tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-131999832010-02-09T22:42:07.546ZThe website of the Bass Anglers' Sportfishing SocietyPaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03931463090333184484noreply@blogger.comBlogger200125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13199983.post-23741995409145465642010-02-09T22:28:00.004Z2010-02-09T22:42:00.361Z

Please help to protect the Irish bass stocks Irish bass caught in an Irish net, photo courtesy Allan Hughes If you visit Ireland to fish for bass you need to know that your future fishing is in danger. The Federation of Irish Fishermen (a commercial fishing organisation) has placed a proposal before the Irish Minister to allow them to land bass taken from waters south of the line 51.30N,

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Durable, Transparent, Light Weight Its O.k. untangling a box full of lures at home, but when bass are on the bite, you need lure changes to be slick & trouble free (I tried lure bonnets . . . but always ended up dropping/losing them). Using individual lure boxes makes changing lures quicker & hassle free. Take the top off the box, the eye of the lure is there ready to accept your loop or clip

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We need to give BASS the opportunity... Henry Gilbey, fanatical sea angler, angling photographer, journalist and broadcaster, who is well known for his television fishing shows and his work in the angling media, has this week given a ringing endorsement to BASS and the conservation and political campaigning work we do. Henry has his own website and in his latest blog he says: "...the more I

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Decline Alarms Anglers UK anglers will soon start to see a disastrous decline in both the number and size of bass available in the important and valuable Recreational Fishery. That is the conclusion from studies that show an alarming reduction in the number of juvenile fish coming into Southern nursery areas indicating a collapse in recruitment in recent years. And if that isn't bad

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By Malcolm Brindle When I was a boy in the 1950's I read the Fishing Gazette in the local library. An article written by Donovan Kelley about bass fishing caught my eye. It ignited a pilot light that has never diminished. Many years later I noticed in the BASS magazine that he required scale samples from Portland bass for his voluntary research and so began a correspondence that lasted until

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'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 Restoration Team of the Bass Anglers Sport Fishing

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'We could lose and entire year group' says BASS. "A cruel trick of nature threatens the first positive signs of a recovery in the recruitment of bass stocks" says John Leballeur, Chairman of the Bass Anglers Sportfishing Society's Bass Restoration team. "Following three disastrous years when bass recruitment seemed to be failing, 2008 saw the late arrival in shallow nursery areas of a year

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Don't Lose this Chance says BASS. BASS are urging the Fisheries Minister, Jonathan Shaw, to adopt a strong position ahead of the review of the Common Fisheries Policy by 2012. BASS are demanding that UK national and regional legislation created for the protection of our close-inshore fisheries apply to all vessels fishing within the UK's 12 mile limit, whatever their nationality. 2012 may

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The view from Bob Cox and TSF> We reproduce below, an article which appeared in the most recent issue of Total Sea Fishing Magazine (a David Hall Publication). The article provides an update on the first Fisheries Challenge Fund project to directly involve anglers. BASS is not itself involved but is watching these developments with keen interest. We feel that visitors to this site might find it

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The book of the Society: 'Bass and B.A.S.S.' A superb selection of articles and letters from the B.A.S.S. magazine over the years, with some new material specially written.Designed, edited and published by Geoff Gonella in conjunction with Peter Macconnell and John Morgan. Bound in hardback with dust wrapper, a high quality book.Price: £28+Post & packaging:UK: £5 (1 copy), £8 (2 copies)Rep. Of

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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 far below spawning age, because there is no quota for

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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 response to the

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We should never eat a fish that has never had the chance to breed. With widespread and still growing public concern about over-fishing, and the terrible waste from fishery discards, most people would be horrified to realise that some fishermen are targeting the wild bass stocks before they have ever had a chance to spawn. Despite the fact that such small fish are readily and cheaply available

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[Comment - We reproduce below, an article which appeared in the June 2008 issue of the angling trade magazine 'Tackle & Guns' (a David Hall Publication). The article covers the tackle industry's only trade body, 'The Angling Trades Association', suggestions for the future of sea fishing in the UK, in connection with the Government's proposal for a Recreational Sea Angling Strategy. BASS is

