I’ve been biding my time a little and now that a ‘personal benchmark’ approaches I’m anticipating what might lie ahead. Mind games are always complicated things to play and I generally resolve them by just getting on with it. Its the waiting that causes the anxiety. The path taken to the end and the ensued…

Soft lure and surface lure fishing VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL One of those excellent evenings of fishing that will go down in memory. Two names have featured regularly on this website since I began guiding in 2003 – one of them is Illex fishing gear the other is the regular French customer Jean Yves…

Sunny Summer Sunday VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

‘…this had to do with many things, loss of confidence, three seasons of many customer cancellations, absent fish, resulting financial instability and the sheer difficulty faced by the loss of any forward promotional angling momentum, especially in the false, self created, belief that everybody else seemed to be having a whale of a time and…

A nice day today with William and Niall – a good start to the season of 2013 too. Under difficult conditions and amidst weather warnings the new ‘normal’, fishing has resumed! A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

XXXV All day I hear the noise of waters Making moan, Sad as the sea-bird is, when going Forth alone, He hears the winds cry to the waters Monotone The grey winds, the cold winds are blowing Where I go. I hear the noise of many waters Far below. All day, all night, I hear…

A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

The many things I think about when I know the fishing for bass is closed, probably too many! The bass guiding business and its operation is limited and I have always accepted those limits, plugged those constraints into the business model so to speak. I fully realise its difficult times in Ireland at the moment…