26.MAR.2011

After the Earthquake and Tsunami, it's pretty difficult to buy petrol near my home. If available
you had to wait for a few hours in the long queue to each to the pomp for only 10 litters, so
I only used my car for necessary shopping for daily food for my family at weekend. Still electric
power shortage causes blackout but now around Kanto area our daily life is getting normal day
by day almost same as it was and we can buy petrol without waiting in the long queue.

It's a fine Sunday morning I went to the river Katsura about 1 and half hour drive from my home
to the spot where my friends fished a day before. Very famous spot for trophy size Yamame and
Amago, over 30cm and more bigger, dream fish like over 40cm are constantly landed in every year.
When I arrived at the spot two double hand guys were there and it seems like more bait fishers
in upstream.

Waded in the river nothing happened, seemed like too early, send text message to my friend to
hear how was a day before. Yes it's too early to fish as they saw fish rises around the noon.
Anyway it's nice fine day, the sun shines and birds sing, wait and wait. Around 11:15 I had early
lunch, because something told me to have lunch earlier and get ready to fish.



At the last bait of sandwich, the first fish rise, then second. The time had come!! Small beatis
fly, Deer hair Comparadun, CDC dun, size 22-18 did not work, changed to the CDC down wing
# 14, then the biggest fish of the school suddenly took it and hooked. Fish moved so fast and
violently, less than a second, OH! a broken tippet...

Later on I finally landed a beautiful Amago with same CDC down wing fly, very silver, shine and
sparkling with early spring sun shine. But around noon when it got windy no fish rise and got
very quiet.

Once again, saw fish rise around 12:30, the mixed hatch of various size of mayfly from #22-12.
I could see dun, spinner and drowned dun and this time I tied spinner #14. Wind annoyed me, difficult
to cast without back space Every cast fish moved away, as they already knew I was chasing them.
Small splash and fish took my fly. It seemed like smaller fish when I hook but it was not, another
beauty, I have not landed for a few years, real muscular in the strong current, beautiful silver
and blue back fish.



Still there's some fish rise, but it's getting very difficult to cast against the strong wind.
Time to go home, it's a great day!!

Data
River Katsura, Yamanashi
http://www12.ocn.ne.jp/~gyokyou/
Day ticket ￥1200, Season ticket ￥8000
Temperture: 8.6 - 11.5℃
Wind: NE 1.7 - 3.6mps (Otsuki)
Fishing: 09:30 - 13:30
Catch: Two, 25 and 31cm
Fly: CDC down wing, Spinner, DD #14
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25.MAR.2011

Whenever I go to Kansai area always call my friend, Mr. Goblin to fish. This time I originally
planed to fish in Koke after my business meeting, but strong low pressure brought over
10 meter per second wind all around Kansai area there's no chance left to fish near Kobe.
Then what we could do? We are very easy and simple guys love to fish, decided to head to
Kochi for seabass.



After about 4 hours dive we have already arrived at Kochi and it's a bid early to start as still
strong wind remained this area. So we visited to the captain's fly tackle shop to talk and coffee.
After the talk and dinner around 21:30 we were ready to fish.



At the first spot, so many fish rises and we also got excited I landed a few small fish but my
friend landed a good fish with in a few cast, beautiful fish and very nice condition. Same as
last time main diet of the seabass during the winter month in Kochi is tiny mullets, average
2-3 cm and really difficult to fool them. I hooked a few good size but lost all, could landed
only small fish, you know I am just an amateur fisher, haha!!



Checked all around in the Urado bay and rivers, some spots fish were very active, but mostly
small fish. We went to the very blight spot and could see some good fish rise and take something
just under the water surface. I concentrated to cast and retrieve to cross between the blight
and shade, after a couple of cast fish suddenly took my fly but... with slight touch fish has gone
in the deep. We tried more at this spot as we saw some more fish rise but never took our fly.



Thanks, Mr. Yamahiro and Mr. Goblin, I have to come back here again in June for Akame.

Data
Place: Urado bay, Kochi Prefecture
Guide Boat: JPY 20,000 for a charter, http://swffgg.exblog.jp/
Fly shop Yamahiro: http://www4.ocn.ne.jp/~ggffsw/
The 4th day of Half tide, Moon age: 20.2
High tide: 22:51, 122cm, Low tide: 03:44, 93cm
Sunrise: 06:04, Sunset: 18:21
Moonrise: ****, Moonset: 09:48
Temperature: 6.9 - 5.1℃
Wind: NW 2.4 - WNW 1.4mps (Kochi)
Fishing: 21:30 - 04:00
Catch: Hira-Suzuki; 30-40cm
Fly: White and semitransparent zonker candy 1.5cm

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24.MAR.2011

So many small seaworm and baby fish rise,
a pretty difficult day!

Data
Shibaura canal, Tokyo
The 3rd day of Half tide, Moon age: 19.2
High tide:20:56, 157cm, Low tide: 02:01, 87cm
Sunrise: 05:40, Sunset: 17:56
Moonrise: 23:20, Moonset: 08:22
Temperature: 6.9 - 4.7 ℃
Wind: W 3.7 - NEN 2.0 mps
Fishing: 18:30 - 20:45
Catch: 2 babies
Fly: White and chartreuse zonker 2-3cm

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23.MAR.2011

Pretty good at the beginning many seaworm and fish,
but later on nothing just rain and snow!

