Bass fishing made Easy!

Bass, often called the king of the sea is highly priced by anglers and a popular choice with chefs. Since it a voracious predator feeding on sardines and mackerel it has high oil content and tastes very delicious. The European bass is found in warm water areas of the British Isles and are found in plenty along the southern coast. In Southern England bass breed mainly in tide races, over reefs and shingle banks, in spring and early summer. A young bass is called a school bass. The young bass fishes normally stay close to the shore until they are four years old. Male bass are the first to mature at a length of 32-35 cm while female bass have a length of 42 cm at the time of maturity. And then they begin their annual seasonal movements between their summer feeding areas and winter pre-spawning areas. They feed mainly on crustaceans and invertebrates and can also tolerate the brackish waters of the estuaries. Adult fish can be found on wrecks as deep as 30 fathoms, harbors, bays, shallow estuaries and sometimes fresh water rivers as well. Although bass can be caught throughout the year, the best time to fish for sea bass is during the summer when mature, migrating bass is often found close to the shoreline.

The coasts around Kent offer some of the finest bass fishing in the whole UK. Large numbers of visitors are attracted to the place due to its close proximity to densely populated cities like London and other south east towns. The place offers a wide range of landscapes favored by bass including creeks, deep waters, piers and harbors, estuaries, shallow sandy beaches, deep shelving gravel beaches and open sea. Spring is the time when many anglers are in pursuit of bass. At this time, they come to feed on the crabs and can be caught very close to the shore. Fishing over the top of the banks may yield bass during early summer. During the summer bass are found in abundance both inshore and the seas as well. Bass are present in sufficient numbers during the autumn also. You may employ various methods to fish for bass including cast baiting, fly fishing, wreck fishing, rough ground fishing, spinning, lure fishing etc. Bass seems to prefer live baits- so keep the bait tanks ready.

Dungeness Beach in Kent is considered one among the top twenty beaches in UK. The main fishing ports in Kent include Folkestone, Dungeness, Ramsgate and Whitstable. The major fishing venues in and around Kent includes the rocks between Dover and Folkestone, Hythe, Shakespeare beach and Dungeness. The major venues for pier fishing include Princes of Wales Pier, Admiralty pier, Samphire Hoe and Southern Breakwater. Recreational fisheries are one of the main sources of income in Kent. There are numerous sea angling clubs in Kent which regularly organises angling competitions. The areas also attract other kinds of tourism and provide livelihoods to hundreds of people.