• 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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This is now

 Posted on July 31, 2016

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By the wind

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‘In the beach flotsam there are often strays from the surface waters of the open ocean, reminders of the fact that most sea creatures are the prisoners of the particular water masses they inhabit. When tongues of their native waters, driven by winds or drawn by varying temperature or salinity patterns, stray into unaccustomed territory, this drifting life is carried involuntarily with them’. The Edge of the Sea – Rachel Carson

 Posted on July 31, 2016

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Spring on a river

 Posted on July 29, 2016

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Customer safety Angling realism Moments of truth Local experiences Sustainability

 Posted on July 22, 2016

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1974

That bass as a species is in urgent need of conservation is accepted by all thinking saltwater sports fishermen. The problem is to convince those in a position to effect conservation measures to take the necessary measures, and what those measures should be. Too often the struggle for realistic conservation degenerates into an argument between ‘us’ and ‘them’, the latter being the commercial interests who should be prohibited from taking bass and… Read More

 Posted on July 4, 2016

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Precautionary approach

 

 Posted on July 4, 2016

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What where

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Samuel Beckett The Wexford coast provides us with a multitude of bass fishing locations and complex environments. From the surf fishing of the east coast beaches and the swirling mysterious sands at Wexford Harbour to the iconic fast water reef systems at Splaugh rock. We can venture past the southern tidal rips of the islands and onwards to the historical… Read More

 Posted on June 26, 2016

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White water

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Imagine breaking white water, turbulence, waves wind and seaweed, slippery rocks and sometimes warm driving rain sea mist and spray. You’re a right handed caster and the wind is blowing from the south west – force four touching five occasionally, you’re on a southerly facing shore with a rising tide! Interesting times for the saltwater fly fisher! The presentations described in this post are made from rocky platforms that allowed me to… Read More

 Posted on June 16, 2016

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Developing leaders

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Improving your saltwater fly leaders for coastal fishing – PII Before realising the potential behind constructing your own saltwater leaders learn to tie and become familiar and confident with the following excellent knots. Tie them securley across different diameters of mono filament and fluorocarbon Perfection loop Bloodknot Non slip loop knot Lefty Kreh uses a simple rule of thumb for constructing saltwater leaders, its one I use for bass fishing (with some… Read More

 Posted on June 14, 2016

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