THIRTYARDS
Bass Fishing. At the pace of the saltwater flyfishing coast. Wexford, Ireland - est 2003.
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
SALTWATER FLY WORKSHOPS 2024
Learn to Saltwater Flyfish for Bass
THE ARCHIVE 2003-2015 A Guide
Guided Bass Fishing a history - Jim Hendrick
Award Winning Service
I’m guessing that angling for bass has always been such a special experience for me that all I want now is to preserve that personal sense of being both challenged and excited whenever I fish for them. Saltwater fly fishing for bass with the current methods I use is difficult. I don’t catch many fish, I don’t fish as frequently, I don’t cover much ground but I do know this, no other… Read More
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“Happy the man…with a natural gift for practicing the right one [art] from the start– poetry, say, or fishing; whose nights are dreamless; whose deep-sunk panoramas rise and pass like daylight through the rod’s eye or the nib’s eye.” Seamus Heaney, The Haw Lantern
“In September the cooking apples abroad on the trees beside the haggard would be bursting with ripeness and only barely clinging to the branch. Some would have turned to rot on the tree; more would have fallen to the earth – the barest puff of a breeze would dislodge a big fat cooking apple in September. You had to be quick to get to the windfalls before the scavenging insects.You’d pick one… Read More
Directors Note. “I’m not sure what it is with Ireland. I feel more at home here than any place else. There’s no Irish blood, no history, no good reason for it, but that’s the way it is and how it always has been. Perhaps it’s better to be simply grateful rather than question these things. It was a river that first brought me here. I came to catch a fish, but it… Read More
EAGLE – There she is Isaac. Useless Island. There seems to be a bit of an auld fog comin’ down around her. ISAAC – Yeah, its queer spooky lookin’, ain’t it? EAGLE – Not at all. (slight pause) ISAAC – I don’t think me Ma is exactly over the moon about all of this Da, is she? EAGLE – No, not exactly. Ah shes’s a bit nervous about it. Yeh… Read More
A strange silence is evident. Last Thursday evening I bass fished in a southerly blow. Wet, windy, the waves broke and hissed and the rain fell heavily. Just on the edge of a system. In a two hour period I landed and returned two very nice fish. I was extremely lucky and delighted too. The previous evening I had also fished with a new range of flies from Andy Elliot. Whilst I… Read More
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