A conservation-minded Macnab

Bass are back in the estuary in good numbers. Around the south coast of Britain, small ‘school’ bass move inshore during spring and summer months, feeding on crustaceans, shrimps and sandeels. They join larger resident fish, which take crab, mackerel and even sea trout. For sea anglers, it is a time of great variety and excitement.

I was introduced to bass fishing as a boy. But the late 1980s inland sea species were scarce, and I was never bitten by the bug in the same way as shooting caught my imagination; there seemed to be too much waiting and not enough action.

“There was too much waiting and not enough action”

Now that numbers have recovered and my children have embraced night fishing and catching from a kayak as being seriously good fun, I find I too have