Superb weekday fishing trip

3:40 left home.

6:40 arrived around the gate entrance.

6:56 almost got ready for start biking and fishing adventure.

7:38 Checked the branch stream first.

7:51 First one was IWANA.

Got several good reactions though, totally it was difficult situation because of high water. Decided to move to the main stream after about 2h research.

9:43 Met MAMUSHI? snake on the way down to the bike...

Around 11AM, restarted fishing on the main stream.

Just 12:00 got the 2nd IWANA.

This weevil was popped out of IWANA's mouth.

Perfect sunny day today.

13:09 First AMAGO as 3rd one.

13:42 4th.

14:00 5th. Reaction got better though, they often refused parachute pattern today.

Changed to the other fly pattern to the Humpy.

14:47 Size upped 6th one, good AMAGO.

He took the Humpy pattern as soon as it dropped on the surface. Very exciting scene.

Basically sunny though, it was hard to see the fly because I forgot to take the polarized glasses today...

16:06 a little size upped 7th good fish. Good fighter.

I thought no more big fish today though...

16:33 8th was 27.5cm so nice one!

It took several minutes to land him after hooking.

Proof of the wildness.

Very happy to catch him as the last fish of today.

17:02 Finish fishing.

17:10 Started walking the dart road.

18:10 Could be back to the parked bike.

18:40 Could return to the car after 0.5h biking.

22:30 back after taking hot spring and meal. Well done!

Searching for AMAGO; Just 3days after last fishing trip

 

4:46AM at Lake I. Left home 2:50 and arrived at the parking space at 5:30. Must be the earliest record of mine.

6:45 Found the earlier fisherman's bike at the entrance of the hole A which I aimed at today. Changed the plan to B. Parked my bike a little bit lower than it and walked downstream for a while. My plan B was to enter the hole A after 2 or 3 hours later.  Ate the breakfast as first(7:15).

9:17 Joyful first AMAGO of mainstream after 2 hours complete silence. 

Clouds covered the mountain sometimes.

I kept fishing there until 11AM though, got almost no reaction from fish...

Changed to the Plan C. Moved to the other hole and started fishing past 12PM.

13:16 He is the one I wanted to see here.

25cm perfect buck AMAGO trout.

13:44 Stopped fishing there and walked back to my bike.

14:04 Arrived there, and go up by bike a little.

Sometimes it showed the blue sky.

14:27 Let's check this stream as the last of today.

I met the other fisherman going down along the river soon.

14:49 First IWANA as 3rd fish of today.

Why do you wanna stay in the water?

15:29 Took a short break because the rain got heavy a little.

15:37 4th.

16:06 5th one just same sized cookie cutter.

16:11 6th one. Got activated a little by little?

16:16 7th one after 5 minutes.

16:27 8th was not IWANA but superb AMAGO!

I was so glad because I didn't expect it. 

16:53 added one more IWANA as 9th. And missed two fishes I could set a hook once... Stopped fishing at 17:16, picked my bike at 17:47, and could be back to the car at 19:25 not so dark. I was so exhausted though, got fine after getting into the hot spring. Would like to give another try to this river soon hopefully.

Gone fishing with curryman during Summer vacation

Left curryman's home around 4AM, and could start biking around 7:40.

9:52 Joyful first fish was...

Just SYAKU male one! Looks like YAMATO, doesn't it?

Nevertheless there was the landslide over there, some fishermen were seen around upper stream area.

Reaction from fish was not bad though, most of them took fly very nervously. So it caused many miss-hooking today including big one's...

10:58 2nd one.

11:28 Orange colored tummy of 3rd one.

It sometimes rained strongly and intermittently in the morning.

12:02 4th fish.

Sometimes it was covered with thick clouds.

12:09 5th

12:15 6th

12:55 7th

13:04 8th one by Beetle pattern.

13:24 Got 9th small fish.

13:36 Beautiful green backed 10th one.

13:44 11th one was about 25cm length.

Partly sunny in the afternoon.

14:38 12th one at upper stream.

14:54 13th small one.

15:03 same sized 14th one.

Let's go back to the bike place.

Typical clouds in summer.

16:06 Could be back to the parking space.

16:38 Good start of evening fishing as 15th one.

17:02 16th.

17:37 17th as the last one.

I think I could enjoy IWANA fishing in summer.

Got lots of reaction from deep slow water near the white bubbles.