• 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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Bass fishing Ireland

A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

 Posted on November 5, 2014

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The chance

Bass fishing Jim Hendrick

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Bassfishing Saltwater Fly – Jim Hendrick

 Posted on October 27, 2014

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Stop

Probassfisher has served its purpose for me over the past seven years, its now slowly coming to an end in its current form. Looking back over those seven years and the content contained here I feel some of it is good and some of it not so good, but it is what it is at this time and I’m happy to leave it here. I wont be posting to this site from… Read More

 Posted on October 19, 2014

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JEST by Anne Hendrick will open at Talbot Gallery and Studios on Thursday 16th October 18.00-20.00, 2014 and runs until Saturday 8th November 2014. Much of the inspiration for the work in Jest comes from filmic sources and iconic American imagery. This use of dramatic colour to enhance the viewer’s experience of the work is both a coy nod to melodrama and a deliberate manipulation of the visual context of a body… Read More

 Posted on October 16, 2014

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What it really means –

A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

 Posted on October 16, 2014

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Sport fisherman

<img style="margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline; float: left" alt="Author Ernest Hemingway wrote Old Man and the Sea about deep sea fishing off the coast of Cuba.” align=”left” src=”http://images.smh.com.au/2014/09/09/5743843/Article%20Lead%20-%20narrow6112766110e6ee1410264610835.jpg-300×0.jpg&#8221; width=”234″ height=”278″> One of the earliest and most prolific sport fishermen in the Florida Straits, Hemingway may inadvertently have created an unparalleled scientific resource as he prowled some of the world’s richest fishing grounds. Hemingway assembled thousands of books, photographs and journals,… Read More

 Posted on October 15, 2014

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Adaptation, flexibility and knowledge in bass guiding services

I woke this morning early and lay awake remembering and thinking about the fishing we had last week. There were days during the week when not only was the fishing beyond belief but so too the circumstances and the environment. I left Dublin airport last Saturday morning, the 4th of October, with David and Julien as the crew, I had devised a plan that saw me guiding the guys around and through… Read More

 Posted on October 12, 2014

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Revive fly fishing journal–Ireland, a photo essay

Native and Wild – fly fishing across Ireland, an American perspective A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

 Posted on September 30, 2014

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Seabass Management–A new future?

Seabass Mgment NGO Perspective //www.scribd.com/embeds/240582499/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

 Posted on September 22, 2014

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Catch and Release

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