Thankfully ,here in Ireland,its shaping up to be a reasonably good season ,with decent numbers of Bass seen on every session,and lots of mullet,if you want to dive certain mullet marks,i'll probably get accused of been a tree hugger again,but maybe its time that the u.k introduced some protection for its premier saltwater gamefish ,its easy to blame others ,as in French/Spanish trawlers ,but when I was bassing strong with my crew ,ground baiting and plugging ,we often had over 100 bass in a night/dawn session ,if we were killing everything ,we could of killed a couple of tonne of Bass in a season,every season.That was just 3 guys with a couple of rods each,now multiply this by thousands of anglers,albe it not all as good as us
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