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, and I am writing it here as it comes.
Saltwater fly fishing · bass behaviour · shoreline ecology · coastal observation.
From the coastal blog
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The white blackbird
The mystery for me was the way the folded newspaper packet felt. Not only was it impossibly neat and flat…
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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 —…
From the coast
A few recent frames.
Forty years on this coast, twenty of them writing it down, and twelve — 2003 to 2014 — spent guiding other people onto it.
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