THIRTYARDS
Bass Fishing. At the pace of the saltwater flyfishing coast. Wexford, Ireland – est 2003.
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Strict conservation measures are already in place for bass in an effort to stop the steep decline in this species. Grapevine information suggests that bass may be making a comeback in some parts of Ireland but many of the fish are small. This brings back memories of great bass fishing on the Boyne in 1964 when I caught 125 large…
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I awoke today and found the frost perched on the town It hovered in a frozen sky then it gobbled summer down When the sun turns traitor cold and all the trees are shivering in a naked row I get the urge for going But I never seem to go I get the urge for…
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“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
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“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…
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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…
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‘Somewhere over the darkened curve of the world the sun and moon were pulling; and the film of water on the earth planet was held, bulging slightly on one side while the solid core turned. The great wave of the tide moved further along the island and the water lifted.’ William Golding – Lord of…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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