured method sadly neglected today. A Bass Society correspondent asked if members had any experience of live prawn as a bait for bass. I have – a lot. It was a long time ago but I cannot imagine that bass have lost their taste for prawn. In the […]

Walking On Water

CHAPTER 5 – GOOD DAYS, BAD DAYS Walking On Water Two anglers marched purposefully down the beach towards the water. Arriving at the foamy boundary dividing land from the ocean, they did not break stride as they waded out towards a destination seemingly beyond the horizon. Floundering in their wake I struggled to keep pace, […]

Carry On Carrahane

CHAPTER 5 – GOOD DAYS, BAD DAYS Carry On Carrahane “Yup, Carrahane Channel is the place to be if you want a big bass tonight. You’ll need live sandeel though, none of that frozen stuff. First of the flood in the pool, where the lagoon runs out to the sea”. With that Liam was off […]

Bass Fishing In Other Days

Bass Fishing In Other Days by Donovan Kelley I have recently been going through my old Fishing Gazettes preparatory to disposing of them. It will be a wrench to see them go, but they take up yards and yards of shelf space and neither my son nor my son-in-law would want to take on that sort […]