THIRTYARDS

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

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  • Stopped is a presentation too

    THIRTYARDS Bassfishing Saltwater Fly – Jim Hendrick

  • Balance found

    THIRTYARDS Bass Fishing Saltwater Fly – Jim Hendrick

  • So a new similitude is given us And we say: The soul may be compared Unto a spoonbait that a child discovers Beneath the sliding lid of a pencil case, Glimpsed once and imagined for a lifetime Risen and free and spooling out of nowhere – A shooting star going back up the darkness. It…

  • The past is already too late

    Why would fisheries managers, who openly admit that harvesting too many spawning females caused the last decline, go out and do the same thing again, allowing anglers to take two fish a day over 28 inches? I am not just using my fishing success to judge the health of the striper population; I’m getting information…

  • The Current These fish have no eyes these silver fish that come to me in dreams, scattering their roe and milt in the pockets of my brain. But there’s one that comes – heavy, scarred, silent like the rest, that simply holds against the current, closing its dark mouth against the current, closing and opening…

  • There is a serious trend in evidence among all fishing interests toward viewing equipment as the key to great fishing. People believe that with the right equipment they will enjoy more success, as measured in both quantity and size of striped bass. I have been made acutely aware of this trend through my online associations…

  •   STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS S.I. No. 230 of 2006 BASS (CONSERVATION OF STOCKS) REGULATIONS 2006 S.I. No. 230 of 2006 BASS (CONSERVATION OF STOCKS) REGULATIONS, 2006 I, John Browne, Minister of State at the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 15 of the Sea-Fisheries and…

  • But from behind me came intimate noises: the door of a house closing, voices, a lawn mower. And, to great extent, this is the character of bass fishing from the shore. In very civilised times it is re-assuring to know that wild fish will run so close that a man on foot and within earshot…

  • Skelton climbed out of the boat and, running the line through his fingers lightly,  began to wade the tidal creek. The mosquitoes found him quickly and held in a pale globe around his head. He waded steadily, flushing herons out of the mangroves over his head. At one point, he passed a tiny side channel, blocking…