THIRTYARDS

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

Category: Coastal Notes

  • Unpretending

    In the street and in society I am almost invariably cheap and dissipated, my life is unspeakably mean. No amount of gold or respectability would in the least redeem it — dining with the Governor or a member of Congress!! But alone in distant woods or fields, in unpretending sprout lands or pastures tracked by…

  • Try and travel with the eyes of the spirit wide open, and not too much factual information, to tune in…. You can extract the essence of a place once you know how. If you just get as still as a needle, you’ll be there. Lawrence Durrell

  • Beware the barrenness of a busy life -Socrates

  • August ’05

    Blue white deceiver – St Helens Wexford. During a run of fish both day and night (Fish ran all day with moving water) the blue and white deceiver was simply unbelievable for many weeks through to September. I learned so much over a three week period, in hindsight its difficult to remember a run of…

  • “Pat de Groot, a painter who embodied an era when the beaches and dunes at the tip of Cape Cod were peopled with artistic geniuses and incorrigible eccentrics — often in the form of the same person — died on July 26 in Brewster, Mass. She was 88” “I want to grab a piece of…