• This is THIRTYARDS FROM JIM HENDRICK

    Notes from an ongoing adventure taken at the pace of the flyfishing coast -Wexford, Ireland.

  • 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 coast to the 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

  • At the reef

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

  • A day on the coast

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

  • The Blue 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

  • The 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

  • 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

  • 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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You

 Posted on April 27, 2024

In touch

“I want to be outside because I want us to reassociate with the reality of life as a thriving, pulsing, risky – and yes – decaying thing. I want us to be back in touch with old stuff in old places, and newness in new places. I want us to get down to the bedrock, to our foundations, and feel into the endless cycle of beginnings and endings that punctuate a life.”

 Posted on April 15, 2024

A lever, a spring

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 Posted on April 12, 2024

Next

 Posted on April 11, 2024

Unregulated

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 Posted on April 6, 2024

Approaching

weekend of wind and high tides

 Posted on March 31, 2024

Essence

Behind the cotton wool ishidden a pattern… the wholeworld is a work of art… thereis no Shakespeare… noBeethoven… no God; we arethe words; we are the music;we are the thing itself. Virginia Wolf

 Posted on March 28, 2024

Saline solutions

Because, at the end of the day, It’s all about the experience.

 Posted on March 25, 2024

Cathedral

 Posted on March 22, 2024

Catch and Release

THIRTYARDS

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