THIRTYARDS

Bass Fishing. At the pace of the saltwater flyfishing coast. Wexford, Ireland – est 2003.

Author: Jim Hendrick

  • A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

  • The first three months of  the year and August reported above average mean temperatures, with remaining months of the year reporting colder than normal conditions in most places. March was the warmest month, relative to average, with deviations from normal above 2.0°C at some Dublin stations and in parts of  the West and Southwest. These…

  • A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

  • ‘And then the one day you findTen years have got behind youNo one told you when to runYou missed the starting gun’ Pink Floyd – Time Ten guided ‘fishing years’ have got behind me already, and sitting here writing this its hard to believe. I’ve seen, experienced, witnessed and learned a lot in those guiding…

  • Saltwater Fly Fishing Primer
  • A season remembered in video shorts 2012 revisited P.I 2012 revisited P.II 2012 revisited P.III 2012 revisited P.IV 2012 revisited P.V 2012 revisited P.VI 2012 revisited P.VII 2012 revisited P.VIII 2012 revisited P.IX 2012 revisited P.X 2012 revisited P.XI Click on any of the links above to visit some of our experiences during 2012. I…

  • Clive Gammon 1929-2012 VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL I could never have known then what was going to happen. It was the start of it I guess, the Summer and Autumn of 2003. Three days in a car with Terry Thomas and Clive Gammon, bass fishing and driving around the southern coasts of Wexford, trying to…

  • ‘There comes a time in all of our lives when we let ourselves dream about living life on our own terms. When we wrestle with the decision to take a step into traffic, follow our passions and live deliberately ­‐ or simply let another day, and daydream, pass. In the end, it doesn’t matter if…

  • It wasn’t perfect but it was good enough, ‘it’s gunna happen’ I whispered. He kept looking at the fly, stripping, focused, and still crouched. Only moments left, half a meter, and then suddenly there was that unique sound of a big fish hitting a surface fly, an explosion of white water. A sudden moment of…