Wexford coast · est. 2003
THIRTYARDS
At the pace of the saltwater fly fishing coast.
From Jim Hendrick
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Where to start.
What this coast gives, what it is losing, and what the loss opens.
The work
One stretch of coast, over a long time.
Bass on the fly along the Wexford shoreline — the gullies, the oarweed, the two-hour tidal windows. The fishing, the writing and the photographs are the work. The book is what the time has produced.
Saltwater fly fishing · bass behaviour · shoreline ecology · coastal observation.
From the book
It becomes a thing you do with your attention, the way another man says his rosary.
The sea is quieter now in a way that has no sound.
It has ruined me a little for the rest of life, which mostly asks to be looked at and not truly seen.
The cast is the easy part to love. It is shapely, it photographs well, men frame it.
Rising Tide Setting Moon
Lately, from the coast
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Notes from the Field
Instagram is no longer where I post photographs on the run. From today they go here.
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Hurdy Gurdy
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Forlorn fly
White deceiver
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Influences
The elastic stretches on a northerly and snaps on a southwesterly. Forty years believing the fishing was the snap, and…
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Eclipse
Ninety-odd percent of the sun gone from a Wexford evening, and still not dark.
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Days like these
We had fished the fly early that morning, from the shore. By the time we came to the point the…
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Submission
Ireland’s National Nature Restoration Plan is due on 1 September 2026. This is the submission I made to it —…
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Destiny
— after Krzysztof Kieślowski
The writing is on The coast.
From the coast
A few recent frames.
Long enough on one stretch of coast to know its habits, and to notice when one changes.
By email
New writing from the coast, whenever there is some. No schedule, nothing else — just the piece, when it’s finished.
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