A fishing irony

While my friends were driving South yesterday to take a part in our club's freshwater field day / weekend, I was driving North to come home. I have some work to be done by this weekend, so spending a whole weekend chasing fish was unfortunately not an option.

Anyway, it turned out that I had a bit of time to go fishing this afternoon, so I went bream fishing for a hour or so instead. An irony was, I hooked up a good fish which I haven't caught for some time during this winter. It was one fine fish, and I would not catch it, if I was gone South. Watching the fish swimming away, I thought missing the field day wasn't that bad after all.

今週末は、クラブの鱒釣りフィールドデイなのですが、来週までに終わらせなくてはならない仕事があって、みんなと一緒に泊まりで釣りに行く事は出来そうも無いので、行くのは止めにしました。

だからと言って、釣りに行くのを諦めた訳ではなく、今日の午後は、ちょろっと家の近くでクロダイ釣りに行ってきました。まさに、捨てる神あれば拾う神あり、久々に良い型のクロダイが釣れました。

A good start, I thought.




It was a fine fish.




Looks like a new hook did a good job.


Canon D10

Spring flower

Flowers of Prunus are blooming in our school yard which remind me of Japanese spring.

I went to fish after work today. It felt like fish were chasing flies better than last week and water was bit warmer today. Spring has arrived, I think.

先週咲き始めた学校の花、もう満開に近い感じです。やっぱりこの花を見ると日本の春が懐かしくなります。

食料調達を兼ねて、仕事帰りにちょい釣り。先週より水が暖かくなった様な気がしましたし、魚の反応も良かった様な感じでした。もう季節は春みたいです。

Canon D10

One small fish

May be it got to do with the small amount of rain we had this winter, or there may be a better explanation that we are not aware of, but I think fishing has been very slow this winter.

Normally we catch some very good size fish in winter, but we haven't got much so far, and it looks like the winter is over anyway.

We fished on Canning River this morning, and I got only one fish which was slightly bigger than my friend's sailfish fly. Fishing was so slow, and we decide to move to Swan, but it was the same result. We moved around a lot to find fish, but found nothing at the end.

何 となく今年の冬はあまり良い釣果が無かった様に感じます。例年なら良いサイズの魚を数匹獲れるのですが、今年の結果はまったくの平凡。そして、そうこうし ている間にどうやら冬は終わってしまったようです。いつもより雨が少なかったので、その辺りが影響しているのかもしれません。

今日は、いろいろな場所を試したが、手のひらサイズのが一匹釣れただけ。下手をすると、セイルフィッシュ用に友達が巻いていた毛針の方が大きかったかも。いったい魚はどこにいったのやら。

Canon D10

Happy new season

A trout season 2010 - 2011 has opened.

My friend and I had our first trout fishing trip, and thanks fish god, we both caught our first trout of the new season. I would like to thank my friend for sharing a good day with me.

今年も鱒釣りシーズン解禁です。という事で友達と初釣行に行って来ました。キャストやドリフトの感を取り戻すまで、二人ともミスの連続でしたが、なんとかシーズン初フィッシュを拝めました。

Canon D10




on my friend's Nikon D90