Bass Fishing Wexford A Season Revisited

A season remembered in video shorts

• 2012 revisited P.I
• 2012 revisited P.II
• 2012 revisited P.III
• 2012 revisited P.IV
• 2012 revisited P.V
• 2012 revisited P.VI
• 2012 revisited P.VII
• 2012 revisited P.VIII
• 2012 revisited P.IX
• 2012 revisited P.X
• 2012 revisited P.XI

Click on any of the links above to visit some of our experiences during 2012.

I hope this can give you some insight and feeling of the fishing to be found on the south east of Ireland

Jim

Catalytic

		Clive Gammon  1929-2012 VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL

I could never have known then what was going to happen. It was the start of it I guess, the Summer and Autumn of 2003. Three days in a car with Terry Thomas and Clive Gammon, bass fishing and driving around the southern coasts of Wexford, trying to capture the essence of something. For me it was listening to the stories of Wexford, the angling past remembered by Clive.

I remember standing at the coombe, at the race, casting half mackerel twenty yards into the cauldron, holding our bass rods into a late October evening. He said he had seen something similar somewhere in the US, where I cant remember, I felt very naive, very young.

We fished with John Devereaux on board Celtic Lady – free lining live sandeel over a reef, he smiled and held a fish and told me he had felt the sandeel panic as the bass approached to eat!

Catalysts.

Birthday, solstice, end of the world ! Thank goodness its fly day!

'There comes a time in all of our lives when we let ourselves dream about living life on our own terms. When we wrestle with the decision to take a step into traffic, follow our passions and live deliberately ­‐ or simply let another day, and daydream, pass. In the end, it doesn't matter if we make the decision of our own accord, or life makes it for us. It’s where our heart and soul are that matter. For some, the result is a closer alignment between vocation and avocation, for some it’s a re-prioritisation of what’s important in life, for some it’s the very real difference between life and death.'

One wonders exactly what decisions might be made, what things might be done, what choices might be struggled with, if through angling was how you lived your life?

line stripped, reel screamed

It wasn't perfect but it was good enough, ‘it’s gunna happen’ I whispered. He kept looking at the fly, stripping, focused, and still crouched. Only moments left, half a meter, and then suddenly there was that unique sound of a big fish hitting a surface fly, an explosion of white water. A sudden moment of fear, of shock and surprise, line stripped reel screamed and then there was silence. I heard a tern high overhead.

The fish wasn’t on.

see and read more HERE

The Wexford Wolf

The cover of one of Germanys best selling angling magazines features Wexford bass fishing this month – a six page feature that can only do good for angling in Ireland in many ways.

Thanks to Holger, Holger and Markus.

SWFFI

I have thought about this many times and I guess have forgotten about it equally as often. I am interested in creating a group for people who might like to come together in the interests of saltwater fly fishing, nothing more serious than fun mind!

If you would like to be a part of, or are interested in, this possibility then please drop me a mail @ jimhendrick@live.ie

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