• 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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Sea trout fishing in Denmark

Do you have the guidebook? Sea Trout Fyn, 25 years in the service of sea trout have written an essential buddy to accompany you along the coastline of Fyn, Ærø and Langeland. Fyn and the isles offer kilometre upon kilometre of coast just made for sea trout and sea trout anglers. More than 1,100 kilometres of coastline awaits, and there is scarcely a single metre of it where, at some point, a… Read More

 Posted on July 6, 2015

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ICONIC – fish, ecotourism

Bass fishing in ireland

Protecting South America’s Iconic Golden Dorado Fish Supporting regional ecotourism and sustainable fishing May 26, 2015 – Source University Mass AMHERST, Mass. – A new study launched this month by University of Massachusetts Amherst fisheries biologist Andy J. Danylchuk, in collaboration with Argentina’s Ministry of Environment and regional partners including Juramento Fly Fishing, Tigres del Rio, Fish Simply, and Patagonia Inc., is the first to assess the impact of catch-and-release fishing and… Read More

 Posted on June 3, 2015

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Familiar

Bass fishing in Wexford

Few movements of wild creatures run to an exact timetable, year in, year out, and few are without their aberrant individuals; and few of us know our own familiar waters quite so well as we think we do. Roderick L. Haig-Brown – Fishermans Fall I’ve spent much of May indoors so I’m missing a valuable perspective, I don’t really know ‘what’ it feels like out there. Predominantly Northwesterlies seem to very much… Read More

 Posted on May 27, 2015

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La peche a la mouche du bar

La pêche à la mouche du bar, du bord, est certainement l’approche la plus exigeante qui soit, la plus gratifiante aussi. Jim Hendrick, un spécialiste hors-pair dans ce domaine, revient sur les connaissances et les techniques de base qu’il convient de maîtriser afin de tirer son épingle du jeu. Simplicité, observation, discrétion… et si c’était aussi simple que ça ? Its always great to see an article in an International magazine featuring… Read More

 Posted on May 24, 2015

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A season begins shortly

There is a deep satisfaction in acquiring knowledge of a place and the things that live there. You become familiar with the stones that lie along the inner estuary shore and the way they have been laid in patterns by forces, forces and actions that you can’t figure, forces over time that must have shaped those patterns whilst the world went, simply, by. You become reluctant to walk on those stones to… Read More

 Posted on May 3, 2015

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Island

Fly fishing for bass in clear water. Its not always easy and in fact good water clarity and high visibility is at times damned difficult especially when its mid summer sun Decrease fly size Decrease fly ‘visibility’, fish a more translucent fly Go to a brighter fly, I link pink and white or chartreuse and grey Decrease leader diameter Increase leader length Stay low Be prepared to ‘strip into the leader’, learn… Read More

 Posted on April 24, 2015

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and fish

“..and another said she went mad in the autumns, as she had no house and it was warm in the Asylum, and if she didn’t do a fair job of running mad she would freeze to death; but then in the spring she would become sane again because it was good weather and she could go off and tramp in the woods and fish, and as she was part Red Indian she… Read More

 Posted on April 8, 2015

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The start

I’m getting ready for some early season bass fishing on the fly. It’s still very early for the Wexford coast but it’s always the same at this time of year, you just want to get out there and the seatrout mullet and bass are all running the estuaries more and more regularly now as the days lengthen towards early Spring. Last weekend William and I saw lots of moving fish and the… Read More

 Posted on March 22, 2015

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Sharing

Bass fishing on the Fly The real secret that lies within saltwater fly-fishing is that it provides you with many valid excuses to find yourself challenged by your angling method in beautiful places out on the coast. Whilst out there, on the coast, you can use those challenges to create angling experiences and perhaps from time to time build unforgettable memories that will last you a lifetime. Over time you will also find… Read More

 Posted on February 21, 2015

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