• 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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Tapâm – a flyfishing journey from tapamthemovie on Vimeo. A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

 Posted on January 26, 2012

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Bass Fishing Wexford

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

 Posted on January 26, 2012

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Fishinnnn with Williammm, again?

Footprints and Fins and Fotos by Fone ‘Come on’ he says, ‘theres loadsa of ‘em here again at the moment, on softs and bait’ I’m tempted to take out the Loomis the Clousers and the T11 and go and cast a line and get cold and wet and maybe…….. A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

 Posted on January 24, 2012

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Tweet from @northwexford

@northwexford: The first Humpback Whale of the season is spotted off Hook Head this morning… http://fb.me/JwZMCHF7 Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

 Posted on January 23, 2012

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Boring, predictable and transparent

NEVER confuse some forums with reality A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

 Posted on January 22, 2012

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The possibility of opportunity

From December through to late April is often avoided by many saltwater flyfishers and in fact its not until the warmer months of May and June that many will begin their fishing at all. I can understand this and there have been several points in time when I felt this way too but through some perserverance and with a little hard work there are some good tactics that can greatly increase your… Read More

 Posted on January 21, 2012

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For Bob – Happy birthday

Not long now guy A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

 Posted on January 19, 2012

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Availability 2012 update

I have just updated the availability for 2012. With 80 days reserved at this time and less than 10 optimum days left to fill for 2012 it does a number of things for me. It alleviates some of the stress involved in ‘wondering’, but it also confirms the ‘new’ interest in saltwater fly and lure fishing for bass is continuing and indeed strengthening. Within those odd 71 days of bookings are recurring… Read More

 Posted on January 16, 2012

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A job well done

Well done to the people involved in this operation – the photograph is significant, both in the relevance of the capture and the portrayal of the scale and regularity of the illegal fishing in the area. This has to be good for the country, anglers and the people involved in valid tourism and angling businesses – long may it continue. Please forward and promote this link HERE A little bit of fishing in… Read More

 Posted on January 13, 2012

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