The bass fishing from Poole can be very productive with many varied venues & techniques from offshore drifting with live sand eel, anchoring reefs with live mackerel and very light spinning. Bass fishing normally starts in earnest around the end of May when the chance of good numbers of small mackerel increases. As the shoals of small fish thin out over the summer the chance of a double increases, after the end of September it becomes increasingly harder to catch bait, but if the weather is fair we sometimes get good numbers of bass right up to Christmas. The best tides for bass are big ones. The minimum size for bass is still 36cm however I like to keep to the NFSA size which is 41cmand I also like to see fish over 8lb go back, these are not boat rules just guidelines to help save these magnificent fish.
Have a look below at some of the bass caught from my previous boat Seajay, hover over the image to see a larger picture.