[Mr. X]

Spoken with the confidence of experience. I will give it try. I think I have the bits & pieces required. Not sure about availability of squid/calamari round here (had to buy a card today - easy, local store only had one option!) - I will look out for it though. We often buy mackeral, the book I borrowed shows a mackeral head used as a bait for bass - any good? Was wondering about the artificial baits Miles mentioned, or the vacuum packed fresh sandeels (I see sandeels, or something similar, a lot in the waters I fish)... as I tend to only get a few hours fishing in every couple of weeks.

On holiday we'll prob. buy some local fish, most likely mackeral to eat. The leftovers can be used as bait (or to bait my cray/lobster/bait trap). Might be worth getting a big bag of squid/calamari in for the hol.