• 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

Find more here
SALTWATER FLY WORKSHOPS 2024

Learn to Saltwater Flyfish for Bass

THE ARCHIVE 2003-2015 A Guide
bass fishing Jim Hendrick

Guided Bass Fishing a history - Jim Hendrick

Upcoming Events

No upcoming events

Award Winning Service
Bass fishing in Ireland Jim Hendrick
Bass fishing Jim Hendrick
Fly Casting & Fly Fishing Resource

Opera

 Posted on October 27, 2024

Beast

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand WB Yeats The second coming

 Posted on October 25, 2024

Experience

 Posted on October 24, 2024

Elemental

I was looking for the will of the wild… The only thing I had to hold on to was the knife-sharp necessity to trust to the elements my elemental self. I wanted to live at the edge of the imperative, in the tender fury of the reckless moment, for in this brief and pointillist life, bright-dark and electric, I could do nothing else. The human spirit has a primal allegiance to wildness, to really… Read More

 Posted on October 20, 2024

Artist

 Posted on October 12, 2024

Maintenance

“The primary use of ‘misinformation’ is not to change the beliefs of other people at all. Instead, the vast majority of misinformation is offered as a service for people to maintain their beliefs in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.” Micheal Caulfield.

 Posted on October 11, 2024

Drake Magazine

“I never thought I’d become a fishing writer,” John Gierach told me during an interview in 2006. I cannot imagine this sport—or this world—had he not. John died yesterday morning of a heart attack. I have many thoughts, but neither the will nor the inclination to share them right now. There’ll be time for that. But felt you all deserved to know. He represented the very best of what flyfishing is. R.I.P…. Read More

 Posted on October 4, 2024

Hold Fast!!

Approching weather system that may develop, models busy.

 Posted on October 2, 2024

Stopping

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DAWNyWKJPGX/?igsh=MXR5NHYyajV6Ynlteg==

 Posted on October 1, 2024

Catch and Release

THIRTYARDS

Create a website or blog at WordPress.com