30.APR.2011-2

Still you can enjoy beautiful Sakura
and other flowers here in Oshino.



Red did work very well before the dusk.
Evening was so, so!!



Data
Oshino fishery, Yamanashi
Day ticket: JPY800
Weather: Cloudy/Windy
Temperature: 16.5 - 11.3 ℃
Wind: E 1.6 - SW 1.0 mps (Yamanaka)
Fishing: 16:30 - 19:00
Catch: Brown, Rainbow and Yamame
Fly: Compara dun, CDC dun (red body) #18
Caddis pupa and adult #8
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30.APR.2011-1

The next day, we headed to the Izu peninsula, Shizuoka, the famous river Kano and tributaries
for Amago. The small tributary we fish today is a small river but plenty of beautiful small fish
there. I love this river very much. Usually from May we fish here as main river of Kano opens
for Ayu and we have no chance to fish there.



Fortunately no one there, must be good fishing today. My friend way up and I walked way down
along the road to the stream. Fine weather, no cloud at all, at the beginning it was quite difficult,
saw no fish at all. About one hour later fish got very active, time to time took my fly. All small
fish but very beautiful, orange and red dots on the silver body. Wind got very strong and could
not cast to the right spot, even I could cast the right spot wind blew up lines and no way to
drift naturally.



I was lucky, it seemed like a newly released fish but I landed a good fish just before the lunch.
Wind became more and more strong, saw weather forecast they said it became more strong
and we decided not to fish here today and headed to the Oshino fishery.



Data
River Ohmi and Kano, Sizuoka
Weather: Fine/Windy
Day ticket ￥1100
Temperature: 14.3 - 20.9℃
Wind: SW 0.7 - WSW 5.6mps (Mishima)
Fishing: 08:00 - 12:00
Catch: Amago
Fly: Elk Hear Caddis #14 and Compara Dun cream color #16
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29.APR.2011

A friend came from Nagoya and we fished together for tow days. The first day, my choice for
him was the mountain streams in Yamanashi, fly on Iwana. The way to the rivers are usually 2
hours drive but today was the first day of the Japanese golden week and traffic out from the
capital was quite heavy so took about 3 hours to reach the first spot.



There's so many tributaries on the river Fuefuki, most of these tributaries has got very nice
stocks of Iwana. Today's river is my most favorite river, a kind of rock climb fishing, good for
your health, hahaha and time to time I fish here from April to September. It's a bid early for
the best season but hopefully we meet some beauties today.



Early in the morning, birds song, cool fresh air however strange, strange and strange, no idea
why but no fish at all for over an hour. It should not be like this, should be much easier. Tried
whatever we can but we only landed a couple of fish in this river. I should come back here again
a couple weeks later to see.

We gave up this tributary quite early, moved to the main river for the evening. Before the dusk,
fish were already very active. It's a kind poor day but and we enjoyed the first day.



Data
River Fuefuki and a tributary, Yamanashi
Day ticket: JPY800
Weather: Fine/Partially cloudy
Temperature: 14.3-20.0-16.6℃
Fishing: 09:30-14:30 and 17:00-19:00
Catch: IWANA and small Amago
Fly: Blown Parachute #16, Elk Hear Caddis #14
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27.APR.2011

Stormy weather, not fish just got wet!!

Data
River Tsurumi, Yokohama
Weather: Windy/Heavy rain
Temperature: 19.8 - 19.3 ℃
Wind: SSW 8.7 - S 6.3 mps
Fishing: 20:00 - 21:15
Catch: None
Fly: Yellow frog popper
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18.APR.2011

A wondrfull day off in Bangkok, Thai!!



Hot, Hot and Hot, everthing is Hot!!

Data
Pilot 111 Brramundi Fishing Pool
http://bangkokhooker.wordpress.com/fishing-ponds/pilot-111-barramundi-galore/
http://www.john-tom.com/FishingInThailand/FishingInThailand.html#Pilot
Day ticket 500THB
Weather: Fine
Temperature: 27 - 37℃
Fishing: 11:00 - 15:30
Catch: Many
Fly: Popper, Clouser Minnow, Deciver Minnow
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16.APR.2011-2

Managed to fool a fish, but got too windy to fish.




Data
River Katsura, Yamanashi
http://www12.ocn.ne.jp/~gyokyou/
Day ticket ￥1200
Weather: Fine/Windy
Temperature: 23.0 - 26.1℃
Wind: SSE 1.4 - SW 4.2 mps (Otsuki)
Fishing: 10:15 - 13:30
Catch: One
Fly: Baetis, Caddis, Torleya japonica: Spinner, DD #18-20
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16.APR.2011-1

My favorite small mountain stream, the first time in this season. Luckily, there's no car at
the parking, it should be nice day today. Early in the morning, I tied a brown parachute and
as I expected, soon a small beautiful Amago took my fly, then Iwana



Almost every good spots, fish came up to the stream surface to see and if fly drifted naturally
without any drug fish took it without any hesitation. Maybe a few or couple of days no one fished
here. And it's quite early season no much fish had been taken.



The high mountains, spring has just come. Small but beatifull fish are here and there, that's why
I really love these rocky mountain steams, the place I can play with pure and naughty fish, not
fastidious at all.



IWANA, Japanese Char
Salvelinus leucomaenis ｐｌｕｖｉｕｓ and japonicus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvelinus

Data
River Fuefuki tributaries, Yamanashi
Day ticket: JPY800
Weather: Fine
Temperature: 12.3- 26.1-23.8℃
Fishing: 07:30-9:30 and 14:30-17:00
Catch: IWANA and a small Amago
Fly: Blown Parachute #16, Elk Hear Caddis #14
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13.APR.2011

Saw a fish, that's all. Maybe a few weeks later!

