A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

  Fishing remains extremely difficult in ideal conditions, some fish about but generally very patchy. Weather windows, exact timings and presentations with ‘focused’ fishing in otherwise productive locations leading to some results. A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

October Bass Festival at the Hook Peninsula – Having been invited, I attended a meeting this morning in Fethard as part of a working group involved in creating a Bass Angling Festival on the Hook Peninsula. Many aspects for the proposed development of the Festival were discussed. I emphasised my usual cautionary approach to ‘development’ of the fishery, and having built a small business that utilises the reasons why many people want… Read More

Dark and silent late last night,I think I might have heard the highway calling …Geese in flight and dogs that biteAnd signs that might be omens say I’m going, I’m goingI’m gone to Carolina in my mind. – James Taylor I guess after much deliberation and debate and toing and froing and confusion the decision is made and taking delivery early/mid autumn. A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

  Fishing at 2 am last night I found myself not for the first time looking at the stars.   Night fishing always makes me more contemplative. Every splash and wave, every creak of the cast is louder and clearer and at times seemingly closer. The voices of the shore blend into a rhythm of sound and sensation that forces me to focus on the task at hand. Out of that comes… Read More

A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

‘..its variety of forms in loughs and bays and gulfs and bights and guts and lagoons and atolls and archipelagos and sounds and fjords and minches and tidal estuaries and arms of sea: its solidity in glaciers, icebergs, icefloes: its docility in working hydraulic millwheels, turbines, dynamos, electric power stations, bleachworks, tanneries, scutchmills: its utility in canals, rivers, if navigable, floating and graving docks: its potentiality derivable from harnessed tides or watercourses… Read More

I met a man once, fished with him even, he wrote of good places! The bass fishing world has changed. A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it’s sinking racing around to come up behind you again. Pink Floyd – Time Today is June 14 2012. In two days time my tenth season for bass guiding begins on this coast, I will be guiding Jean Yves, a long-term customer and now a good friend. This is Jean Yves’ fourth year of bass fishing on the Southern… Read More