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Recent scientific evidence shows that UK bass stocks are collapsing. BASS demands urgent government action John Leballeur, Chairman of the BASS Restoration Project team has stated that in over 20 years of bass sampling, he has never seen a period when the numbers of young bass have been so low, for so long. Shocked by the emerging evidence, the Society has written to Jonathan Shaw MP,

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Length to weight conversion measure for European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) The BASS tape measure has been designed to enable bass anglers to have a packable and durable piece of equipment which dispenses with the need to carry a set of weighing scales. On one edge are the measuring increments (in centimetres) and on the opposing edge the length to weight calculations (in lbs and ozs).

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[photo - Clive Hodges (left) receiving the trophy, for the heaviest bass (12lbs) caught on natural bait in 2008, from angling author, Chris Yates. The fish was released. - photo courtesy Alan Parfitt] On Sunday 30 March 2008, BASS members from all points North, South, East and West, including one member from the 'Emerald isle', descended upon Oxstall Tennis Centre, Gloucester for the BASS AGM.

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BASS welcomes 'no licence' decision Commenting upon yesterday's statement by Jonathan Shaw MP, the Fisheries Minister, that proposals to introduce a sea angling licence are to be dropped, BASS spokesman John Leballeur said "At last this administration is beginning to show some sense, when talking about recreational sea angling". At the recent 'Angling Summit' held in the Palace of Westminster,

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Anglers battering the fish heads of Europe After ten years of stubbornly refusing recreational sea anglers any say in managing fisheries, the European Council has given up and agreed that the euro 8- euro 10 billion (£6-8 billion) they generate each year now qualifies them as a genuine part of the community's fishing industry. Sea angling has been denied a role in the Common Fisheries Policy (

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The next issue of the BASS magazine, No. 124, is scheduled for distribution to all BASS members on 4 March 2008. In addition to the editorial, officer's reports, the letters column and other regular features, the magazine will also contain the following articles:- ........last man standing - Steve Butler A new angle of attack - Alan Behenna Halcyon days - Simon Everett Crouching angler hidden

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"Defra appeasement and inactivity will destroy bass stocks for everyone" Cornish inshore commercial fishermen have finally admitted that bass stocks in Cornwall are over-fished. In the 18 January 2008 edition of Fishing News, skipper David Bond of Looe, explained that the lack of available quota for species, such as, cod and sole, has forced the inshore fleet to increase the pressure on non

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BASS goes to Parliament Demanding more bigger fish. On the 21 January, the Bass Anglers' Sportfishing Society (BASS) will be meeting with MPs of all parties to discuss proposals to further develop the valuable UK Recreational Bass Fishery. Though the new Fisheries Minister (Jonathan Shaw MP) recently backed down from increasing the legal size at which bass can be taken, there are still

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Question of Trust Labour is on course to lose the Angling Vote That is the conclusion that many are coming to in the aftermath of the recent decision by Jonathan Shaw MP to abandon previous government policy to protect the UK's important and valuable Recreational Bass Fishery. With local fishermen's organisations protesting that reduced fish quotas for 2008 are likely to drive some smaller

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The next issue of the BASS magazine, No. 123 is scheduled for distribution to all BASS members by about 10/12 December 2007. In addition to the editorial, officer's reports, the letters column and other regular features, the magazine will also contain the following articles:- That's the way to do it Catch and Release and catch again Mistakes are made Winding up The Longest Day Grand Slam If

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Minister's "heartbreak" over cod - and over bass, too The fisheries minister (Jonathan Shaw) today described on BBC Breakfast as "heartbreaking" that EU rules were forcing fishermen catching cod in the North Sea to throw them back dead. Richard Ferré, chairman of the National Federation of Sea Anglers, said today that a month ago Mr. Shaw himself in a scarcely publicised move, committed an

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