Data
River Tsurumi, Yokohama
Weather: Fine
Temperature: 15.8 - 15.3 ℃
Wind: S 4.0 - SSW 2.4 mps
Fishing: 20:00 - 21:15
Catch: None
Fly: Pink frog popper
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11.APR.2011-2

I hate the small dimple rises, the world of surface tension
and just below the surface.
Got four chances and hooked two times but...

Data
River Katsura, Yamanashi
http://www12.ocn.ne.jp/~gyokyou/
Day ticket ￥1200, Season ticket ￥8000
Weather: Cloudy
Temperature: 10.1 - 13.7℃
Wind: NW 1.2 - SSE 0.7 mps (Otsuki)
Fishing: 10:45 - 14:15
Catch: None
Fly: Baetis, Caddis, Torleya japonica: Spinner, DD #18-20
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10.APR.2011-1

They are smarter than me!!

Data
Oshino fishery, Yamanashi
Weather: Cloudy / light rain
Temperature: 6.4 - 6.3 ℃
Wind: SE 0.2 - 2.6 mps (Yamanaka)
Fishing: 07:30 - 09:30
Catch: One rainbow
Fly: CDC dun #20
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09.APR.2011

There's fish like last week, but all foul hooked.
Only this carp took my fly.

Data
River Tamagawa, Tokyo side
Weather: Cloudy / light rain
Temperature: 15.2 - 15.4 ℃
Wind: S 3.6 - 4.8 mps
Fishing: 06:15 - 07:45
Catch: None
Fly: Yellow, Orange, Black, chartreuse and etc #10
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06.APR.2011-2

Moved to way down stream of the River Katsura, there's a huge and well-known backwater
area where I fished last week as well. It's Wedensday no one was there at our favourite spot,
only a few bait fishers were in the upstream.

As we expected we arrived at right time, just on time at 11:00 the first fish rise. It's exactly
the same spot as last week and I was the first to cast for this fish. After a couple of cast and
drift fish suddenly took my fry but I missed it as it was all of the sudden. Then I found some
fish rise at 30-40 meter from us and I slowly moved down stream without scaring the fish.



Up and down the stream with fish rise and tried different flies, well it was the brown spinner,
I landed the first silver beauty of the day.



Then second one on the same fly which is a bit bigger and stronger, a bit smaller than my
net, ha-ha. No idea why but later on water became muddy, because of melt water? river
constructions? There's no fish rise any more and it seemed like end of the day. So I climbed
up the bank.

A couple of minutes later, water again became clear and clear, then fish started rise again.
From the bank I found a nice fish and tried to fool it, but every cast and drift fish moved away
and it's getting difficult to reach. Luckily fish took my fly and it was a really nice and beautiful
silver Amago. Tried more but it's quite difficult to hook from high bank and fish got more and
more nervous and selective.



Data
River Katsura, Yamanashi
http://www12.ocn.ne.jp/~gyokyou/
Day ticket ￥1200, Season ticket ￥8000
Weather: Fine
Temperture: 17.9 - 19.1℃
Wind: NE 2.0 - 3.5 mps (Otsuki)
Fishing: 11:00 - 13:30
Catch: Three Amago
Fly: Spinner, CDC down wing #14, Japanese mayfly: Cincticostella elongatula
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06.APR.2011-1

A fine day, clear and blue skies a beautiful view of Mt. Fuji from the river. It's already almost
a month from the opening day and trout have already studied all kind of fly patterns from the
book and know how to see the fakes as millions of fakes they have seen, very difficult to fool.

Been trying to fool some good brownies, some of them tried to take my nymph, but I could not
hook any of them. You know they were cleverer than me.



Oshino fishery, River Katsura, Yamanashi
http://www.ffmedia.net/oshino/data/OshinoMAP_English.pdf
Day ticket JPY800, Year ticket JPY4000
Species: Rainbow, Brown, Brook trout, Yamame and more, reproduction and released fish
Bag limit: 10
Fishing: one hour before the Sunrise to one hour after the Sunset

Data
Oshino fishery, Yamanashi
Weather: Fine
Temperture: 1.0 - 11.7℃
Wind: SE 1.2 - 3.3mps (Yamanaka)
Fishing: 07:30 - 09:30
Catch: Two baby rainbow
Fly: Black beatis nymph #18, 20 and others
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05.APR.2011

Millions of billions of baby mullets, bass got mad.
A few contact but... I really hate it!!

Data
Shibaura canal, Tokyo
The 1st day of Half tide, Moon age: 1.5
High tide: 18:25, 179 cm, Low tide: 00:12, 58 cm
Sunrise: 05:23, Sunset: 18:06
Moonrise: 05:46, Moonset: 19:45
Temperature: 11.8 - 11.1 ℃
Wind: WWE 8.3 - SSW 6.7 mps
Fishing: 19:00 - 21:00
Catch: None
Fly: White zonker 1-2cm and Olive seaworm fly 10cm
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04.APR.2011

So many fish rise,
however all my flies did not much the bait!!

Data
Shibaura canal, Tokyo
The 3rd day of Spring tide, Moon age: 0.5
High tide: 17:50, 180 cm, Low tide: 23:44, 50 cm
Sunrise: 05:24, Sunset: 18:05
Moonrise: 05:16, Moonset: 18:48
Temperature: 5.9 - 2.7 ℃
Wind: NE 9.6 - NE 6.9 mps
Fishing: 18:30 - 20:30
Catch: 2
Fly: White zonker 2cm and Olive seaworm fly 10cm

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