• 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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A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

 Posted on November 9, 2012

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The story that nobody talks about

  Thinking back now to Friday, working with Ear To the Ground, I cant help but wish I had said more better, or worse still, said, what I now think I have left out! Its not an easy task to follow after the producer issues you with instructions – ‘’Just look at Helen Jim and not at the camera”. Looking at Helen was the easy part, connecting my mouth to my brain… Read More

 Posted on November 4, 2012

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Ear to the ground go bass fishing in Wexford

Big thanks to the crew for making it easy today VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

 Posted on November 2, 2012

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A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

 Posted on October 26, 2012

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A happy but very concerned bass fishing guide

I guess it’s that time of year for me, all customers have finished for season 2012 and I have a little freedom and time to fish for myself! Thoughts on a season. I wish. Lately it’s been pretty hectic for many reasons and at times I have felt, a lot like many other people in this country I’m sure, that I am doing too much maybe. At the moment this is a… Read More

 Posted on October 22, 2012

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Max the grinder and Thomas the legend – a predator week!

Its the end of another remarkable Irish bass angling adventure. During the last few days the experiences these guys have been lucky enough to have had, have been remarkable. Fish over 80cms and others > 75 over long hard days with many fishless silent comfortable hours in wonderful environments, but the result – little in quantity but generally great in quality. Max landed another fine sample yesterday – @ 77cms    … Read More

 Posted on October 20, 2012

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Max takes his 78cm’s today – Moby Dick 161st Anniversary

Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off… Read More

 Posted on October 18, 2012

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Thomas and his big fish habit–again!

Thomas has a habit of catching nice Autumn fish in Wexford – a returning customer who travelled last year from Holland with his friend Max – they took some nice fish almost to the day – see this post from October 2011 – Todays second fish came in at 80 cm’s We have an interesting week ahead and hope to see a few more like this – Max is next in line… Read More

 Posted on October 16, 2012

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Get well soon Johnny Rix

See you in sunny 2013 – lucky for some! A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

 Posted on October 14, 2012

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