THIRTYARDS

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

Category: Bass Notes

Bass notes are observations and experiences – based over time.

  • Beware the barrenness of a busy life -Socrates

  • SOS

    Get your Voice Heard! Dear Sea Angler/Conservationist You have previously helped the Save Our Sea Bass Campaign – thank you very much for your valuable support.  Now we need your help again. If you want to: Get back the daily bag limit for sea anglers; Cut commercial bass fishing pressure; and Save the Sea Bass stock…

  • Coupling

    Start to mentally couple the weather and the tide in your mind and before you go fishing you will almost certainly get that ‘primeval’ feeling of what to expect from your best angling marks. Subconsciously you will begin to make decisions about when and where to fish and even when not to fish. Then slowly…

  • More broadly, nobody is going to teach you to think for yourself. A large fraction of what people around you believe is mistaken. Internalize this and practice coming up with your own worldview. The correlation between it and those around you shouldn’t be too strong unless you think you were especially lucky in your initial…

  • Opportunity realised

    – It will be rain tonight. – Let it come down. William Shakespeare – Macbeth The weather can recreate both the world and indeed ourselves. But is it the change in ourselves because of weather that often brings us closer to the fish? William my brother and many other friends experienced amazing bass fishing this…

  • Bass fishing

    The places and the times where the fish take us – the moments of value beyond that which we often forget through the catching of fish. The activity keeps us in the now.

  • Fishing with the fly

    THIRTYARDS Bassfishing Saltwater Fly – Jim Hendrick

  • Afternoon, mesmerised

    There are times when the things you see you sometimes doubt they are actually happening. I’ve seen a lot of things when bass fishing but today’s events were a little new to me. I stood at the edge of a reef with white water breaking in front of me, waves running maybe to a metre…

  • Important research work carried out by Thomas K. Doyle, Damien Haberlin, Jim Clohessy, Ashley Bennison, Mark Jessopp. ‘For many marine migratory fish, comparatively little is known about the movement of individuals rather than the population. Yet, such individual-based movement data is vitally important to understand variability in migratory strategies and fidelity to foraging locations. A case in point is…