• 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

About

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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Straight up

Words Brendan McCarthy – Urbanflyguides.com Source http://www.thisisfly.com

 Posted on February 29, 2016

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The rush

“A more stable, long term, option for tourism is to preserve these things which we have in Ireland — I guess they’re taken for granted a little bit.”– Claire O’Halloran Skellig Michael Guide

 Posted on February 24, 2016

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Fishing not casting

I first started catching bass on metal, most notably the choice was either the Abu Krill or Abu Toby. The reel I used was a DAM Quick 440N and it was loaded with 12 or 14lbs BS mono. I learned quickly to terminate the line with both a link swivel and a normal swivel. Things improved dramatically when my father bought me a 10’-0” Berkley Buccaneer spinning rod. This longer lighter rod… Read More

 Posted on February 16, 2016

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Gear that works

A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

 Posted on February 9, 2016

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A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

 Posted on February 3, 2016

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Reel

L5W Fly Reel from Danielsson From time to time I will make some personal recommendations in relation to fishing gear I have used that works – this is one of those times – Jim Hendrick This reel has its origin in the LW series which was the first properly sold fly reel according to standards. The design is tested in a pressure chamber for optimum lockout properties against water and dirt. In… Read More

 Posted on January 31, 2016

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Countdown

Can we catch big bass consistently? Is this a question we should be interested in? Is it really that important that we pursue bigger fish? Remember too in a healthy protected population of fish we could all be catching more and bigger fish – simple! There’s a considerable angling challenge of course in pursuing bigger fish in a very much reduced population, which often leads us to conclude that once we catch… Read More

 Posted on January 30, 2016

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To discover

Bass fishing Wexford

We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploration Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time   T.S. Eliot

 Posted on January 30, 2016

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A little about the fish

The fish that live on the Wexford coast are small in number and live in many disparate locations. Access to these populations of fish for the shore angler may begin as early as April and end usually in late October or early November. This is not always strictly the case as so many influences impact on the date range and the arrival or departure of fish. Fully mature bass undertake seasonal migrations from… Read More

 Posted on January 2, 2016

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