It was a nice day to be out this morning.
Not too hot, not too cold.
Just fine weather to fish and have a picnic.
25 February 2012
Morning tea
It was a nice day to be out this morning.
Not too hot, not too cold.
Just fine weather to fish and have a picnic.
19 February 2012
Size does matter
I started carrying my old DSLR to take my fishing photos again, and I have almost forgotten how heavy and cumbersome it is. It is like a carrying a piece of brick around my neck.
My friend just bought a mirror less SLR which is much smaller and lighter compared to a conventional SLR. May be that is a way to go in future, if they can produce the quality of image as good as bigger SLR cameras.
My catch on Saturday. EF 50mm f2.5 macro
Flying in formation. EF 24mm f2.8
Canning Bridge at night. EF 24mm f2.8
12 February 2012
Shrimp bonanza
I woke up very early this morning to go down to Fremantle with my friends to chase schools of tailors (blue fish). We got down to the North Mole around 7:00, and I hooked up one fish soon after. I brought fish close, but unfortunately, it bit off my tippet and got away. I had a short section of 15lb nylon as a bite tippet, but the fish managed to snip it off.
After that, we didn't hook up anything other than a couple of strange looking fish which took my streamer. So, we moved to the South Mole, but we didn't do well either over there.
It looked like tailors won't arrive today, so we decided to check a couple of different spots on the way back before going home.
To cut a long story short, we had a good fortune of stumbling acroos a spot which was covered with millions of small shrimps, and fish and birds were all gone crazy. It was meant to be a short stop before going to get coffee, but at the end, we got stuck there for a couple of hours. The water was exploding with shrimps fleeing from their predators and fish were hitting our flies hard. It was a magic session.
Shrimps getting chased by fish.
05 February 2012
For bottom dwelling creatures
I went out today to test my new shrimp imitation for catching bream. It is a generic crustacean pattern to suggest various shrimpy bottom dwelling creatures like a mud shrimp which hides in the sand by digging a hole with its big pincer (only one of its arms is big) and types of shrimps and prawns with a set of long skinny arms found on estuaries and rivers.
To make fly crawl and bounce off the bottom, I put a dumbbell eye as weight. The fly is tied reverse, so that a hook point facing up to avoid snagging up on the bottom.
Anyway, I fished a few hours in the afternoon today, and I got bream, flathead, and grunter. The fish were all small, but I was happy with the new fly manging to get a hat trick.
クロダイ用に巻いた毛鉤のテストに行って来ました。テナガエビやボケジャコなど、色々なエビの仲間に似せてフライです。
底を歩かせたり、びょんびょんとジャンプさせたりする様に、ダンベルアイのウェイトを付けてあります。それから、根掛かりを少なくするために、フックポイントが上に来る様に巻いてあります。
テストの結果は、小さい魚でしたが、bream、flathead、glounterとハットトリックを達成。まずまずの結果でした。
Mud Shrimp
pincers: hackle tips (light ginger) trimmed into a claw like shape.
body: goat hair and mohair (tan colour).
eyes: nylon mono painted black.
legs: rubber legs
flashy stuff: a couple of strands of crystal flash on each side
To make fly crawl and bounce off the bottom, I put a dumbbell eye as weight. The fly is tied reverse, so that a hook point facing up to avoid snagging up on the bottom.
Anyway, I fished a few hours in the afternoon today, and I got bream, flathead, and grunter. The fish were all small, but I was happy with the new fly manging to get a hat trick.
クロダイ用に巻いた毛鉤のテストに行って来ました。テナガエビやボケジャコなど、色々なエビの仲間に似せてフライです。
底を歩かせたり、びょんびょんとジャンプさせたりする様に、ダンベルアイのウェイトを付けてあります。それから、根掛かりを少なくするために、フックポイントが上に来る様に巻いてあります。
テストの結果は、小さい魚でしたが、bream、flathead、glounterとハットトリックを達成。まずまずの結果でした。
Mud Shrimp
pincers: hackle tips (light ginger) trimmed into a claw like shape.
body: goat hair and mohair (tan colour).
eyes: nylon mono painted black.
legs: rubber legs
flashy stuff: a couple of strands of crystal flash on each side
Bream will move at any water column to intercept their prey but there are times when they prefer to feed off the bottom, and when they are like that, the fly needs to go down and stay that way.
I was once standing on a jetty and watching a school of bream working in a shallow water. They were standing on their nose, and trying to dig something out of the sand. I then saw one fish grabbed something off the bottom and took off as other fish started chasing them. When the fish came pass in front of me, I could see that the fish was holding something with a big claw in its mouth. It looked me that the fish had manged to dig up a mud shrimp or something.
It was interesting to see the way other fish were chasing the fish with a meal. The fish were going zigzag like a pack of dogs chasing one with a piece of bone in its mouth. Perhaps the shrimp tasted so nice and it drove fish into a frenzy.
I was once standing on a jetty and watching a school of bream working in a shallow water. They were standing on their nose, and trying to dig something out of the sand. I then saw one fish grabbed something off the bottom and took off as other fish started chasing them. When the fish came pass in front of me, I could see that the fish was holding something with a big claw in its mouth. It looked me that the fish had manged to dig up a mud shrimp or something.
It was interesting to see the way other fish were chasing the fish with a meal. The fish were going zigzag like a pack of dogs chasing one with a piece of bone in its mouth. Perhaps the shrimp tasted so nice and it drove fish into a frenzy.
クロダイは、餌を捕るのに底から水面まで動きますが、ハゼやカニや底を這って生活しているエビの仲間などを選んで捕食している時は、底にべったりと張り付いて上を通過する毛鉤には反応が悪いです。
一度、アナジャコか何かを探して底を夢中で突いているクロダイの群れを観察した事がありますが、餌を捕まえた魚を他の数匹が追いかけ回していました。餌を口にくわえた魚は、右や左と泳いで追手を振り切り、他の魚が居なくなったのを確認してから、モグモグと餌を食べ始めました。その時に口から大きなハサミの様な爪がはみ出ていたのを覚えています。
一度、アナジャコか何かを探して底を夢中で突いているクロダイの群れを観察した事がありますが、餌を捕まえた魚を他の数匹が追いかけ回していました。餌を口にくわえた魚は、右や左と泳いで追手を振り切り、他の魚が居なくなったのを確認してから、モグモグと餌を食べ始めました。その時に口から大きなハサミの様な爪がはみ出ていたのを覚えています。
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