Bass Anglers’ Sportfishing Society

Fighting for Bass and Bass Anglers’ since 1973

Winter (Part 2)

CHAPTER 9 – ‘MORA’ Winter (Part 2) Mora stayed feeding in the open area of the harbour until the early snow water began to come down from the hills, and the continuously cold winds cooled the water sufficiently to make her swim out to the deeps. As she travelled out towards the wreck that was […]

Winter (Part 1)

CHAPTER 9 – ‘MORA’ Winter (Part 1) Year followed year, and with the passing of time Mora grew to exceed 10lb. Her natural enemies became fewer and fewer and she left the shoal to hunt on her own. She was a creature of habit, and her life was governed by seasonal changes and migrations of […]

Autumn (Part 2)

CHAPTER 9 – ‘MORA’ Autumn (Part 2) At this time the tenants of the reef changed as some of the summer visitors, who had come there to spawn, departed on their winter migration to warmer southerly waters. Others, following the shoreline until they tasted the waters of their parent river, came to run up the […]

Autumn (Part 1)

CHAPTER 9 – ‘MORA’ Autumn (Part 1) During the last ice age the glaciers that started high up in the hills gouged U-shaped valleys from the ancient Cambrian rock and, moving remorselessly down towards the frozen lowlands, carried great boulders and stones along with them. When the climate changed and the land became more temperate, […]