• 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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I am sorry about the confusion that exists at the moment in relation to PROBASSFISHER. For the past 10 years or so I have owned the domain ‘www.probassfisher.com’ however through a process which I still dont understand this is no longer my property. The current owner of http://www.probassfisher.com has scraped and replicated the content off my site an posted a WordPress blog under this domain name. As a result of this strange… Read More

 Posted on July 13, 2014

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Awareness in isolation and solitude

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Bassfishing Saltwater Fly – Jim Hendrick

 Posted on July 12, 2014

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New existence

As between clear blue and cloud,.. I had my existence. I was there. Me in place and the place in me. Seamus Heaney A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

 Posted on June 20, 2014

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To fish

Bass fishing Wexford

I know that much of my own pleasure in fishing is in the flowing ease of thought that comes upon me as I fish. This is compounded of many things; of companionship or solitude, of a rivers moods and changes, a birds flight, a fish’s leap, a lakes calm or stir. It grows from wind and weather and season, from theories built and tried, from endless curiosity and the constant expectancy that… Read More

 Posted on June 11, 2014

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Thanks

I have been lucky over the past few months to have fished in the company of Paul Moinester from the US. Its always interesting to understand and watch other peoples perspectives of the fishing that we have here in Ireland. Beyond that of course is a whole different social dynamic and interaction. Paul laid down some very nice words over the past few weeks about Irish fishing from trout to pike, attempted… Read More

 Posted on June 7, 2014

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High life in Los Angeles, time

I was on my way seatrout fishing with two friends of my father. We were headed down towards ‘The Coombe’ with ABU Krills and Tobies and Lying Eyes was playing on Micks tape deck in the car. The first time I had ever really heard the Eagles. I was 14, it was June 1978 . It was The Greatest Hits, it was Hotel California. It was magic. Now at 50, 36 years… Read More

 Posted on June 6, 2014

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Jack Gartsides–Gurgler

//player.vimeo.com/video/28216995?portrait=0&color=ffffff A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

 Posted on June 4, 2014

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Being without finish

21st July – 30th August 2014 – Anne Hendrick, Wexford Arts Centre. At its loftiest the work in Anne Hendricks exhibition entitled Being Without Finish explores the absurdity of life and embodies the search for the poetic and collective meaning through ritual or exploration and ‘psychological essentialism’, which describes the belief that some objects are often defined by a so-called unique essence. This elusive ‘essence’ can only exist beyond our ability to… Read More

 Posted on June 3, 2014

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Orvis news–Irish bass fishing

A nice photo essay on the Orvis  US Website  by Paul Moinester – click the top photo to link A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

 Posted on May 30, 2014

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Catch and Release

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