2nd Guide Client Catches – 2nd Biggest of the Season!

2x PBs in 5 minutes for Joe’s clients, during a session in which the wind and weather were circumnavigated.

Our Guiding Year in Review 2025

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

A compendium of ‘Client Catches’ courtesy of 2nd Guide Joe, and a multitude of methods and lure types.

How bass can be as predictable at times as they are unpredictable!

Hard and soft lures, line, rods, boots, knots, and nets. Here’s my best performing pieces of kit this year.

Surface Lure, Soft Plastic, and Darkness – how one of my regular clients has excelled alongside me this season!

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

Mind over matter definitely comes into a bass lure fishing session – but have faith, and you will prevail!

Via DIY, dogs, book launches, and conceiving and testing gear, these are My Personal Catches from 2023

A summary of my 2023 Guiding Season and how it evolved during what was most certainly a ‘wind influenced’ year!

A selection of client catches, achieved within atrocious water clarity conditions, with a specific type and colour of lure.

Three recent examples of when my clients have landed some magnificent bass on ‘cheap or copied’ lures…