Satoshi
09-27-2011, 07:24 AM
On the next day, the other guest of the Kubota Lodge, Mr. Kubota, and I went fishing together, because there were only 2 guests, including myself, in the Lodge. The other guest was a nice person and he was a friend of a person whom I had fished with when I stayed at the lodge before.
The weather front that caused flood water the day before still remained and most of the streams around the lodge were blown out. We drove along a freeway for 2 hours to look for a fishable water.
http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo282/fdrwd421/1109%20last%20trip/d3.jpg
When we got to the stream, it wasn’t raining and the water level seemed very much normal. There were two other fly fishers already fishing the stream at the end of the logging road where we parked. We further hiked upstream along a trail for 40 minutes.
http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo282/fdrwd421/1109%20last%20trip/d3yamame2.jpg
Although fish didn’t respond frequently, we caught fish once in a while. There were both yamame and iwana in this stream.
http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo282/fdrwd421/1109%20last%20trip/d3Kubotatakingaphoto.jpg
Mr. Kubota is taking a photo for his blog. He has a bear spray on his hip.
http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo282/fdrwd421/1109%20last%20trip/d3Kubotafishing.jpg
We took turns to fish. We didn’t parted so that we could get out of the stream all together if something had happened.
http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo282/fdrwd421/1109%20last%20trip/d3iwana2.jpg
We caught less than 20 fish among three of us. Nevertheless, it was fun. At around 4 o’clock, it started to rain heavily and we stopped fishing for the day.
http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo282/fdrwd421/1109%20last%20trip/d4Itofishing.jpg
On the 4th day, the same three of us went fishing together, again looking for fishable water. The weather front was still sticking around and water seemed very high everywhere. We finally started fishing a stream, which was very beautiful as you see in the pic, though the water was a bit high. We saw some nice fish, but all we caught were a few tiny iwana.
http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo282/fdrwd421/1109%20last%20trip/d5firstpool.jpg
On the last day of the trip, I had to get to the station of a local city before 1:30 PM. I went to a stream near the city to fish in the morning. I didn’t have many options of streams. Luckily, the weather was finally fine. I saw a car with a Tokyo number parking on the access point to the stretch where I had planned to fish. So, I went to the upper stretch, which starts from a dam filled with sand. There were only shallow riffles for the first few hundred meters from the dam. I fished only this riffle area because I have learned from experience that such a place often escapes heavy fishing pressure.
http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo282/fdrwd421/1109%20last%20trip/d5iwana1.jpg
This iwana readily took the fly in the very shallow water in the previous photo.
http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo282/fdrwd421/1109%20last%20trip/d52ndpool.jpg
I saw a trout rising here. I caught the fish on the first drift of the fly and also another from this small pool.
http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo282/fdrwd421/1109%20last%20trip/d5iwana3.jpg
There were plenty of fish. Because the water was very shallow, I had to cast farther than usual, which made the fishing more fun. I caught perhaps 10 fish in the morning before I stopped fishing, packed all my baggage, and headed for the station around noon. This trip would be my last fishing for this season. In the area where I live, we had some devastating typhoons this year, and I’m afraid trout might have been washed away from their habitat. We won’t know until the next season begins.
We’ll see.
At least for this season, …. All’s well that ends well.
http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo282/fdrwd421/1109%20last%20trip/d5iwana4.jpg
The last fish of the season.
Satoshi
The weather front that caused flood water the day before still remained and most of the streams around the lodge were blown out. We drove along a freeway for 2 hours to look for a fishable water.
http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo282/fdrwd421/1109%20last%20trip/d3.jpg
When we got to the stream, it wasn’t raining and the water level seemed very much normal. There were two other fly fishers already fishing the stream at the end of the logging road where we parked. We further hiked upstream along a trail for 40 minutes.
http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo282/fdrwd421/1109%20last%20trip/d3yamame2.jpg
Although fish didn’t respond frequently, we caught fish once in a while. There were both yamame and iwana in this stream.
http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo282/fdrwd421/1109%20last%20trip/d3Kubotatakingaphoto.jpg
Mr. Kubota is taking a photo for his blog. He has a bear spray on his hip.
http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo282/fdrwd421/1109%20last%20trip/d3Kubotafishing.jpg
We took turns to fish. We didn’t parted so that we could get out of the stream all together if something had happened.
http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo282/fdrwd421/1109%20last%20trip/d3iwana2.jpg
We caught less than 20 fish among three of us. Nevertheless, it was fun. At around 4 o’clock, it started to rain heavily and we stopped fishing for the day.
http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo282/fdrwd421/1109%20last%20trip/d4Itofishing.jpg
On the 4th day, the same three of us went fishing together, again looking for fishable water. The weather front was still sticking around and water seemed very high everywhere. We finally started fishing a stream, which was very beautiful as you see in the pic, though the water was a bit high. We saw some nice fish, but all we caught were a few tiny iwana.
http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo282/fdrwd421/1109%20last%20trip/d5firstpool.jpg
On the last day of the trip, I had to get to the station of a local city before 1:30 PM. I went to a stream near the city to fish in the morning. I didn’t have many options of streams. Luckily, the weather was finally fine. I saw a car with a Tokyo number parking on the access point to the stretch where I had planned to fish. So, I went to the upper stretch, which starts from a dam filled with sand. There were only shallow riffles for the first few hundred meters from the dam. I fished only this riffle area because I have learned from experience that such a place often escapes heavy fishing pressure.
http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo282/fdrwd421/1109%20last%20trip/d5iwana1.jpg
This iwana readily took the fly in the very shallow water in the previous photo.
http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo282/fdrwd421/1109%20last%20trip/d52ndpool.jpg
I saw a trout rising here. I caught the fish on the first drift of the fly and also another from this small pool.
http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo282/fdrwd421/1109%20last%20trip/d5iwana3.jpg
There were plenty of fish. Because the water was very shallow, I had to cast farther than usual, which made the fishing more fun. I caught perhaps 10 fish in the morning before I stopped fishing, packed all my baggage, and headed for the station around noon. This trip would be my last fishing for this season. In the area where I live, we had some devastating typhoons this year, and I’m afraid trout might have been washed away from their habitat. We won’t know until the next season begins.
We’ll see.
At least for this season, …. All’s well that ends well.
http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo282/fdrwd421/1109%20last%20trip/d5iwana4.jpg
The last fish of the season.
Satoshi