THIRTYARDS

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

Category: Fishing

  • We all know that our cold seasons differ greatly in intensity, and bass fishermen know that success in fishing varies equally; but from what cause these results flow, no one can positively say. Robert Barnwell Roosevelt – The Striped Bass – Published 1865

  • What do I know of bass fishing except the surety of the mysterious ways the fish move in and out of my life

  • Then and now

    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 excited whenever I fish for them. Saltwater fly fishing for bass with the current methods I use is difficult. I don’t catch many fish,…

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  • panoramas

    “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 through the rod’s eye or the nib’s eye.” Seamus Heaney, The Haw Lantern

  • “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 the tree; more would have fallen to the earth – the barest puff of a breeze would dislodge a big fat cooking apple in…

  • 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, but that’s the way it is and how it always has been. Perhaps it’s better to be simply grateful rather than question these things.…

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  • to let this place know

    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 it? EAGLE  –  Not at all. (slight pause) ISAAC  –    I don’t think me Ma is exactly over the moon about all of…