Another quiet weekend

The weather was lousy. Fishing was average.


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A school holiday and bream fishing

I am still on a school holiday. No class to teach. Spending another afternoon on a river.




Two pictures of the same bream. I like how the fish looks on the second picture.

I also caught a larger than average size Yellowtail Grunter.


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Quiet sunday

Fishing was very quiet this afternoon. The tide was bit slow, and without wind, the water was hardly moving. It is not a good condition for bream fishing.

We tried a few places without success, but I finally hooked up one fish by casting around a marker (a green marker next to my friend on the picture). I thought a drop off near the marker would be an ideal ambush spot for a bream specially on a lazy day like today.



It is a major blowy spot on the low tide, but the tide was bit higher this afternoon, and I got connected to the fish on the second cast.

I was happy to land this fish not only it fought hard but also did that infront of bait fishing people who appeared to be catching blowy after blowy.

Fly fishing rocks!



今日の釣りはとてもスロー。場所を変え、毛鉤を変え、色々試してみましたが、魚はまったく釣れません。あきらめ気味でパイロンの横にキャストすると、良いサイズの魚が掛かりました。

フグしか釣れていない餌釣りの人の前で、魚は良いファイトを見せてくれました。フライフィッシングでクロダイ。餌釣りには負けません。

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Unpredictable

It is unpredictable. That is how I describe it to someone who is new to fly fishing for bream.

Fishing can be excellent one day. You get a hook up on every single cast. You pick the similar tide, the same time of the day, and go to the same streach of the river. You often get nothing next time.

This is where bream fishing is very different from trout fishing. Good lies almost always hold trout on anyday. It is a totally different story for bream.

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One spot is good for a day or so. Fish will then move to different spots, and you have to find another school of fish somewhere. It could be only 30 m up or down stream or it could be 500 m or more.

A key for success is not to stay in one spot. You should rather move to a different spot if you don't get hit within 15 min. You can wait 2 or 3 days until fish come back to the same spot, or you can walk to the next bend or bay where you may find feeding fish.

Patience is virtue in life but not necessarily for bream fishing.


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クロダイのフライフィッシングの一番難しいのは、魚が１つのポイントに長く留まらない点です。トラウトの場合、良いポイントには、誰かに釣られない限り、常に魚がついています。水量などの大きな変化が無ければ、シーズンを通して同じ魚がプールや倒木の下などの同じポイントに居座るのも不思議な事ではありません。

クロダイは、１つの場所に居座る事は少なく、群れで川を移動しています。よって、あるポイントで釣れても、次の日には、同じ時間、潮目を選んでもアタリすらない事が普通です。

良いポイントは、次の群れが来た場合にまた釣れる様になるのですが、それが２、３日後であったり、一週間後であったりもします。よって同じ場所で粘るより、ある程度釣ってアタリがなければ、次のポイントに移動します。

クロダイに関して言えば、忍耐よりも早くあきらめる方が成功への近道だと思います。

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Bream weather

We went out to catch bream on the last weekend. We tried a section of Canning River down stream from the Shelly Bridge. The weather was beautiful but fishing was average.

先週は雨続きでしたが、週末は運良く晴れ。いつもの様に、フライフィッシングでクロダイを狙いに、友達といつもの川へ行きました。残念ながら、天気は良くても釣りの方はいまいち。



Today, the weather was cold and bit windy. The sky was dark and the rain was on a way. It was a good "bream weather", I thought. So I went out to catch some bream.

The fishing turned out to be very good as I hoped. I had many hits and misses, and landed a couple of nice fish along with a few smaller ones.

天気予報では今日からまた雨。雨が降り出す前に１時間程釣りに。低気圧が来る前は、どういうわけかクロダイの活性があがります。

平日の午後、しかも天気も良く無いとあって、川には他に人はいません。クロダイと一対一、良いサイズのが数匹釣れて、十分楽しませてもらいました。冬の釣りも捨てたもんじゃありません。

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