BASS AND B.A.S.S.: SELECTED WRITINGS FROM THE BASS ANGLERS' SPORTFISHING SOCIETY. Compiled and edited by Geoff Gonella.

2008 1st edition. Large 8vo (157 x 240mm). Pp295. Colour photographs, bibliography. Blue cloth, spine titled in gilt.

Dozens of articles on bait, lure and fly fishing for bass, with chapters on tackle and techniques, fishing in Ireland and America, activities and history of the B.A.S.S., conservation, The Bass Management Plan and much else besides. Chapters include: Introducing the bass; Aspects of bass behaviour; A preference for bait fishing; Hayling bass; Surf angling for bass in cornwall; Boat fishing for bass; Float-fished prawns; River and estuary fishing for bass; Start spinning and plugging; Splash, splosh, wallop!; Using surface poppers; Redgills from the shore; The shy followers; Bass with a fly rod; Flycasting tackle; Try a fly (two chapters). Good days, bad days - Taking breath, and having your breath taken away; A week in September; things that go bump in the night; Seven days in Ireland; September; Moonlight tagging; The secret diary of a Worm Only Club member; The Dark Strand; New to plugging; Suffolk bassing; My first ten pound bass; Never too old; Nocturnal fly fishing; A cautionary tale; A bass and a yak; Carry on Carrahane; Walking on water; Once you pop, you just can't stop!; A day to remember; Fly fishing in Mounts Bay; The early bird catches the worm; Wrong place, right time; Jersey success; Wading for bass; The Worm Only Club Angling dictionary; Reflections; One morning in May; Horses for courses; A pet of a day; The Worm Only Club Rough Guide to Ireland; A tale of two bass; Just for the record. Lessons learnt - Trying times; Seeing is believing; Alice's pipe; Bassing in West Hampshire - time and tide; Bassing via the three R's; Footloose with a flyrod. The Society: Introducing B.A.S.S. ; Thirty years of the Society; The B.A.S.S. restoration project; Just a dream?; Bass legislation - a summary; Bass tagging 2000-2003; Catching the smallest bass; Sign of the times; Walls have ears; Nursery areas. 'Mora' - Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring. American cousins: So, what exactly is a Striped Bass; Stripers afloat; Swimming with stripers; Montauk in the fall. Looking back - A Chairman's relections then and now; Is there a cure for constipation?; 79510 and all that; Experiences with bass; The Bass Management Plan; One last cast. Contributors include: Geoff Gonella, Donovan Kelly, Alun Lewis, Mike Channon, Dave Rigden, Nigel Hester, Mike Browning, Malcolm Brindle, Tony Lee, Mike Ladle, Alan Hughes, Steve Butler, Peter Badcock, Allan Hughes, David Hill, Mike Oliver, Nick Cosford, Matthew Spence, Ian Gazeley, Tony Hooper, Steve Butler, Leon Roskilly, Alan Aubert, Dave Corfield, William Harrison, Leigh Davies, Alan Narracott, Tony Hooper, Shaun Goulding, 'Scadman', Diane Rawles, Peter Badcock, Dave Corfield, Ian Morris, Roger Baker, Huw Baker, John Hall, Kent Sherrington, Bob Moss, Steve Binckes, John Morgan, Dave Bourne, Julian Fox, Andy Rye, Richard Huggett, Martin Waller, Jon Williams, Nick Cosford, Steve Pitts, John Leballeur, Micke Duckett, Tony Vallack, Malcolm Gilbert, Clive Gammon, Phil Hyde, Brian Harris.