Mark Yule became the envy of many sea anglers in the UK when he boated this huge 13lb 10oz bass during a trip fishing off the Blackpool coast. The Lancashire-based sea fishing fanatic was aboard his own boat named ‘Incentive’ when he hooked the specimen on a lure around four miles off the shore. “The north west doesn’t make the ...
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- 07 September 2012
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- 20 August 2012
The man accused of stealing a big bass from his local aquarium and entering it into a sea fishing competition appeared in court again last week. Guernsey resident Matthew Andrew Clark pleaded guilty to falsely claiming to have caught the 13lb 13oz fish in the Bailiwick Bass Club fishing competition, but denied a charge of trespassing at the island’s aquarium ...
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- 06 August 2012
Just how far would you go to win £800 in a fishing competition? Probably not to the same lengths as the angler who broke into his local aquarium, stole the biggest bass which for over a decade has been its main attraction, and then weighed it in as a shore-caught winner in a four day-long bass festival. The huge fish ...
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- 18 July 2012
“The bass are getting bigger all around the coast – and a new British record is definitely on the cards!” That’s the bold prediction being made by leading sea anglers after a huge 16lb 6oz specimen was landed in bumper a week which also saw dozens of double-figure fish caught and a monster specimen which would have smashed the national ...
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- 09 May 2012
Few sea angling venues can better the surf beach for atmosphere and heart-thumping angling excitement, with the noise of the pounding waves stimulating the basic angling instinct. But what’s going on underwater and where are the bass feeding? Surf is synonymous with bass, and most anglers are in agreement that fishing for this exciting and sporting species really takes some ...
Ray Crowe, a 45-year-old plasterer from High Wycombe in Bucks, fished aboard Dick Peckham’s Poole, Dorset-based Strongbow with a mackerel livebait to take this 7lb-plus bass. “We had a great day’s inshore bassing,” says Ray, “and I really enjoyed playing this fish out to the side of the boat.”
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- 04 November 2011
Dover angler Paul Collingwood enjoyed a brilliant mixed bag while fishing aboard his own boat over the Texaco Caribbean shipwreck on the Varne Bank in the middle of the English Channel. As well as taking a number of bass to a best of 9lb, he also boated this cod weighing 8lb. A red Sidewinder shad proved the winning lure for Paul.
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- 24 October 2011
Double squid mounted Pennell style and fished downtide lured this superb 12lb 3oz bass for Herne Bay, Kent small-boat angler Barry Seabrook. He was fishing from his own boat, Jessica Blake, off the coast of his hometown, and said: “I beat it on 12lb class gear, which gave it a chance to scrap really hard. "I took it ashore to ...
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- 18 October 2011
Here’s concrete proof that the big cod have returned to the south coast of Ireland. Arnaud Briere, a visitor from The Liberty Peche Club in France, is holding aloft a 24lb 6oz beauty caught on a soft lure while fishing from one of the Bellavista, self-drive boats at Cobh, County Cork. Just to top things off, Arnaud later added a stunning ...
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- 17 October 2011
