BassLureFish Evidence Finder.

Graeme here. I am a bit late to the party, but I see you guys are having some great fun with the comments. Got to be one of the best ones I have seen, as it's good to see such interaction. Let me kick off by saying I just turned up randomly, I paid my £3 ticket as I wanted to report on an unusual type of fishing. I'm not a member of the perfect fish police, as I can't see how people say they are concerned about fish welfare when they stick a hook in it's mouth ?? If you are truly concerned then the logical step is to give up fishing and take up needlepoint. As for using a dropnet I would say it's impossible as the best bite is on the ebb tide and the water is ripping through. That's why the Bass are there. A dropnet would be dragged straight under the pier into the ironwork etc and you lose the net, line..and the fish. As for 40 feet ? I would suggest 12 feet maybe. If it was 40 feet that would be almost two stories of a block of flats !! In the film I catch a Pouting, whack a hook through it and drop it back for a bigger Bass...so how come the Pouting Police aren't whingeing about that ? Or are they trying to say the Bass is a far more important fish than a Pouting ? One commenter is correct in that tons of trout are dropped from an airplane to stock unreachable waters.That's a fact. The plane is doing, I guess 100mph ? The height ?..several hundred feet, so a drop from a pier doesn't compare. I do agree that you don't need a towel for Bass, I hold mine no problem, so I guess they don't want to be spiked. Another commenter mentioned that the the best thing to do rather than bitch is to go down there and give some of the locals a mouthful of what you feel...Very good luck to you pal, I suggest you take out medical insurance first because some of them looked as they they could certainly look after themselves. Finally, and here is the best bit. Two Fisheries Officers were down there on the pier while I was filming, talking to anglers and giving out measurement stickers. So some of you who are still in a cold sweat about fish handling might now want to think about that...And of course I realise the Bass purists won't like to see ordinary folk catching "their" special fish (and on lures too!) I love Bass and release many, but it's just a fish. But keep on commenting, I think it's great to see the crossover from Freshwater anglers who probably don't even go sea fishing. Fortunately I have a foot in both camps .