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I went fishing on the last weekend of June, when the rain front happened to move a little bit north, giving us temporarily bright sunny weather.
It was very hot. I sweated a lot just while gearing up on the streamside road, but the water level was high and the water was cool thanks to the lot of rain during weekdays.
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The color of the sky may seem strange in this picture, because I accidentally set the strange image filter of my camera.
I had been afraid that the hot weather might put down trout, but the first amago, which readily took my fly, erased my worry.
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Indeed, trout were very active, which is unusual for this season here.
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I had a strike or two in each run segmented by rocks in the stream in this picture.
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Well, I had some unwelcome guests to my fly too. They are beautiful, though. Only if they grew much bigger!
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This fish belongs to the carp family and grows to only 4-5 inches. I like trout best, of course, but if there is large fish of any species that I can catch with flies, I would gladly fish them during summer, when trout fishing is very slow here.
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The largest fish of the day (less than 9 inches though). It seems this amago became smolt but is now returning to parr.
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The place I fished on this day was a very short stretch above a reservoir. At the upper end of the stretch, there is a hydropower plant, which releases cool water from dams that are located far upstream. This makes the stretch a rare place where there is a possibility of catching trout even in the midsummer in this area.
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A couple of weeks before, I fished all day in the rain and caught only one small amago. So, I was very happy about the day’s fishing. But the hot weather told me it’s time I went fishing for iwana (char) to the central mountain area, which would be my next report.
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