• 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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Leave no trace, a place in saltwater guiding?

Leave no trace //www.scribd.com/embeds/182418171/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true I have spent a long time learning how to catch fish, I have also invested time in trying to return them as effectively as possible, at times I know this is not always the case but its a part of the daily process of guiding to try to ensure good fish ‘returns’. Currently I’m looking even further at how I might improve other aspects and impacts the business… Read More

 Posted on November 7, 2013

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…loving it more than anybody else…

A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

 Posted on November 1, 2013

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The mogues

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 Posted on October 27, 2013

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More silvery things to think about!

                Where do you stop? When do you start to realise that what’s really obvious to you, often based on simple instinct, is generally true? The fly in the wave just slowly tracking and moving – slowly then stopped! A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

 Posted on October 11, 2013

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Man

//player.vimeo.com/video/56093731 MAN from Steve Cutts on Vimeo. A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

 Posted on October 3, 2013

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Thanks a million Julien

Page 66-74 on the link below Nine pages of editorial in any magazine is beyond compare. In a magazine of the status held by Voyages de Peches its a major coup for Irish angling. Julien La Journade a longtime champion of Irish fishing, accompanied by fly and lure fishermen Bob Hurley and Ronan Collins, made a fantastic week of fishing and memories on the southern coasts of Ireland during August. This is… Read More

 Posted on October 1, 2013

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End of 2013 closing in but very busy for 2014!

My guided ‘season’ hasn’t much longer to run at this stage, and in fact many days have been ‘put back’ and left open until 2014, but bass fishing possibilities for the interested angler can remain good up to Christmas time and who knows what may happen? I have been very busy over the past year and even busier since the beginning of September now that the final year of my tourism development… Read More

 Posted on September 29, 2013

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South East September–saltwater fly fishing Ireland

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 Posted on September 23, 2013

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Full moon fever

A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

 Posted on September 19, 2013

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