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. :)
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. :)