These are some strange and worrying times, but I will do all I can to keep this blog going and hopefully provide a bit of fishing related cheer and info for you kind readers
The brand new, stunning looking Marc Cowling Signature Needlefish, plus some brilliant thoughts and info (not mine!) on needlefish lures and our bass
Does it really matter how long your lure fishing rod is?
I hear some bass anglers saying that they find fishing with soft plastics a bit boring, but why is this?
If there was one part of your bass lure fishing you'd like to improve upon or learn more about, what would it be?
No fishing blog today, heading up to Loughborough for the Inter Counties Cross Country Championships
Savage Gear Waterproof Rollup Rucksack 40L review - you should be able to find it for around £50, plus how I use rucksacks and what I expect from them
I sometimes found myself ripping my SG Seeker in because the lure felt like it had picked up weed, but there was none on there
Apart from surface lures which we usually need to work, do you tend to “animate” your diving, minnow-type hard lures?
Screw you Penn and Sufix, and for two entirely different reasons
What are the odds that those first bass you catch in a new season are the first fish to turn up on that particular spot?
I can now tell you about this new missile that is the Savage Gear Sandeel Pencil 150 lure
I’ve been wearing breathable waders for more than twenty years and sometimes they are not perfect, but I still think they are invaluable and I haven’t found a viable option
I know we obsess and complain about the weather all the time here in the UK, but how much rain can there actually be in the sky? Interesting new lure rod coming for a test though.
I look in my lure boxes with a growing suspicion that I should be carrying more darker coloured lures, and I blame the Black Pearl coloured SG Seeker for this
I haven’t been lure fishing for that long and I wonder how bass anglers were targeting fish back in the good old days over some of the ground we now treat as normal
When using paddletails on jig heads, do you turn to a weedless or an exposed, J-hook version more?
So when will the new season kick off?
How light can a spinning reel actually be and are ever more lightweight reels the be all and end all?
Do you tend to concentrate on specific parts of the water column if and when you chase bass on lures at night?
