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Professionally guided lure fishing for bass, from the beautiful south Devon coastline.

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Client Catches – Clarity, confirmation and a cracker of a bass!

Testing out the new camera! Just in time to witness a client’s 5lb bass.

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My Recent Catches – Autumn round-up

Some new lures, three release videos and catches during bright sunny days and the dead of night.

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Client Catches – Moonlight, bites and bass!

A leap of faith – But was it the light levels, the turn of the tide or both that made the difference?

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My Recent Catches – The story of my personal best bass

A special memory that very nearly didn’t happen.

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Client Catches – Patterns in habits and behaviour are key!

Why keeping a diary is so important to your levels of success.

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Client Catches – Wet and wild bassing!

10 (small) bass for my 2 clients on a multitude of lures, from locations they’d never considered fishing before.

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Client Catches – New PB taken on a surface lure

PBs broken, in addition to expensive rods! A good old laugh out on the shoreline.

Client Catches – Fly fisherman converted!

Something very different to the local reservoir! Five lure caught bass in one session.

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Client Catches -Warming up nicely!

A few lost, but a bit of lateral thinking saves the day for a client who had travelled a long way.

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Bass Lures – Is there an optimum size and shape?

Are there advantages to uisng smaller lures? Will bass hit them with more vigour?

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Guided Bass Fishing – August arrives with a bang!

Another client PB bass and a very young angler catches his first!

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The Story of July – Satisfying success and near misses

Client catches and my continued experiments in the dark.

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