Category Coastal Notes

The challenge

Days are valuable in people’s lives, days free from the routine and rigour of work are even more sought after especially when they are linked to something that we enjoy doing. The freedom. I couldn’t help but feel disappointed when…

The distant sea

bass fishing on the fly Jim hendrick

..sometimes it happens that a marine biologist, wishing to study some related problem, will transfer a whole colony of the worms into the laboratory, there to establish them in an aquarium, where there are no tides. But twice each day…

By the wind

Bass fishing Jim Hendrick

‘In the beach flotsam there are often strays from the surface waters of the open ocean, reminders of the fact that most sea creatures are the prisoners of the particular water masses they inhabit. When tongues of their native waters,…

White water

bass fishing Jim Hendrick

Imagine breaking white water, turbulence, waves wind and seaweed, slippery rocks and sometimes warm driving rain sea mist and spray. You’re a right handed caster and the wind is blowing from the south west – force four touching five occasionally,…