THIRTYARDS

I’m guessing that angling for bass has always been such a special experience for me that all I want now is to preserve that personal sense of being both challenged and...

InTouch Outbound Powerful, easy casting line built for exceptionally long casts, with ultra-low stretch performance. RIO’s InTouch OutBound lines are designed to cast very long distances. Each line is heavier than...

“Happy the man…with a natural gift for practicing the right one [art] from the start– poetry, say, or fishing; whose nights are dreamless; whose deep-sunk panoramas rise and pass like daylight...

“In September the cooking apples abroad on the trees beside the haggard would be bursting with ripeness and only barely clinging to the branch. Some would have turned to rot on...

Directors Note. “I’m not sure what it is with Ireland. I feel more at home here than any place else. There’s no Irish blood, no history, no good reason for it,...

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Wexford bass fishing

EAGLE  –  There she is Isaac. Useless Island. There seems to be a bit of an auld fog comin’ down around her. ISAAC  –   Yeah, its queer spooky lookin’, ain’t...

A strange silence is evident. Last Thursday evening I bass fished in a southerly blow. Wet, windy, the waves broke and hissed and the rain fell heavily. Just on the edge...