Category Bass Fishing Influences

Don’t just do something – stand there P.I

AFTER TEN YEARS Here’s what I love about guiding, as in guiding as a sustainable responsible business It is very difficult and at times very complex It is tough, very tough – it really is, the toughest thing I’ve ever…

A sense of reality really!

Tourist anglers may well have have certain preconceived notions and mental images of an angling destination before they ever visit. Expectations are one of the driving forces for the initial desire to visit any particular destination. If customer effort is…

Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn

Its November already, October seems to have blown by in an early autumnal rush that I missed completely. Cedric from Switzerland was due on one of the tidal weeks but due to the obvious and early indications that it wasn’t…

The bass angler – Part I

‘……And further still beyond that the gannets wheeled and dived, fishing shallow they were scarcely airborne before plunging again into the shoal of bait. The sea and the tide and the sky and the light spoke to us of what…

Catalytic

Clive Gammon 1929–2012 I could never have known then what was going to happen. It was the start of it I guess, the Summer and Autumn of 2003. Three days in a car with Terry Thomas and Clive Gammon, bass…

The Wexford Wolf

The cover of one of Germanys best selling angling magazines features Wexford bass fishing this month – a six page feature that can only do good for angling in Ireland in many ways. Thanks to Holger, Holger and Markus. A…