• 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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 Posted on September 12, 2022

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

 Posted on September 4, 2022

A summers day

Who made the world?Who made the swan, and the black bear?Who made the grasshopper?This grasshopper, I mean-the one who has flung herself out of the grass,the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.Now she snaps her wings open, and… Read More

 Posted on September 2, 2022

Crabby

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 Posted on September 1, 2022

Near now,

 Posted on August 30, 2022

Danger

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 Posted on August 27, 2022

Blackberries

Off the road in the hacked tanglesblackberries big as thumbs hang shiningin the shade. And a creek nearby: a darkspit through we stones. And a pool like a stonesink if you knowwhere to climb for it amongthe hillside ferns, where the thrushnaps in her nest of sticks and loam. I come down from the Red Rock, lips streakedblack, fingers purple, throat cool, shirtfull of fernfingers, head full of windywhistling. It takes all… Read More

 Posted on August 21, 2022

The challenge

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 Posted on August 18, 2022

All things

All things passA sunrise does not last all morningAll things passA cloudburst does not last all dayAll things passNor a sunset all nightAll things passWhat always changes? Earth…sky…thunder…mountain…water…wind…fire…lake… These changeAnd if these do not last Do man’s visions last?Do man’s illusions? Take things as they come All things pass All things Pass Lao Tzu (from translations adapted by Timothy Leary [1920-1996])

 Posted on August 13, 2022

Catch and Release

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