Thursday, September 28, 2023

After almost 4 years...


 Lance seems to be backed with SYAKU YAMATO today. Thanks a lot, curryman!

Sunday, October 6, 2019

One Sunday of autumn

17:34, it will be fine sunny day tomorrow.

Woke up 5:30, left home 6:40 with my wife.
Dropped her off for her olympic volunteering at 7:30.
Then headed for the river which would be opened by the end of October.

8:40, could see the first baby.

9:32, 2nd was also tiny one.
Soon got the same sized 3rd one.

9:46 not bad one as the 4th.
And could confirm another possibility there.

The red wine season has come.

Saturday, September 28, 2019

Last bike and FF trip 2019 with curryman

Left home 3:15, and picked up curryman around 3:45.
Before 7AM, there were three cars at the lower space and four at the upper one.
We decided to check the downstream first.
8:02 Deposited our bikes.

Weather got better than the forecast.

10:38 Our conclusion was there were no fish there...

Biked up a little and got started second research above the junction spot.

11:32 My late but joyful first fish was 

superb conditioned.

28 looked like YAMATO IWANA by ant parachute.

11:50 2nd small. Couldn't catch all reactions though, found out that there were good fishes there.

12:32 Found the big rock having big honeycomb of hornet...
Above this rock, could see there were good fishes but they were so selective.

So couldn't catch any for a while...


14:44 Continued to fishing up.

15:01 3rd small one after good one's reaction.

15:50 4th good conditioned one.

16:16 5th one.

Including spooked huge fish, could see several fishes just below the dam.

On the walking back to the bike place, found the floating fish in the pond. It was not sure whether it was trout or not and it was getting dark little by little. If you were me, what are you going to do?

Sunday, September 22, 2019

Fall mountain stream

8:28 Got the pole positon.

9:33 First fish after two mistakes.
Situation itself was not bad so far.

Total three reactions below it.

11:46 Nice 26 IWANA after long silence as 2nd one.


12:00 3rd.

12:26 oranged tummied 4th one.

12:34 5th was a kind of superb healthy fish.

27cm, the biggest one today.


13:00 6th had strange shaped body.

13:38 Black YAMATO as 7th.

14:15 this 8th one was the last fish at the upper section.

I started walking back to the bike. Took over 1 hour.

17:04 After 0.5h checking around the OM area in the evening.
Got only one good reaction from the water pocket.

Sunday, September 15, 2019

First try for the uppest section

Added two colored ant pattern mainly by thread.
Later noticed that it is easy to be cut by fish's teeth. Should be coated to protect from them.

On the way to the river.

7:59 Dropped the bike at a little lower place than AIT. There were two bikes separately at AIT.



In the morning got two chases at lower section. It is a kind of expected result.
Checked in the rodge first, and decided to fish around it until dinner time.

13:04 parked at the suspension bridge.

Though there are two cars and bicycle three or four above the bridge, I thought that there should be a chance because they must have started fishing from early morning.

There were two short byte though the section. And at the last hole shaped Y streams, good one took my fly and could set a hook on it once. But it came off immediately...

17:00 dinner time.

I set the second day to unseen the uppest section and I left the lodge at half past 5 and, after breakfast of 5:00, Arrived the upper lodge at half past 6 AM. The feeling that is earlier than an assumption more than 30 minutes. I deposit a bicycle and walk to the junction of two branches. One had too much quantity of water, and should be eliminated from options. Expectation that there is slightly much quantity of water, but is sublimed into the flow that I seem to be able to catch.

Began to fish seriously past 9 AM. Stream itself looked not but though, there is no reaction at all…

I discovered  a preceding person upstream at past 10:00…Are you serious? Went down once.

I discovered a bait angler downstream earlier than expectation. So began to fish a litter upper than him. Got only two nervus bites.

12:42 Back to the bike.

14:18 Let's start fishing at the lower section.

15:03 First and the last one.

18:15 Lance's toughest two days biking, walking and fishing were getting the end.

Sunday, September 8, 2019

Three chances through a day

8:30 dropped my bike at the middle point once.
Lower section were crowded with many fishermen.
Sunny day just before the typhoon coming.

10:03 Took the first rest soon after no response from fish.
Water showed higher level and stronger stream than usual.


10:17 Got first reaction from fish and could catch it. #16 brown ant parachute.

Around noon found the other fisherman forward, so walked down to the bike. Then met another two lure fishermen downstream. Middle section was also crowded...

Biking up and reached the AIT point soon. There was one white colored ban only having permission. Since there was no bike between the middle and AIT, I decided to fish below the AIT. Walked down from the spot dropping bike and went down to the river at the bridge.

Restarted fishing after 13:00. And the second chance came suddenly.
At the pool shaped from two wide stream a kind of big 'Y shaped' hole. When I drifted around #12-14 peacock bodied parachute beetle, huge fish floating up and tried to bite my fly! But couldn't. Kept chasing and failed to bite again. And third try to bite made me set a hook a little earlier than usual. Couldn't set a hook... He never rose up again... 

Past 14:00, fished up around AIT. Decided to kept fishing upstream after earlier fisherman who should own the white ban.

Got the third chance from the riffle. Good fish chased and tried to bite my fly. But it couldn't because of fast stream. Stopped fishing  around 16:45 and walked down to the bike past 17:45. Enjoyed biking back to the car till 18:30.

There were only three reaction from fish through a day. But one of them was...
Need to study and modify the plan.