Weekend excursion

As the weather has been warming up, we went down to Rockingham and Mandurah with hope that we could catch some herring on poppers today. To prepare for our excursion, I tied a couple of deer hair popper last night.

I got a patch of deer hair from Japan which is made by the company called Nature's Spirit (the Nature's Spirit is US company, I think). The hair is in a nice bright chartreuse colour, and in my opinion, the quality and colour of materials from the company is one of the best in the market.

Well, an irony was, we didn't find any fish willing to smash poppers today. I still caught a handful of herring, but they were not interested in poppers at all.

大分暖かくなって来た事だし、久々にポッパーでherringを狙いに行って来ました。昨日の夜寝る前に、この間日本から取り寄せたた、ネイチャーズ・スピリットのシャートリューズのディア・ヘアーで毛針を巻いたので準備は万端。ところが、今日は、魚はポッパーには全く見向きもせず、ヒットがあったのは深く沈めたストリーマのみ。



We didn't find many salmon either. We only hooked up a couple when the tide swung around 3:00. Then rain came, so we packed up and went home.

I took some underwater test shots of salmon with my new Canon D10. Compared to my old Pentax Optio WP, the focusing speed is much faster which helped a lot. Holding fish in one hand, and taking a shot in another hand was difficult, and again having an image stabilizer helped me a great deal, I think.

As I said before, D10 is not going to match a DSLR in anyway in terms of picture quality whether on land or under water. Having said that, it is light and small, so I can still fish with it. A big camera surely can take great pictures, but I don't think I can enjoy fishing while carrying such a heavy gear. A camera, a housing, and all the rest of it.

Australian Salmonは、全く姿が見えませんでしたが、３時頃に潮が引き始めてやっと一匹釣れました。新しく買った防水カメラで試しに水中写真を何枚か撮って見ました。今まで使っていたペンタックスに比べると、フォーカスのスピードが速く正確なので、ピントが合うのを待っている間に魚が暴れてしまう様な事が無くて断然使い安いです。

Canon D10