Thirtyards is a personal project. Its still largely a work in progress, a vehicle, a place, a companion. I anticipate it coming slowly into existence over the seasons of 2014 and 2015 and on-wards. Its basis is largely as an accompaniment to a plan for a book. A book based in the bass fishing that I have encountered on the coast of Ireland, both fly and lure. The Thirtyards layout has just finished consolidating in my mind particularly over the past few weeks. To be honest it is still evolving a little through the accompanying features that exist on this web template, some of which I am still coming to terms with.
Thirtyards is also a place where you can find the thoughts of many people on fishing including some of my own as I put them down for the book. It is too, a place, where you can find limited unique bespoke guided saltwater fly fishing adventures on the coast of Ir
Out on the coast
eland. At the moment I feel a huge sense of anticipation, largely because I’m excited by what might lie ahead, and there’s a lot of time and work ahead, but also, I am challenged by ‘what content’ might want to find its way on here. I am taking my time.
Thirtyards is ultimately about a plan but its also about time and place rather than distance or numbers or how… at the moment an unmeasured bass fishing universe exists inside my mind.
Poets talk about “spots of time,” but it is really fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can tell what a spot of time is until suddenly the whole world is a fish and the fish is gone.
Norman Mcclean
Thirty yards out he leaps from the water, falling back with a mighty splash, then he turns and makes for the rocks and breakers on my right. A few palpitating seconds of heavy pressure and I have him travelling towards me, when suddenly he slows up and I feel as if I had a 30 pound salmon on my line instead of a good sea-trout. He has run into weed.
R.N. Lochhead – Rod Well Bent 1951
Saltwater sea trout fishing
David is pleased to report he has been shortlisted by Artists And Illustrators Magazine for their annual ‘Artist of the Year’ award (to be held at the Mall Galleries in January 2015) with his painting ‘Bass, Mackerel & Sand-eels’. He would really appreciate it if you could spend 5 minutes to vote for this piece (if you like it of course!). You can find the link here: less http://lnkd.in/bDib9rQ
THIRTYARDS 
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