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Satoshi
03-22-2010, 06:40 AM
It's been already two weeks since the opening of trout fishing here. Usually I start fishing at the end of March, but everybody's reporting about fishing of the new season, and it was extremely warm Saturday, I couldn't resist anymore.

Peach (plum?) flowers were in full bloom everywhere.
http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo282/fdrwd421/100322upload/510c4771.jpg

I was surprised at changes in the stream. Many good holes were filled with sand. Once deep pools of large stones or rocks are now just very shallow sandy riffles.
http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo282/fdrwd421/100322upload/-1.jpg
It must have rained very heavily in this area since last summer.
Anyway I started to fish.

I hit the river around noon, and I saw some mayfly duns on the water.
http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo282/fdrwd421/100322upload/mayflydun.jpg

I fished dry flies throughout the day, but I had only two responses and I lost both of them.

Next day (yesterday), it was very windy, almost like a storm, so I went fishing again today, which is a national holiday.
This time, I rigged a large bushy dry fly with a #18 midge pupa trailed behinde. I soon caught a fish on the trailing fly.
http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo282/fdrwd421/100322upload/amago-1.jpg

I add some more fish in the mormong. All of them took the midge pupa.
http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo282/fdrwd421/100322upload/amago-3.jpg

Some good holes still remain.
http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo282/fdrwd421/100322upload/-2.jpg

Though many holes became shallow, fish were there.
http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo282/fdrwd421/100322upload/amago-2.jpg

After lunch, two fish rose to the dry fly consecutively, but the fly was too big for them to take. So, I decided to fish with a dry fly only.
I pick out this fly.
http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo282/fdrwd421/100322upload/ausablewolf.jpg
This is Ausable Wolf, beautifully tied, one of the flies that Brk Trt sent me.

Immediately I caught this one.
http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo282/fdrwd421/100322upload/amago-4.jpg

and this one (No, this is just a close-up of the fish above.)
http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo282/fdrwd421/100322upload/amago-5.jpg

and another
http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo282/fdrwd421/100322upload/amago-6.jpg

and another
http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo282/fdrwd421/100322upload/amago-7.jpg

I caught several fish with the fly.
http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo282/fdrwd421/100322upload/-3.jpg

Your fly worked great, Brk Trt :D :D :D !!

Then, around 3 o'clock, response to the fly began fading away as the sun was hiding behinde mountains. I was very content with the result using a fly from Conneticut, and I called it a day. :)

Danny S
03-22-2010, 07:42 AM
Wonderful pictures, Satoshi. I guess that fly proves fish all over the world feed on pretty much the same "prey". Finding the river different than the way you knew it can force some new strategies; glad you had success.

greyfox
03-22-2010, 07:44 AM
Very nice I always enjoy your post, I went out myself yesterday
http://i812.photobucket.com/albums/zz41/greyfox02/dryflies/030.jpg
http://i812.photobucket.com/albums/zz41/greyfox02/034.jpg
http://i812.photobucket.com/albums/zz41/greyfox02/dryflies/026.jpg
http://i812.photobucket.com/albums/zz41/greyfox02/dryflies/018.jpg
http://i812.photobucket.com/albums/zz41/greyfox02/dryflies/017.jpg
http://i812.photobucket.com/albums/zz41/greyfox02/dryflies/024.jpg
Most of them on dries, Black and grizzly bombers.

BrkTrt
03-22-2010, 09:45 AM
Satoshi,

Great report and great photos.

The streams look to be in good shape.

I'm happy the Ausable Wulff worked some magic on those fish.

I'm looking forward to your future outings.


Thanks,


Brk Trt

Satoshi
03-22-2010, 07:21 PM
Danny, thank you for the comment. I'm glad you liked the photos.

greyfox, beautiful stream and fish. The stream looks familiar to me. It's like streams in the central mountain area in Japan.

Brk Trt, I spare bomber for iwana. In fact, I used only one ausable wolf without changing it.

LMarshall
03-22-2010, 09:42 PM
Satoshi & Brk Trt, neat thread(s)! I've really enjoyed the stories and pictures.

Apache Trout
03-22-2010, 10:02 PM
Good stuff guys.
Those are some beautiful fish.
A.T.

edeltrouts
03-23-2010, 05:35 AM
Satoshi,

That's I'm waiting for!!!!
You had a great day and I enjoy your pictures!
This brings me to test the 'internationl fly' in my stream. I'll report about if done.

Waiting for your next trip.

Thomas

Brooktrout
03-23-2010, 09:54 AM
satoshi-
those are beautiful pics and fish. what kind of trout is that?

palewatery
03-23-2010, 06:57 PM
Excellent post ... to both of you ... Great photos.

Just shows good flies work everywhere, great to see both catching species they're not usually used for.

adam
03-23-2010, 10:44 PM
How complimentary Satoshi.

You are a gem.

adam
03-23-2010, 10:45 PM
Grayfox, nicely done.

You have skills.

Satoshi
03-24-2010, 08:48 AM
Brooktrout,

We call the trout "amago."
This fish is the landlocked form of a kind of pacific salmon that lives only on the Asian coast of the Pacific.

Brooktrout
03-24-2010, 05:09 PM
interesting. thx. i love the little orange spots and caudal fin accents. very unique.