Free Workshop Saturday May 19th – from 09:30 – 14:30
I’m afraid due to demand this workshop is now full – thank you, Jim
As part of the fisheries awareness week 2012 May 12th – May 19th – I will hold an introductory workshop here at SEAi (FOC of course). The workshop will include an overview of all current methods used for bass fishing this will include a short trip to the sea for a little practical session – tea and coffee will be served.
Plan for morning
09:30 – Arrival
10:00 – Introductions and workshop
11:15 – Tea and coffee
11:30 – Workshop
13:00 – Practical at waters edge
- Influences
- Timings
- Tides
- Conservation and protection
- Gear including lines, leaders rods and reels
- Soft bait rigging, fishing methods and choices
- Hard baits and their applications
- Saltwater fly fishing for bass an overview
As places are limited please contact me at sportfishing@eircom.net
If you have a younger member of the family looking to start in this fantastic fishing then this is the place for him or her…..
Regards Jim
Landing Gear
Rod – Illex Element rider 220m
Reel – Shimano Twin Power 3000
Line – Fammel – 9kgs
Leader – Rio Fluoroflex +
Lure – Illex I-Shad, Illex gambit jig head
Rising tide into a glorious spring sunset, a great evening today with William and Richie. The fish were behind the waves riding in and out. All Illex equipment available at SEAi – Wexford
Does Recreational Angling contribute to the economy?
Inland Fisheries Ireland(IFI) has appointed Tourism Development International (TDI) to undertake a Socio-Economic Survey of Recreational Angling in Ireland. The overall objective of the survey is to establish the current volume and value of domestic and overseas recreational angling in Ireland. It will run over the course of 2012.
Pike, coarse fish, bass, salmon, sea trout, brown trout and sea anglers will all be invited to participate in Irelands most comprehensive angling survey undertaken in decades. The Survey will inform IFI and its tourism partners in relation to the angling product in Ireland and also enable improved strategic planning and decision making in respect of product development and marketing.
‘Anglers are the key to this survey’, commented Minister Fergus O Dowd, TD, ‘they know the resource and they understand the importance of sustainability. What anglers contribute to Ireland’s economy is unknown but I am certain that it is significant. Angling takes place in every river and lake in Ireland and all around our coastline. There is no town or village in Ireland that doesn’t have anglers. It is imperative that the inland fisheries and sea angling resources are managed in the best way possible to ensure enjoyment for our local and visiting anglers, sustainable jobs in rural communities and maximising its potential to add to Ireland’s economy. Getting the right information from those most involved will greatly assist in improving the angling product.’
The survey comprises two parts, a household survey and a survey of recreational anglers which will commence in April. Anglers will be met at fishing locations throughout Ireland and invited to participate there and then, or later by phone or on-line. Every effort will be made to accommodate participation.
…ENDS…
Look: There’s a glimmer of light to the east.
Now, heres why we’re out at this hour. During the night, fish of the size we’ve been catching glide drowsily along at a rate of something less than seven inches per second. They idle all night without eating. They become famished. A few minutes before dawn-just about now-their inner alarm clock goes off, and they begin to rove. In the first ten minutes after the onset of light in the sky there is a sudden upsurge in their swimming speed; they have started at once to range for food. Twenty minutes after daybreak they put on their greatest spurt of the twenty-four hours and swim between twenty and thirty inches per second; they’re capable of much greater speeds when attacking a prey. The sun will come up over there, about where Hyannis lies beyond the horizon, in just a few minutes, at five twelve. So we should be on the alert for some fast-swimming blues at between five twenty-five and five thirty. Just about when the clock down in the cuddy strikes three bells, we should hook a fish.
Taken from- Blues by John Hersey
The presentation that I made for Hooked Live is also available through the slideshare on line presentation software – I purchased the option just before the show to make the SS available through an embed on PBF.
Today, long after I had forgotten about my account creation I received and auto email from slideshow telling me that more than 1,000 people have viewed or downloaded the slideshow.
I hope that it has been of some help to you whom have taken the time – I’m never going to be the best presenter by any means, and looking at the slide show only a small part of the information comes across through the slides, there is simply layers and layers to be spoken about at each stage. 30 minutes is not enough for such a subject!
Thanks for your time and bendy rods for 2012
The fig flames inward on the bough, and I,
Deep where the great mullet, red, lounges in
Black shadow of the shoal, have come. Where no light may
Come, he, the great one, like flame, burns, and I
Have met him, eye to eye, the lower jaw horn,
Outthrust, arched down at the corners, merciless as
Genghis, motionless and mogul, and the eye of
The mullet is round, bulging, ringed like a target
In gold, vision is armor, he sees and does not
Forgive. The mullet has looked me in the eye, and forgiven
Nothing. At night I fear suffocation, is there
Enough air in the world for us all, therefore I
Swim much, dive deep to develop my lung-case, I am
Familiar with the agony of will in the deep place. Blood
Thickens as oxygen fails. Oh, mullet, thy flame
Burns in the shadow of the black shoal.
by Robert Penn Warren
THIRTYARDS 
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