Forlorn fly
White deceiver
Category Fishing
Eclipse
Ninety-odd percent of the sun gone from a Wexford evening, and still not dark.
Days like these
We had fished the fly early that morning, from the shore. By the time we came to the point the tide was rising, and the point was doing what a point does on a big tide — driving water hard…
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Submission
Ireland's National Nature Restoration Plan is due on 1 September 2026. This is the submission I made to it — a case for treating the recreational sea bass fishery as a coastal ecosystem rather than a stock, and a measurable restoration pathway for the habitats that hold it. Written from forty years of watching one stretch of the Irish south-east.
Destiny
“Live carefully, because there are people around you whose lives and well-being depend on your actions. This concerns all of us, because the paths — these people and their destinies — cross each other all the time, whether we are…
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Men, grandfather, Jim Busher, Captain Coningbeg.
Nobody
Lighthouse
Divine Deep
Out there, in that Divine Dark,Out there, in that Divine Deep,The fishing is good,The fishing is very good. Out there, in that Divine Dark,Out there, in that Divine Deep,The fishing, not fishing at all, Is blessedness, is bliss.’ (Turtle, Vol.…
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