July field day

Today was the club's Metro field day.

It was wet and windy, and sadly only 6 people showed up with a miserable result of two fish between us.

While another group was fishing on Canning River, Mike and I took a run & gun tactics, fishing around a few places on Swan and trying to out run rain clouds at the same time. We eventually found a jetty where a school of bream was hanging around.

It was a perfect opportunity to try my new shrimp pattern, but it was again being ineffective. So, I changed the fly to my ever trusty mohair minnow which did its job at the end.

I cast out, let the fly go deeper, and gave a few twitches. I then saw three fish started following my fly. One of them shot off and turned side way, and I knew it took the fly. It was just an average fish, but it is always exciting to see fish hitting a fly even with a small fish, so I was still happy with the result.

今日は、地元ソルトウォーター・フライフィッシングのクラブのフィールドデイでしたが、雨と風のあいにくの天気で、参加者は全部でたったの６人、釣果は合わせてクロダイが２匹と、寂しい結果に終わりました。

昨日までの雨で川の水位が驚く程高かったので、僕と友達のマイクは、いつもの様にフラットを探るより、桟橋や橋周りの大場所を叩いて回る、Run&Gun作戦に変更。幾つかポイントを変更した後、魚が群れている桟橋を発見。

新しく巻いたシュリンプ・フライを試す良い機会でしたが、魚は完全に無視。そこでベイトフィッシュ・パターンに換えると、なんとか一匹がフライを引ったくってくれました。小さい型でしたが、まあ久々にサイトフィッシングで釣れたし、大荒れのコンディションの中の一匹だったので、今日はこの結果で良しとしましょう。

EF 50mm f/2.5 Macro