• 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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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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Catch and release

A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

 Posted on February 13, 2015

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LAST CAST

I have had to change my angling life again, not a problem! This change was borne of circumstances beyond my control and beyond the parameters of how I felt I could run my bass angling guiding business. The ‘valid’ number of bass have simply disappeared from the Wexford coast.  Ten years of freedom to build something personally worthwhile were given to me by two people at the centre of my life. This … Read More

 Posted on February 3, 2015

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Leave no trace

A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

 Posted on February 2, 2015

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Freedom

I have had to change my life again. This change was borne of circumstances beyond my control and beyond the parameters of how I felt I could run my bass angling guiding business. Ten years of freedom to build something personally worthwhile were given to me by two people at the centre of my life. This  freedom was beyond value. Now I have time to contemplate the consequences of such a vast… Read More

 Posted on January 10, 2015

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Revive quarterly

A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

 Posted on January 7, 2015

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A companion on another journey

Thirtyards is a personal project. Its still largely a work in progress, a vehicle, a place, a companion. I anticipate it coming slowly into existence over the seasons of 2014 and 2015 and on-wards. Its basis is largely as an accompaniment to a plan for a book. A book based in the bass fishing that I have encountered on the coast of Ireland, both fly and lure. The Thirtyards layout  has just… Read More

 Posted on January 4, 2015

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ask me what I did with my life

A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

 Posted on November 21, 2014

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Catch and Release

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