The water within thirtyards
Coastal Blog
The longer writing — bass fishing on the Irish coast, and the coast itself — and some pieces from the book for you. The twelve I’d stand over are on The coast; everything else is in the archive.
Short notes from the shore are on TideLines; the photographs are on Seeing.
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Rigging up
Since August most of my free time has gone into this site rather than onto the page. This is an account of what I’ve done, why, and where it goes…
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Hurdy Gurdy
For the thrill of it.
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Forlorn fly
White deceiver
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Influences
The elastic stretches on a northerly and snaps on a southwesterly. Forty years believing the fishing was the snap, and it never was.
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Eclipse
Nearly gone now and still not dark
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Days like these
We had fished the fly early that morning, from the shore. By the time we came to the point the tide was rising, and the point was doing what a…
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Submission
Ireland’s National Nature Restoration Plan is due on 1 September 2026. This is the submission I made to it — a case for treating the recreational sea bass fishery as…
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Destiny
— after Krzysztof Kieślowski
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Lady’s Island Lake
An important open public meeting will be held at 7pm on Nov 17 at Lady’s Island Community Centre on nitrate pollution. An Taisce’s Head of Advocacy & freshwater expert, Dr…
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Greed again
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Lighthouse
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Divine Deep
— after John Moriarty, Turtle Was Gone a Long Time