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A Coastal Adventure saltwater fly-fishing for Bass along the coast of Ireland, when I can ! – Creator of Thirtyards – Bass Fishing Guide 2003 – 2015

Category: Bass Fishing Influences

  • Christmas street

    A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

  • Don’t just do something – stand there P.I

    AFTER TEN YEARS Here’s what I love about guiding, as in guiding as a sustainable responsible business It is very difficult and at times very complex It is tough, very tough – it really is, the toughest thing I’ve ever done It very often has very little to do with fishing During a guided day…

  • A sense of reality really!

    Tourist anglers may well have have certain preconceived notions and mental images of an angling destination before they ever visit. Expectations are one of the driving forces for the initial desire to visit any particular destination. If customer effort is high and those high expectations are met, high customer satisfaction is likely. Adversely, an individual…

  • Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn

    Its November already, October seems to have blown by in an early autumnal rush that I missed completely. Cedric from Switzerland was due on one of the tidal weeks but due to the obvious and early indications that it wasn’t going to work because of deteriorating weather we re-scheduled until next year. In an already…

  • The bass angler – Part I

    ‘……And further still beyond that the gannets wheeled and dived, fishing shallow they were scarcely airborne before plunging again into the shoal of bait. The sea and the tide and the sky and the light spoke to us of what it meant to be in this place just at this time as fishermen. Like a…

  • Its beginning to feel that fish might be on their way

    Wexford Harbour May evening 2013 VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL       A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

  • The weather of 2012 Cold and very wet

    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…

  • Catalytic

    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…

  • The Wexford Wolf

    The cover of one of Germanys best selling angling magazines features Wexford bass fishing this month – a six page feature that can only do good for angling in Ireland in many ways. Thanks to Holger, Holger and Markus. A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim