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Welcome to the wanderings and ramblings of Baitdigger where I try to share experiences and photographs of my continuing sea angling journey around the coastline of County Clare and South Wales
From tope and huss on the heavy gear in the North of the county, rays from the Shannon, conger and wrasse from the rocks and more recently lure fishing from the much under-rated and unexplored Clare coastline. Read my weekly whines about the lack of mackerel and the twelve months of mild winter that make up Ireland’s weather. Read updates bemoaning crowded beaches, uncontrolled children and unruly dogs in South Wales and my search for fish in one of Britain’s truly stunning coastlines.
Born in England I moved to Ireland’s West Coast to take care of my parents and fell in love with the wildness of the Burren and it’s miles of unspoilt coastline.
I started fishing with my father over fifty years ago but I am a firm believer that everyone has something to teach me especially in the steep learning curve of modern lure fishing for bass.My camera has become an essential part of my fishing gear and I am just has happy taking snaps as catching fish. It started with a panasonic lumix dmc, which was covered in mackerel scales and wrapped in a tea towel, it has gone through several Nikon regenerations and I am currently using a D750 but it is still covered in fish scales and wrapped in a teatowel
All opinions are my own arising from what has or hasn’t worked for me. Any criticism of tackle brands are just as I find them and I leave you to decide for yourselves what suits your needs and as ever I value comments both positive and negative.
And finally many of my posts may be tinged with a touch of tongue in cheek so please accept them in the spirit they were written.
Neil
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Day 77….. and today everyone is offended
What is wrong with the world ? One bunch of racists screaming at another bunch of racists. Ethnic minorities thinking they are the only minority and excluding the other minorities from their battle slogans. Cries to pull down landmark statues … Continue reading
Day 45….
Early January this year myself and most of the people I work with suffered from severe flue like symptoms, you know, the ones they are saying we should consider as being Covid-19 symptoms? This flu swept through the office and … Continue reading
Day 44…the menace of Corvids, a murder of crows?
Chris Packham this one is for you… In lockdown our physical world has become insulated and smaller. I have taken refuge and shelter in the garden. Feeding birds, planting bee friendly plants and leaving patches of dandelion daisy, green alkanet, … Continue reading
Day 26… Better than X-Box ?
Foucault refers to social discourse as ‘ways of constituting knowledge, together with the social practices, forms of subjectivity and power relations which inhere in such knowledges and relations between them. Discourses are more than ways of thinking and producing meaning. … Continue reading
Day 20….. How are you coping?
With first and second breakfast completed there is only early lunch left to punctuate the morning. Neither of the meals were memorable and the girl child said I needed to up my game for early lunch as I have taught … Continue reading
Day 16: More Pollacks
The weather remains amazing. For the third night in a row I have cooked on the barbecue in the back garden. My kids have consumed so much burnt flesh that they think their mother has started cooking the evening meal.But … Continue reading
Day 10 the second Sunday…
Ten days in and already I have to look at the previous posts to see what images I have already posted so I do not repeat myself. Whilst many of the images I have taken have been done on self … Continue reading
Day six…Darwin or God?
Day six of the corovirus lockdown and I look at bass and the meaning of life Continue reading
An deireadh………..the end
Listen closely for I have a tale to tell….. Once upon a time in a land not too far away there lived in the hamlet of Cardiff a humble carpenter with his wife and children. Now that carpenter was a … Continue reading
Seven days…..
The weather has turned against me now as well as the clock. Wind forecast said South East but it was more Westerly. When I arrive on the mark all I could see was conspiratorial winks from the lighthouse on the … Continue reading
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