• 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 June 12, 2021

Lake

 Posted on June 4, 2021

Leave No Trace Skills

 Posted on April 18, 2021

FOCLÓIR FARRAIGE

Hakai Magazine (@hakaimagazine) Tweeted: Early last year, @ManchanMagan began collecting words from towns along the west coast of Ireland—before they disappeared. The Foclóir Farraige, or Sea Dictionary, is his online database of recordings and definitions. @cm_geib @galway2020 @ForasnaGaeilge https://t.co/RReNnQec9K https://twitter.com/hakaimagazine/status/1372091595525402624?s=20

 Posted on March 17, 2021

Seagull Street sunrise

 Posted on January 11, 2021

Love

Young anglers love new rivers the way they love the rest of their lives. Time does not seem to be of the essence and somewhere in the system is what they are looking for. Thomas McGuane

 Posted on January 2, 2021

Winter Cusp

Bass Fishing Saltwater Fly – Jim Hendrick

 Posted on December 21, 2020

Odds and Ends

Nichol Dance : Who are you? Ollie Slatt : Who are you? Nichol Dance : Nichol Dance. I asked you first. Ollie Slatt : Oh, I’m Ollie Slatt. I mine for subversive coal in the Bull Mountains. Yeah, we have to blast through 20 feet of sandstone to reach the coal vein. We have two spoils banks and they have two striver arrangements. And I am damn proud of it! Nichol Dance : Why are you telling me this? Ollie Slatt : Because of… Read More

 Posted on December 14, 2020

Solstice

 Posted on December 13, 2020

Catch and Release

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