Just completed and updated the fishing planning for 2014 – HERE

This will update regularly over the next few months as reservations arrive.

I will publish more details of the Two- Day saltwater Fly Fishing Workshop later this month – I have indicated the availability of Fly fishing workshops on the planner – they can also be run on request if I have time available.

Time will travel quickly…

Looking forward to fishing with you all on the coast, please expect confirmation mails in the next few days – Jim

Please find below my planning for bass and seatrout fishing at this time. Where indicated I have both reserved and provisional reservations completed at this time. I have some work to do for dates regarding some workshops and the destination guided workshops, I will complete these during the next few days. Due to an unexpected cancellation September is fully available at this stage! This, however, will fill very quickly once it goes on here.

Thank you again for your Christmas vouchers and no doubt we will fill in the days on the planner as you confirm them to me over the next few months. Please be aware that all workshop vouchers are open ended and I consider them to be open until completed regardless of receipt date.

There will also be a Spring and Autumn Two day fly tying fly fishing fly casting workshop during 2014 including 2H rods and I will update the planner once these are decided.

Regards – Jim

Fishing and reservations 2014 by Jim Hendrick

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Rivers of a Lost Coast is a new documentary that looks at our relationship to nature through the eyes of the most fabled angling community in American history. This surprisingly touching film was recently labelled a must see by the San Francisco Chronicle and Seattle Times.

The following few paragraphs were written by George Snyder and appeared in the Santa Rosa Press Democrat on January 23, 1995. Although George misinterpreted a few facts, the large majority of the piece is accurate.

“Memorial services will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow at Calvary Catholic Cemetery in Santa Rosa for Bill Schaadt, perhaps one of the most widely known fly fishermen on the Pacific Coast.

“Mr. Schaadt, a native of San Francisco, died of cancer last Tuesday in Santa Rosa surrounded by his fishing friends and family. He was 71.

“Mr. Schaadt made his living as a sign painter along the Russian River after moving to Monte Rio as a young man. He was known locally as an excellent pen-and-ink artist, producing cartoon and drawings not only of his beloved fish but of other subjects as well.

“He was perhaps best known for his love of fly fishing, using the technique in the ‘50s and ‘60s along the Russian River and also on the Pacific Coast’s major salmon and steelhead streams, including the Smith River in the northern part of the state and the Chetco in Oregon.

“Mr. Schaadt is also credited with being among the first West Coast Fly Fishermen to successfully use flies to catch saltwater fish, including striped bass and rock fish.

“Despite his modest living circumstances, Mr. Schaadt managed to fish Costa Rica, in the Florida Keys for trophy tarpon and in British Columbia. Mr. Schaadt, who was a friend of the late author Ted Trueblood, a former fishing editor for Field & Stream magazine, was profiled in that magazine and also Sports Illustrated, Outdoor Life and other wildlife publications.

I’ve spent the last few hours compiling a set of photographs from the collection that I have made over the last ten years whilst guiding for bass on the coast. I wanted to create an animated slide show of all ten seasons but I’ve decided just now that its an impossible task. The main reason being that having to leave out, and not include, so many magical moments would leave me feeling very unhappy and unsatisfied. It would, and never could be, complete in my mind.

Sitting here and running through the directories of photographs from each season, (>150K) which I further broke down into folders by customer visit or project, the volume of material and memories is at times overwhelming. Days and moments, fragments of time that were, and have been of such significance to me that to try and explain the depth and perhaps the meaning is simply beyond me. I had forgotten the sheer number of experiences, the learning that I have been lucky to have shared over those ten years.

I do know this though, it has been ten years of many things for me (good and bad), but when it came to bass fishing on the Wexford coast the good days, the really great days, were created by positive people who made it happen for both of us and also any of the people around us.

You made life easy with a genuine unaffected freedom of spirit and a generosity that is truly unique to the special moments of time spent fishing in good company.

If you can, or want to, remember fondly any of those days or those moments then perhaps you don’t need a slideshow in order to remind you!

Our successes have included both good and tough times, not always of course inclusive of fish. Think for a moment of Wexford, the colour of the sea and the fish, the sky and sand, the rain and the wind, the cold, the approaching wave, the sun and the taste of salt in a warm mist, the frustration, the effort, the patience, the disappointments, the take, the miss, the connection that you identified, once again the fish and the pleasure of good memories.

Thank you all very much – Jim Hendrick