Scouting around on the Murray River

I jumped on Captain Albert's boat to fish on the Murray River yesterday.

Murray is deep and the river bank is heavily covered with trees, so people say it is the best to fish from a boat at least for those who are interested in fly fishing.

That was my reason why I haven't paid much attention to the Murray until now. Besides, the river always looks bit brown and grubby to me and I haven't been inspired to fish there.

昨日は、友達のアルバートの船で、パースから南に一時間の所にあるMurray Riverを釣りました。川が深くて、岸は、ブッシュだらけなのでウェーディングからの釣りは難しく、フライフィッシングをするには、ボートから釣る事になります。

この川を釣るのは、昨日が初めてでした。ボートを持っていない事もありますが、そもそもこの川は、いつもなんとなく濁っていてあまり魅力を感じないので、今までは、スルーしていました。

We dropped the boat upstream of Ravens Wood, and we went down stream. The river was silty as I thought it would be, but the clarity improved when we were getting closer to the river mouth. The last section actually looked to be an interesting place to fish as there are big snags and deep holes.

In terms of fishing, it was very quiet yesterday. I only pulled out one fish around a jetty, and Albert landed a few, but fish were small. We only saw a handful of small bait and the river didn't look alive at all.

Perhaps bream were staying deep and not feeding much. I was getting hits here and there, and it felt me that they were hitting flies out of their curiosity. After all these were all small baby fish. Probably bigger and wiser fish were hiding among snags and sleeping.

Anyway putting a slow fishing aside, it was a beautiful day to be on a boat.


ボートで河口から１０キロ位のところを出発して、釣りながら下流へ向かって行きましたが、予想した通り、川の水は、濁っていましたが、河口から２キロ位の所からは、濁りも取れて良さそうな感じでした。

釣りの方は、さっぱりの結果でした。倒木や橋桁などを攻めて行ったのですが、殆ど反応無し。河口の方で、やっとこ小さいのが釣れただけでした。小さなアタリはチラホラとあったのですが、小さい魚のリアクションバイトの様な感じでした。

釣りとは逆に、天気の方は、晴れ晴れとしてボートに乗ってユラユラと川を行くには良い一日でした。


Going through the Sandy Cove canal to go to a coffee shop




This baby is my only catch