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and then, West meets East
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.
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.
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.
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.
I add some more fish in the mormong. All of them took the midge pupa.
Some good holes still remain.
Though many holes became shallow, fish were there.
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.
This is Ausable Wolf, beautifully tied, one of the flies that Brk Trt sent me.
Immediately I caught this one.
and this one (No, this is just a close-up of the fish above.)
and another
and another
I caught several fish with the fly.
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. :)
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Parr
Re: and then, West meets East
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.
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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
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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.
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Fry
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Satoshi & Brk Trt, neat thread(s)! I've really enjoyed the stories and pictures.
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smallstreams.com supporter
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Good stuff guys.
Those are some beautiful fish.
A.T.
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Fry
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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
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satoshi-
those are beautiful pics and fish. what kind of trout is that?
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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.
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