It’s no great secret that my favourite genre of sea fishing here in the UK is surf fishing, for bass. There’s nothing I enjoy more than standing waist deep amidst the fizz and surge of a lively surf beach, holding a light beachcaster while waiting for the first electrifying rattle and tug on its tip. But if conditions on my favourite beaches are not suitable for a session in the surf, or increasingly these days these beaches are busy with surfers, swimmers and a throng of holiday makers, a session on a remote rock mark comes a very close second.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s ledgering a juicy lump of freshly picked peeler crab at close range in a rocky, kelp filled gully with a pushing tide slowly making its way shorewards was the way most bass anglers targeted their favourite species. These days bait fishing for bass can almost be regarded as being something of a forgotten art. The popularity of
