Bass Lure Fishing - A Guide's Perspective (Volume 1)

NOTE: Information pertaining to The ‘Lure of The Bass – The Revised Edition‘ can be found here.

If you’re not catching, I can completely appreciate that is very difficult to comprehend four major components – which are:

1. Am I fishing in the right place?
2. Am I fishing at the right time?
3. Am I using the right lure?
4. Am I using the lure correctly?

With the above in mind, I thought that any readers who may be new to the bass lure fishing scene (of which I know there are more and more each day) might appreciate a detailed synopsis in regard to what is encompassed within each volume of my ‘Bass Lure Fishing – A Guide’s Perspective’ series. Indeed, when people kindly email me to enquire about my books, I am often asked three questions:

• What’s the difference between the three?
• Which book should they purchase first?
• Do they need to read them in order?

I hope that the information contained within this post, and the post associated to the release of ‘The Lure of The Bass – The Revised Edition‘ will assist you to come to your own conclusions as to which to purchase.

‘Bass Lure Fishing – A Guide’s Perspective’ (Volume 1)

“A download of everything I’d learned in a short space of time…”

Released in March 2021. Quite simply, ‘Bass Lure Fishing – A Guide’s Perspective (Volume 1)’ was a book that I needed to write due to the ‘information overload’ that was occurring in my head during the lockdown! My primary objective was to write a follow up that would teach the reader how to catch bass within an all-encompassing array, and inclusive combination of situations, conditions and venues.

So, alongside the rock and reef marks where I’d ‘earned my stripes’ as it were, Volume 1 also centres around how to extract bass from the following types of venues:

• Shingle and sandy beaches.
• Headlands and promontories (areas of enhanced tidal flow)
• Estuarine environments (where I spent 40% of my time leading up to writing this book).
• Something that I have come to specialise in – catching bass on lures in the darkness.

In a nutshell, A Guide’s Perspective (Volume 1) is a collection of events that catalogue and chronicle everything that I had come to learn in relation to bass lure fishing since becoming a Professional Guide (which was four years at the time of releasing it) and that I’d successfully transferred into my guiding, by virtue of the catches my clients and I achieved.

In writing my second publication, a further aspiration of mine was that I wanted it to be easier to read, understand and digest, and as such, it is more anecdotal in nature, whilst providing the reader with a series of learning points within each account specific to the planning, strategy, methods, tactics and lure types that were utilised. Above all though, I wanted to place the reader ‘in the moment’ so to depict just what it is really like to be attached to a beautiful bass whilst being guided on this equally beautiful coastline. The ‘confessions of a bass lure guide’ is how the Bass Anglers’ Sportfishing Society commenced their very positive review here.

The ‘Consequential Catches’ that shaped many of my new found approaches, the ‘Manual and Natural Triggers’ that the angler needs to be aware of, and can administer to maximise their chances. Also featured is how I initially perceived and subsequently came to recognise what are the many ‘Patterns and Anomalies’ associated to catching bass on lures through my continued note-taking and guiding adventures, as well a chapter relating to my ‘Favourite Client Captures’. In addition to all of this information, designed and described to enhance your chances of connecting with the UK’s premier sporting sea fish, I cover the ‘Biotic and Abiotic Factors’ that influence my year-round bass lure fishing escapades, alongside my amplified appreciation pertaining to ‘Bass Movement’ – a theme that is highlighted throughout…