‘Keep warm old man’, the boy said. ‘Remember we are in September.’ ‘The month when the great fish come,’ the old man said. ‘Anyone can be a fisherman in May.’ Ernest Hemingway – The old man and the sea. A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

The key to the slowdown in global warming in recent years could lie in the depths of the Atlantic and Southern Oceans where excess heat is being stored – not the Pacific Ocean as has previously been suggested, according to new research. But the finding suggests that a naturally occurring ocean cycle burying the heat will flip in around 15 years’ time, causing global temperature rises to accelerate again. Go HERE And… Read More

From the UK Angling Trust website The Angling Trust has written to UK Fisheries Minister George Eustice calling on him to introduce a series of conservation measures to protect UK Bass stocks in the face of the latest scientific advice from the International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES), which has recommended a staggering 80 per cent cut in catches in order to protect the future of the species. Failure… Read More

A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

I met Sean Kelly two days before we went to France and we completed the ‘theory’ section of my bass fishing workshop over a bright Sunday morning. I met Sean at lunchtime today and we finished the workshop with a practical ‘on the water’ session. Carrying the theory to the field we both did a little work on both surface and soft lure fishing techniques, reading the water, and location development. Sean… Read More

Any person with a modicum of common sense looks forward to the launch of the policy documents this morning at IFI. In this instance any person interested in the current and future state of Bass fishing should be, to some degree, celebrating the launch of the National Bass Policy. The team members of the policy group have worked hard to achieve, what is in my opinion on the basis of the draft,… Read More

I’m off to France tomorrow with my family for ten days. We will be based in Brittany and its no coincidence that this happens to fall on an optimal tidal week! We are taking the car so there’s a lot of space for some fly fishing gear. I’m looking forward to these few days with high anticipation and an eye for future potential too. Its kind of ironic that an Irish bass… Read More

It is with a large degree of sadness that I have reached a decision to close the guiding services section of my business at the end 2014. This decision was based entirely on a deteriorating population of fish. Without this part of the service I am not prepared to accept people as customers for guided holidays – I can market all I like, but not without the general population of fish in… Read More

It’s been a long time since I rock and rolled,It’s been a long time since I did the Stroll.Ooh, let me get it back, let me get it back,Let me get it back, baby, where I come from.It’s been a long time, been a long time,Been a long lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely time. Yes it has. Led Zeppelin – Rock and Roll A little bit of fishing in your day –… Read More