Data
Shibaura canal, Tokyo
The 2nd day of Half tide, Moon age: 18.2
High tide:20:02, 173cm, Low tide: 01:29, 69cm
Sunrise: 05:41, Sunset: 17:55
Moonrise: 22:15, Moonset: 07:32
Temperature: 4.8 - 3.7 ℃
Wind: ENE 4.1 - NE 4.1 mps
Fishing: 18:30 - 20:15
Catch: 2, 30 and 45cm,
Fly: Brown seaworm fly 9cm

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22.MAR.2011

Raining, but it was a kind of good day!

Data
Shibaura canal, Tokyo
The 1st day of Half tide, Moon age: 17.2
High tide:19:13, 187cm, Low tide: 00:56, 51cm
Sunrise: 05:43, Sunset: 17:54
Moonrise: 21:05, Moonset: 06:48
Temperature: 7.1 - 6.9 ℃
Wind: NE 1.6 - N 2.3 mps
Fishing: 18:30 - 20:45
Catch: 3, 40 - 55cm, 19:25, 20:24, 20:43
Fly: Brown seaworm fly 9cm

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Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami

2011 Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami

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09.MAR.2011

After so many blank days, finally got some babies!!
Lost the first good fish, later on millions of small
seaworms bred.

Data
Shibaura canal, Tokyo
The 3nd day of Half tide, Moon age: 4.2
High tide:19:41, 163cm, Low tide: 01:25, 62cm
Sunrise: 06:01, Sunset: 17:43
Moonrise: 07:43, Moonset: 21:51
Temperature: 11.0 - 6.2 ℃
Wind: W 5.4 - NW 7.9 mps
Fishing: 18:30 - 21:45
Catch: 4 baybies
Fly: White and pink seaworm fly 9cm, white zonker 2-3cm

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08.MAR.2011

Some seaworm and fish, had great expectations.
But missed three times and got nothing!

Data
Shibaura canal, Tokyo
The 2nd day of Half tide, Moon age: 3.2
High tide:19:05, 172cm, Low tide: 01:00, 49cm
Sunrise: 06:02, Sunset: 17:42
Moonrise: 07:12, Moonset: 20:54
Temperature: 9.1 - 8.5 ℃
Wind: EWE 5.3 - 4.0 mps
Fishing: 18:15 - 20:45
Catch: None
Fly: White and pink seaworm fly 9cm

07.MAR.2011

Two fish rises and a take, but...
Becase of snow? Too cold?

Data
Shibaura canal, Tokyo
The 1st day of Half tide, Moon age: 2.2
High tide:18:31, 179cm, Low tide: 00:35, 37cm,
Sunrise: 06:04, Sunset: 17:41
Moonrise: 06:44, Moonset: 19:58
Temperature: 3.0 - 2.9 ℃
Wind: NNE 2.2 - 3.0 mps
Fishing: 18:15 - 19:45
Catch: None
Fly: White and pinlk seaworm fly 9cm

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05.MAR.2011

The beginning of trout fishing year 2011 is from River Kano, my favourite river. This river has
already opened from 1st of March and many local and keen fishers have already enjoyed the new
season. For most of us, It's like a New Year celebration and gatherings, as we have not meet each
other since last September or October. The day ticket is only JPY1100 and the season ticket is
JPY6000 for the River Kano and all of its tributaries, with one ticket you can fish by bait, lure
and fly whichever you like. This year, as usual we started from River Ohmi which is very popular
for fly fishers.



Early season is quite difficult for me, I know it's better to wait for a few weeks or so on but as
you can imagine I cannot help to fish. The low water and air temperature,limited hutch, crusty
rise, everything annoy me very much, but actually I like this kind of situations. The only one
thing, I really like to meet the first beauty of the year.



Waiting and waiting at my facouite spot, no rise, no fish. I dicided to down the river drifting wet
flies, but no contact at all. Then once again I backed to the fisrt spot, had lunch and waited.



Finally around 13:20 I saw a fish rise, a few minutes later once again. I tied the small daddy
dry fly which is very effective in the early season and secured my position to cast. First cast,
second, third, fish would not like to take daddy fly and changed to small CDC dun, then the fish
suddenly did rise to my fly. I sharply tightened my line, but left a slight touch, fish had gone
away and never up again. I got two more chance, missed both. No more fish rise, it's only about 30
minutes. That's all for today, but it's just a begining of the season and we can enjoy till the end
of September.



Data
River Ohmi, Sizuoka
Day ticket ￥1100, Season ticket ￥6000
Temperture: 8.2 - 11.8℃
Wind: SE 1.0 - SWS 3.4mps (Mishima)
Fishing: 09:30 - 14:30
Catch: None
Fly: Small daddy, CDC dun and Wet flies
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02.MAR.2011

No contact, nothing!!

Data
Rocks and ports of south end of Miura peninsula, Kanagawa Prefecture
The 2nd day of Half, Moon age: 27.0
Low tide: 21:56, 19cm, High tide: 04:34, 127cm
Sunrise: 06:11, Sunset: 17:38
Moonset: 15:19, Moonrise: 04:56
Temperture: 3.5 - 2.5℃
Wind: NE 1.9 - NE 2.7mps (Miura)
Fishing: 21:30 - 01:00
Catch: None
Fly: Semitransparent clouser shrimp 1.25" and Red wine zonker 2.00"

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