• On coastal waters flyfishing for bass

    ‘I had my existence. I was there.
    Me in my place and the place in me.’

    Seamus Heaney

  • Uncoding ALL LANDSCAPES

    The timeless waves, bright, sifting, broken glass, Came dazzling around, into the rocks, Came glinting, sifting from the Americas. – S.Heaney

  • From the reef to the kelp forest

    I thought the earth
    remembered me, she
    took me back so tenderly, arranging
    her dark skirts, her pockets
    full of lichens and seeds. I slept
    as never before, a stone
    on the riverbed, – M.Oliver

  • ACTIVELY PATIENT

    It don’t do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing. – T.McGuane

  • TIME INVESTED

    A man is never lost at sea. – E.Hemingway

  • THE LONG REACH OF THE FLY

    The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know. – E.Hemingway

  • With principles of least time

    Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years,
    Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe
    Are brackish with the salt of human tears!
    Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow
    Claspest the limits of mortality! – PB.Shelley

  • WHERE WHEN

    But that is not the question. What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in the immense confusion one thing alone is clear. – S.Beckett

  • From Autumn Transition

    Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising. – R.Carver

  • Through to Summer Threshold

    I know I’m a long way from greatness, but I am beginning to come at it in my own way. I can go through the basic motions pretty well, don’t rely quite as religiously on specific fly patterns as I once did, have worked out ways of compensating for some of my most egregious weaknesses and have come to count heavily on timing because it’s a hell of a lot easier to catch fish when the fish are biting. – J.Grierach

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I believe that saltwater fly-fishing places us deep in the coastal heart of the natural locations we discover whilst pursuing the fish. Catching the fish on the fly is often about these places, where and when, but its also about much more; its about being immersed in the things we sense on the way, there and back. The good moments, the fun, the challenges we face, the learning, and the technique through… Read More

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In flight

…. In the camaraderie of rookeries, in the spiteful vigilance of colonies I was at home. Seamus Heaney From Sweeney Redivivus from “Station Island” (1984)

 Posted on January 19, 2026

Destiny

“Live carefuly, because there are people around you whose lives and well-being depend on your actions. This concerns all of us, because the paths – these people and their destinies – cross each other all the time, whether we are aware of it or not. That’s what responsibility means to me – to live carefully and attentively. We should observe people around us, and most of all ourselves.”

 Posted on December 7, 2025

Men, grandfather, Jim Busher, Captain Coningbeg.

 Posted on October 17, 2025

Nobody

 Posted on September 1, 2025

Lighthouse

 Posted on August 30, 2025

Divine Deep

Out there, in that Divine Dark,Out there, in that Divine Deep,The fishing is good,The fishing is very good. Out there, in that Divine Dark,Out there, in that Divine Deep,The fishing, not fishing at all, Is blessedness, is bliss.’ (Turtle, Vol. 1, pp. 213-21) John Moriarty

 Posted on August 19, 2025

Water moves

 Posted on July 22, 2025

Plan

 Posted on July 21, 2025

Fishery

 Posted on July 9, 2025

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