RUNDOWN: Bass are trying their hardest to hit Island beaches, with a few quiet catches of shorts taken by static rodders throwing clams or, a tad costlier, juicy bloodworms, the larger bloods sometimes referred to as bass worms. I recall times a flat of bloods would come into shops and there was a grabby rush to nab the bass-grade jumbos, i.e. the bigger the worm, the bigger the bass.

A far juicier bass bite is exploding in bay areas where unmasked schoolies have shown out the wazoo, one angler…