THIRTYARDS

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

Category: Fishing

  • Where are we now with our bass fishing?

    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 of a system. In a two hour period I landed and returned two very nice fish. I was extremely lucky and delighted too. The…

  • A different space
  • Do you have the guidebook? Sea Trout Fyn, 25 years in the service of sea trout have written an essential buddy to accompany you along the coastline of Fyn, Ærø and Langeland. Fyn and the isles offer kilometre upon kilometre of coast just made for sea trout and sea trout anglers. More than 1,100 kilometres…

  • ICONIC – fish, ecotourism

    Protecting South America’s Iconic Golden Dorado Fish Supporting regional ecotourism and sustainable fishing May 26, 2015 – Source University Mass AMHERST, Mass. – A new study launched this month by University of Massachusetts Amherst fisheries biologist Andy J. Danylchuk, in collaboration with Argentina’s Ministry of Environment and regional partners including Juramento Fly Fishing, Tigres del…

  • Familiar

    Few movements of wild creatures run to an exact timetable, year in, year out, and few are without their aberrant individuals; and few of us know our own familiar waters quite so well as we think we do. Roderick L. Haig-Brown – Fishermans Fall I’ve spent much of May indoors so I’m missing a valuable…

  • La peche a la mouche du bar

    La pêche à la mouche du bar, du bord, est certainement l’approche la plus exigeante qui soit, la plus gratifiante aussi. Jim Hendrick, un spécialiste hors-pair dans ce domaine, revient sur les connaissances et les techniques de base qu’il convient de maîtriser afin de tirer son épingle du jeu. Simplicité, observation, discrétion… et si c’était…

  • A season begins shortly

    There is a deep satisfaction in acquiring knowledge of a place and the things that live there. You become familiar with the stones that lie along the inner estuary shore and the way they have been laid in patterns by forces, forces and actions that you can’t figure, forces over time that must have shaped…

  • Island

    Fly fishing for bass in clear water. Its not always easy and in fact good water clarity and high visibility is at times damned difficult especially when its mid summer sun Decrease fly size Decrease fly ‘visibility’, fish a more translucent fly Go to a brighter fly, I link pink and white or chartreuse and…

  • “..and another said she went mad in the autumns, as she had no house and it was warm in the Asylum, and if she didn’t do a fair job of running mad she would freeze to death; but then in the spring she would become sane again because it was good weather and she could…