• 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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Moving shortly, some aspects!

PROBASSFISHER will move shortly to http://www.jimhendrick.com. This site (probassfisher) will remain in existence as is but all new posts will be completed on THIRTYARDS. I want to say thank you for your visits here over the past seven years and I hope it has been as pleasant for you as it has been for me. Of course I would like to think you can always visit the fishing on THIRTYARDS in the… Read More

 Posted on May 1, 2014

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Guiding–distilled for fun!

After ten years of working as a bass fishing guide blogging and writing about some of those experiences on this site I have developed a desire to move on from the love of trying to perfect the actual guiding process. This has, over the years, become a slight obsession, and after any number of experiences and time spent on qualifications, personal development, indeed years of hard work, I have it where I… Read More

 Posted on April 23, 2014

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Saltwater Fly Fishing Primer

Its with a little excitement, apprehension and all the things associated with doing something new that I feel when I look forward to next week. On April 28th we will gather at Bella Vista Hotel in Cobh Co.Cork with eight people to partake in a three-day saltwater fly fishing primer, with an emphasis placed on Irish bass fishing The workshops are broken over the three days to allow each participant unique and… Read More

 Posted on April 20, 2014

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Saltwater fishing on the fly for you?

A spirit of adventure, an angling challenge whilst not in any way new but always considerable

 Posted on April 19, 2014

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The saltwater fly fishing experience

A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

 Posted on April 18, 2014

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So much more than fish

A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

 Posted on April 10, 2014

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Science and angling

http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1 A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

 Posted on April 4, 2014

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Predictable fishing?

At the sitting of the Dungarvan District Court on Wednesday 26th March 2014, Mr. Arthur Daly, Dungarvan, County Waterford was prosecuted by Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) for illegal netting of salmon on the river Colligan, Dungarvan. Mr. Daly pleaded guilty to breaches of Sections 94(1), 96(1) and 97(2) of the 1959 Act as amended. Mr. Jason Moran, Fisheries Officer with IFI, told Judge Terrance Finn that while on a routine patrol at… Read More

 Posted on March 29, 2014

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How a dishwasher helped me see the invisible

Our dishwasher stopped working last Tuesday. We have, since then, re-learned the forgotten, and in some cases i.e. Dan and Ruth learned new, the skills of washing and drying up,under duress might I add. As is the way in our house things get put on the long finger so the dishwasher is in the backyard just outside the back door, still! There is a film of water trapped on top of the… Read More

 Posted on March 22, 2014

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