They worked!! ; 2nd trip to Oshino

Since Kanogawa main stream showed severe condition, I changed today's place to Oshino.

The theme of today was 'Catch the fish with the fly tied by myself'.
I left my home about 8 o'clock and arrived there about 9 o'clock. There was not any rise, and I found the good fish eating nymph under the surface. Let's try sight nymphing as first try today.

I got several strikes though, couldn't set a hook... Oh boy, I missed good one... I spent about two hours for that.


I moved upstream and found the rise! Although it was very sensitive Yamame trout, I could hook him up!

This difficult target gave me a confidence.

















I tried the fly tied by me also.
This ugly, I meant 'not beautiful', CDC midge adult #24 worked fine, good job!!





Today's lunch was also made by me. It was the rest of last nights Japanese chow mein, but tasted good for me.










After lunch I tried to take a pic with zoom lens just for change.


Beautiful good size rainbow was cruising for feeding something.





This was the first and last hole this afternoon.


I stayed there about two hours because there were several continuous rises.






This was my first brownie there. It was caught my handmade one also!






#20 CDC dun for Kokagerou(close to baetis)
I finished my fishing today before the evening, because I was satisfied with the result and tired so much.
I could find next theme also today. I'm looking forward to next trip.

Eventually...

I resumed the tying!!

Tying and alcohol are good combo, I think.

I remembered many things little by little.

#24 CDC midge pupa

CDC length should be adjusted at the river.

#20 CDC dun

Post position should have been center...

It was not bad as the first one after long long ... interval. I realized its fun so much!

Kanogawa

It was so beautiful day today. I liked it so much except hay fever...
I felt I should go out anyway.





I decided to try Kanogawa main stream today. It was looked good condition!


Contrary to my expectation, the river was silent, even there were good hatches(cranefly, mayfly).

So I gave there up and went to M-River as a branch of Kanogawa river.



It was good excersize for me.




I got several baby Amago trout. They are so tiny but pretty one.
I would like to see you again when you became groundfather.

Oshino; first fishing trip '08

Since I would spend this weekend alone, I planed to go fishing as first trip of this year.

The destination was Oshino! Needless to say, I was one of most famous spring creek in Japan.

My friend Curryman also had a time today, so we met there and did it together.


I got a first luck soon. This char (Iwana) refused CDC dun first. So I picked adult midge #20 pattern as next one. Then he sipped it.

Always first one gave me a pleasure, especially as it of this year!
Good start, Lance.

I had one more luck there, first hole. It was rainbow.



After that, I took pain with their smartness. Fish there were very clever. Even I had strike, it was very difficult to set a hook with them...

Curryman was doing better than me. I need to be get used to Oshino's speciality.

Totally it was good trip to me. I think I liked this place and come again soon.

Vernal Equinox Day; Kanogawa Preinspection

Unfortunately we had a little rain on Vernal Equinox Day, but my daughter would like to go outside. So we went out and headed for Kanogawa.

It was colored by the rain.

She was absorbed in playing her virtual fishing pole.

I was absorbed in finding mayflies!

It was first time to see the one having such a dark wing.







This seemed to be famous and key one, Crane fly 'Gaganbo'. I need to try tying this pattern to enjoy Kanogawa fly fishing this spring.

Look these mayflies on the surface, what a healthy river it is!
I realized this river's high potential anyway.

Find and enjoy snow

Her strong request made me take a drive to find snow that she would play with.

Fortunately it was so fine day, we left home after breakfast.

Numazu city which we live in is one of the warmest place in Japan. But about 30minites drive can take us high elevation, the skirts of Mt. Fuji.

Although the snow itself was a kind of hard because it was not fresh one, we were satisfied with it so much.

The buds always tell us the joy of coming spring. Which means I should prepare for the general fishing season's opening also.

MARABOU

It was my first time to get this famous material 'Marabou'. I was going to buy white one only, but my daughter strongly recommended the magenta one also to me. I believed it should give me a luck.

Maybe the time is coming soon, which I resume tying after long long interval. I hope so.

JIGSOW

This puzzle'd been kept unopened for long time. It was presented by my predecessor in Boise before he left.

My daughter gave me a chance to open and try it. We worked on it together for a while though, she lost interest in it soon...



I continued to do it little by little a day, and finished it after two weeks.I felt this puzzle was well designed. It expressed Boise's destinctive feature so well.

The problem was there was no space to display it in our house now...

MACAO S.A.R.

Since we had to work yesterday, today Sunday was only off for us.

Our plan was to visit Macao, which was located next to Zhuhai. We used the ferry to Macao. We could see the Macao's building over the inland sea as right pic.









The color of that sea was just muddy. We got to Macao land soon.

City Center was likely busy for preparation of the lunar new year.
This is the Year of the Rat in Chinese astrology.









I didn't know that the Historic Centre of Macao was one of the World Heritage.

This was the Facade of St Paul's Cathedral. It seemed that the rest was destroyed, accidentally, by fire.










According to the Macao guide site;

' On a hill and accessible by an escalator just east of the ruins of the Church of St Paul, Monte Fort was built by the Jesuits between 1617 and 1626 as part of the College of the Mother of God. Barracks and storehouses were designed to allow the fort to survive a two-year siege, but the cannons were fired only once: during the aborted attempt by the Dutch to invade Macau in 1622' .

Talking of 1622, it was that Hidetada was 2nd shogun of Tokugawa shogunate in Japan. I would like to know histrical background also at sightseeing.

Zhuhai(珠海); food

This time, let me introduce some of foods I tasted in Zhuhai.

1. Local dining of our company(Zhuhai Factory)

I used it for breakfast and lunch everyday. There were several menu for each and it varied a little bit everyday. I had to pay attention not to eat too much because of its volume!



One of Morning Menu








One of Lunch Menu

2. Dinner; We had a bunch of options!

Beijing Duck; One called it not Beijing Duck but Zhuhai Duck.

Si Chuan cuisine(四川料理); It was definitely hot though, I counldn't stop eating...

おこげのあんかけ; I couldn't translate it into English, forgive me.








Shanghai cuisine(上海料理); It was a kind of popular cuisine in China for Japanese, because its taste was just modelate, not too hot. I put the eel on the fried rice.

Zhuhai(珠海) part1

I've been to Zhuhai in China as business trip for 10 days .　It was my first visit to China.


It took about 5hours from Narita to Hong Kong airport. Then the train brought me to Ferry Terminal.

After about 80minuites ferry cruise, I got to Zhuhai.









The first night's resutaurant picked by my colleague was famous for 'Xiaolongbao(小籠包)' in Gongbei town. So juicy!















'Haizu' beer sounded a coined word of Zhuhai. Taste itself was light, and it made meals better.

'Gonbei' was just flourishing town. There was full of lots of energy.

Kite-flying

Since we missed the chance to do kite-flying during new year's holidays, we tried it today.

It was definitely her first experience, and she did it!









But she got lazy soon...

We had good time there anyway.

Gerbera

My wife arranged Gerbera in a small pot on the table.

Sometimes the flower gives us something relaxed. The language of this pink Gerbera seems to be 'noble beauty'. I was surprised there were several meanings about Gerbera by its color.

Rearrangement

We rearranged our room today.

These pix, precious memories give us much energy.

We especially like this phrase ' Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.'