• 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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Heritage lost

IRISH GOVERNMENT SAY THEY WILL NOT RESCIND THE LICENCE ISSUED FOR HARVESTING NATIVE KELP IN BANTRY. Deirdre Fitzgerald Bantry, Ireland 9 MAY 2017 — This evening our Government and FG Minister Simon Coveney, Dept of Housing said they will NOT rescind the licence issued BioAtlantis to harvest 1860 acres of native kelp in Bantry Bay. They have ignored the 4,000 people who signed the petition, they have ignored the concerns of people whose… Read More

 Posted on May 12, 2017

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Constants

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Every year I return to the same places where I have always fished for bass. I find these places changed in different ways since I have last fished there, or ever fished there. The same is different and is new again. For a long while there have been a few constants, the wind, the tide, the fish and of course the Danielsson.

 Posted on May 11, 2017

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Searching

Jim Hendrick Thirtyards

 Posted on April 25, 2017

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Primordial

 Posted on April 18, 2017

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Discovery

There are other ways to fish in the ocean than with standard gear… it is always good to think outside of the box that marketing presents. It doesn’t ever know how to lead It follows and when it leads it likes to control opinion sales that is business but it is not fishing. Fish do not read magazines or blogs. Fishing is discovery not formula Ken Abrames

 Posted on April 11, 2017

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Fidelity Risk

Important research work carried out by Thomas K. Doyle, Damien Haberlin, Jim Clohessy, Ashley Bennison, Mark Jessopp. ‘For many marine migratory fish, comparatively little is known about the movement of individuals rather than the population. Yet, such individual-based movement data is vitally important to understand variability in migratory strategies and fidelity to foraging locations. A case in point is the economically important European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.) that inhabits coastal waters during the summer months… Read More

 Posted on April 5, 2017

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on the rocks

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Keep in mind that good bites rarely last through an entire tide. You may show up and do nothing for two hours and assume you picked a bad night. You may have picked a great one but you’re not in the right tide window yet, or you missed it. On the quarter moons, when current speeds are the weakest of the month, its not uncommon for the best bite to occur in… Read More

 Posted on March 26, 2017

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Single wing flatwing tie

Joe Cordiero ties a Single-Wing Flatwing pattern that’s a perfect prey imitation. See him tie a multi feather version here. Fly Tying is not just a hobby for this man it is a passion. Joe Cordeiro has been tying flies for over 25 years. The past 10 years focusing on teaching, presenting at shows and marketing salt water flies. Joe has been fishing his entire life growing up near Cape Cod. Fly-fishing… Read More

 Posted on March 19, 2017

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Cant wait to tell you all..

She came from Providence, the one in Rhode Island Where the old world shadows hang heavy in the air She packed her hopes and dreams like a refugee, Just as her father came across the sea She heard about a place people were smilin’, They spoke about the red man’s way, how they loved the land And they came from everywhere to the Great Divide Seeking a place to stand or a… Read More

 Posted on March 12, 2017

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