To be out there again in the middle of it. The rising tide over a magnificent wild coastline provides the energy, the medicine that I need now. Breaking clear white water, pushing through deep gullies creating currents where fish move to and hold and hold and move again. Knowing these places is knowing the fish, recognising the state of play and what is needed through good presentation and timings are the keys to catching the fish.
I learned this again over the past few days.
The new opportunities to continue to explore in an environment where I feel most alive, I realise now, are boundless.
Do not go gentle into that good night
Dylan Thomas, 1914 – 1953
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
IRISH GOVERNMENT SAY THEY WILL NOT RESCIND THE LICENCE ISSUED FOR HARVESTING NATIVE KELP IN BANTRY.
Deirdre Fitzgerald
Bantry, Ireland
9 MAY 2017 — This evening our Government and FG Minister Simon Coveney, Dept of Housing said they will NOT rescind the licence issued BioAtlantis to harvest 1860 acres of native kelp in Bantry Bay. They have ignored the 4,000 people who signed the petition, they have ignored the concerns of people whose livelihood may be adverserely affected i.e. those working in Tourism and Fishing. A spokeman for Minister Coveney acknowledges that the licence was not advertised correctly but they will monitor this for future applications to mechanically harvest native kelp in Ireland.
Bantry Bay will now be the trial for Ireland on mechanical kelp harvesting. If there is a negative impact on the ecology of our bay or coastal erosion occurs, they will amend future licencing to reflect this. We are devastated that our Government has disregarded so many concerned citizens of Bantry Bay.
We would like to thank Michael Collins, Ind. T.D. who took on the concerns of us here in Bantry Bay. We would like to thank everyone who signed/shared the petition, all who independently wrote to the Minister and any other action you took to support our plight here in Bantry Bay.
We will now have to examine how we go forward to address this issue.
For more please follow link HERE
Every year I return to the same places where I have always fished for bass. I find these places changed in different ways since I have last fished there, or ever fished there. The same is different and is new again.
For a long while there have been a few constants, the wind, the tide, the fish and of course the Danielsson.
Danielsson L5W Series
THIRTYARDS 
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