Our Guiding Year in Review 2025

2025 was our BEST season to date!! Here’s the highlights, catches, and successful lure types and venues.

Client Catches – ‘Getting’ the Needle…

Can you target ‘bigger’ bass on lures? I believe you can, and utilising a needlefish is another proven way!

At 70cm, this is the 13th bass over this length landed by one of my clients since I commenced business.

Although forced into it somewhat, I’ve found some early-season success from a variety of venues – here’s how.

This follow-up discusses some fine client catches, and how bass may hunt through sensing movement and noise…

My latest concept – a surface lure that has been designed, developed and constructed by TC Lures.

Some recent client catches landed the ‘hard way’ – on hard diving minnows, top-water and needlefish lures.

Darkness, the right lure, the right technique and some accurate casting after ‘reading’ the ground save the day!

My first 3 Day Package of 2021 has confirmed what I suspected – the big ones are waiting until nightfall to feed…

The remarkable story of my ‘new Personal Best Bass’ – what a way to start the season!!!

How I landed a mid-winter ‘Pit Bull’ in addition to a clutch of ‘night time marauders’ since the New Year.

Happy New Year! 2020 brought about numerous challenges – some obvious, and some less so. Here’s my summary of events…