Long time favourite fly colour of mine Lavender and Grey, when combined with pink and grey and a ‘secret ingredient’ blended by Brian is leading to success on these bright sunny days.
Shrinking the flatwing to mini size and tying it sparse almost to transparency then attaching a very fine tippet of fluoro of <= 3kgs has pushed our daytime fly catches up and up.
Great fun watching other members of the shoal mob the fish which had taken the flies in crystal clear conditions.
‘…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 bass were running the coasts in their multitudes!
This of course wasn’t true but when you work to develop and then market the fishing by yourself most of the time, well..!
The ‘loss of momentum’ was the biggest challenge I faced. Any guide is only as good as the last happy customer experience. Customers are happy for different reasons, new techniques, improved casting or fishing, any significant sense made of the angling environment, but generally a lot of it has to do with the actual fishing. The quality of the fishing for at least the last three seasons in Wexford seemed to be on a sliding scale of deterioration and culminated during 2012 with what I can only consider to be a complete disaster.’
Irish Angler Magazine July Edition 2013
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!
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 them flowing
To and fro.
James Joyce
– Chamber Music. Pomes Penyeach (1927)
June 16th approaches – and the best of luck for season 2013.
I have a feeling its going to be a FAR better one than we have had in either 2012 or 2011. Perhaps a return to the activity of 2010 but who knows?
Of course with wild creatures that are subject to many influences there’s no guarantee of anything but patterns do exist. If fish are not running the coastal shores at least from the 20th of June, and there’s every possibility they will be there on the 16th, then I think we may have a continuing problem that has extended from 2012.
With no evidence available to the contrary there’s every reason to expect fish numbers to build into June and beyond at this time. The high light levels, low rainfall, and good air temperatures of the past few weeks should have really helped. Apart from the extended cool easterly wind ‘project’ and the lower temperatures of May its nicely set up to begin well at this time.
If the weather was to stabilise again with some decent patterns we could witness a return to pre 2007 activity – much hinges on so little but fingers crossed!
Stay safe and bendy for 2013 – Jim
THIRTYARDS 
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