Shrimp pattern and cold winter weather

It is cold out to be on the river these days, and fishing has been slow.

I can tell you that bait fish are gone with bitter winter wash out, and I have been only getting odd fish here and there on my normally dependable bait fish patterns for the past few outings.

So I decided to put minnow patterns away this afternoon, and went to fish armed with a few shrimp patterns I tied yesterday.

Shrimps are found in the river all the time, but I have had some good results on shrimp patterns in winter for some reason.

Here are my results (I would landed more, if I wasn't missing a few more takes and didn't drop one OK size fish).

この所、川には、ベイトとなる小魚の姿がありません。冬の雨と一緒に海へ流されていってしまったようです。

いつもなら結果を出すベイトパターンも、あまり釣れません。

そういう事で、小魚パターンは見切って、エビのパターンの出番です。冬になると３センチ位の半透明のベビが沢山出て来ます。それを主食にしているのかどうなのか、寒い時期は、魚の反応もエビのパターンの方が良い様です。

Can you see shrimp's antennas coming out of its mouth?


This fish took a shrimp fly, and kept swimming as if it ate a real thing.