• 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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“I’m sorry we dont have any GPS units in stock” said the assistant.A neutrino goes into a chandlery and asks for a GPS unit A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

 Posted on February 23, 2012

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Sea trouts and the flies

Sunday February 19th Landing Gear Rod: G-Loomis crosscurrent #7 – Hardy Zane #8 Line: Guideline Coastal #7 floating and #8 Intermediate Reel: Danielsson LW 6/9 Leader: Modified Rio tapered trout and Airflo polyleaders intermediate Fly: Small flatwing – lavender and grey A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

 Posted on February 22, 2012

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Some of the South and Eastern fishing possibilities

http://flixtime.com/static/flowplayer/flowplayer.commercial.swf A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

 Posted on February 21, 2012

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sea trout in the salt

 Posted on February 12, 2012

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Slowly but surely

Inland Fisheries Ireland Convictions and fines for two fishermen who used nets to catch Bass. Yesterday at Midleton District Court 2 fishermen were found guilty of using nets to catch Bass. IFI Fisheries Officers observed the nets on the evening of 11 July 2011 and in the early hours of the next day apprehended the two men. In evidence the Fisheries Officers stated that following a report they observed a net fixed… Read More

 Posted on February 11, 2012

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Meeeces to peeeeces

Drake Flyfishing Video Awards Winning Clip from On the Fly on Vimeo. A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

 Posted on February 10, 2012

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About the fish

Although bass are widespread along the western seaboard of Europe ((Wheeler), 1969)they are recognised to be a species of warmer waters, typically a southern European, Northern African fish. The Wexford fishery is situated in the zone of greatest abundance of bass on the east Irish coast and thus is as close as possible to the supposed centre for the species in the Celtic Sea (Williams, 1974) From – (Fahy, 1981) See More here A… Read More

 Posted on February 6, 2012

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those days, not far away…..

AGAINST THE TIDE from Matt Dunkinson Photography on Vimeo. A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

 Posted on February 3, 2012

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the right place at the right time

There’s something about fly fishing in the sea, maybe its something about fly fishing or maybe its just plain bass fishing. Combining fly fishing with the pursuit of bass has done it for me. Picking up a fly rod and a few flies and going to the sea to try to catch them, well the fish already have the advantage before I even get out the door. That’s what I like about… Read More

 Posted on February 2, 2012

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