• On coastal waters flyfishing for bass

    ‘I had my existence. I was there.
    Me in my place and the place in me.’

    Seamus Heaney

  • Uncoding ALL LANDSCAPES

    The timeless waves, bright, sifting, broken glass, Came dazzling around, into the rocks, Came glinting, sifting from the Americas. – S.Heaney

  • From the reef to the kelp forest

    I thought the earth
    remembered me, she
    took me back so tenderly, arranging
    her dark skirts, her pockets
    full of lichens and seeds. I slept
    as never before, a stone
    on the riverbed, – M.Oliver

  • ACTIVELY PATIENT

    It don’t do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing. – T.McGuane

  • TIME INVESTED

    A man is never lost at sea. – E.Hemingway

  • THE LONG REACH OF THE FLY

    The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know. – E.Hemingway

  • With principles of least time

    Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years,
    Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe
    Are brackish with the salt of human tears!
    Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow
    Claspest the limits of mortality! – PB.Shelley

  • WHERE WHEN

    But that is not the question. What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in the immense confusion one thing alone is clear. – S.Beckett

  • From Autumn Transition

    Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising. – R.Carver

  • Through to Summer Threshold

    I know I’m a long way from greatness, but I am beginning to come at it in my own way. I can go through the basic motions pretty well, don’t rely quite as religiously on specific fly patterns as I once did, have worked out ways of compensating for some of my most egregious weaknesses and have come to count heavily on timing because it’s a hell of a lot easier to catch fish when the fish are biting. – J.Grierach

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I believe that saltwater fly-fishing places us deep in the coastal heart of the natural locations we discover whilst pursuing the fish. Catching the fish on the fly is often about these places, where and when, but its also about much more; its about being immersed in the things we sense on the way, there and back. The good moments, the fun, the challenges we face, the learning, and the technique through… Read More

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Approaching

weekend of wind and high tides

 Posted on March 31, 2024

Saline solutions

Because, at the end of the day, It’s all about the experience.

 Posted on March 25, 2024

Cathedral

 Posted on March 22, 2024

Ago

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center. Seamus Heaney

 Posted on March 9, 2024

ESTUARY

At least when it comes to satisfying existential anxiety, value and meaning can come without a commitment to supernatural metaphysics and magic.

 Posted on March 7, 2024

Today

 Posted on February 29, 2024

Inexorable

The sun will set today in Wexford at close to 18:00. It will not set before this time again until October 29th #driftothefish #adlittoral #Thirtyards #Wexford

 Posted on February 23, 2024

Fidelity

Fully mature bass undertake seasonal migrations from summer coastal feeding grounds to winter offshorespawning grounds (Pawson et al. 2007) coinciding with the decrease in coastal water temperature (Pawson & Pickett 1987) that generally occurs in October. Numerous tagging studies have shown that sea bass have a strong fidelity to summer feeding grounds, where they will return year on year (Claridge & Potter 1983, Pawson et al. 1987, Kelley 1988, Pawson, Pickett, et… Read More

 Posted on February 19, 2024

Landscape

 Posted on February 18, 2024

Catch and Release

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