ANGLING – Bitterly cold weather and some hungry marine mammals kept the bass away from the inaugural Hook Bass Angling Festival in Wexford last weekend, as The Irish Times reports.

The angling went on regardless, however, with Mark Baker from Co Meath hooking a 1.5kg ‘schoolie’ of a flounder to take top prize of a five-day holiday at Grangecourt Holiday Homs and a day’s fishing with Jim Foley…..

Afloat.ie 05/11/2012.  Read the article ‘Bass fail to show at First Hook Bass Angling festival’