TOYAMA; DAY 1

Curryman and I left for TOYAMA Fridays night. And It took 5.5h there. It was our only pity that our friend and supreme fishing guide ICHIGO couldn't join us this weekend.

I decided to tie the terrestrial pattern first by this young hopper.

There were many other fishermen...

Walking curryman with the supreme guide book in his right hand.

I could catch the first and second fish within several casts.
Looked like fantastic start!

Curryman's shooting.

#14 parachute was seemed to be good choice.

Nice catch!

My late third one, and it was the last fish in a daytime.

Evening, moved to another river.

#10 stimulator gave me this 33cm IWANA(my new record)!
Though it was not match the hatch, I was so glad to see him.

For this weekend's special fishing trip

Please give me a luck, Stimulator!

You can fish in the early morning, Lance

Left home 5:50 and started fishing 6:00.
What a nice location here.

One of today's purposes was to check the functionality of #10 stimulator,
which I tied first time this early morning.

Likely it wasn't bad, I think.
 I was very satisfied with this morning short fishing except one big mistake...

Lance, it is close to 8AM.
You have to be back to make breakfast for your honey, sweetie, and sugar.

OSANPO

Let's go walking around our home, sweeties.

AJISAI is good to see just now in the middle of rainy season.

Older daughter like this NEJIBANA.

In our garden, NANTEN's flower is beautiful.
We are looking forward to seeing red fruit this fall.

SAKURANBO

The cherry picking  is our annual event now.
We visited same farm as last year.

This year, my parents and my younger brother's family joined us. Big party.

There was a swallow's nest on the wall of the restaurant we had late lunch.
A parent bird looked like so busy, just like us taking care of two young daughter. Parents must be great for children.

Her original

'handmade' froggy must be happy in the rainy season.

Marmalade

My wife made the marmalade from some oranges. Yum-yum!

NYUBAI



The rainy season has just set in.

Small NANTEN tree in our garden is going to bear fruit.



The river runs through it, no matter how sad I am.

Upper section was just silent.

Move to the lower section which I've never seen any AMAGO trout.

But I could see some good ones there, even though I could catch baby only...

Hopefully I'll be back soon.

Dear my friend,

I bought your favorite picture book, 'UN JOUR, UN CHIEN' by Gabrielle Vincent. And now I knew the reason why you loved her book. I am still looking forward to reading your first picture book.
May you rest in peace.

Try & Error

My today's strategy was "To find new hole of KANOGAWA branch and to enjoy the evening of main stream". Especially I was expecting MONKAGE's hatch and rise for it around the main stream.

H-river was new branch stream for me.
Location was so nice with beautiful young green color!

MONKAGE was often seen there.

HIRATA's spinner was also seen(NAMIHIRATA?).

Baby AMAGO trout. Likely it was born by reproducing.

Try the new hole of O-river branch.

Countless OIKAWA attacked my dry fly.

Except MONKAGE, large stonefly was seen often there.

Said good bye to O-river and headed Z-river's new hole.

Countless hatchery small rainbow trout attacked my fly there.
Too many escapees, not good thing...

Moved to the main stream. There were several rises,
but it didn't seem to be AMAGO's... 

MONKAGE's hatch was poor at the mainstream this evening.
It was a kind of miscalculation, but I found many new findings today.

Pasta

I cooked the crabs with tomato cream sauce after long interval.
Looks not bad though, I'm not satisfied with its taste...

The latter half of GW,

we visited my parents' home.
Their kitchen garden got bigger than before.

Our annual event 'Digging HATAMI shellfish'

Digging itself is a kind of hard work using huge rake.

Not so bad. Looking forward to the dinner tomorrow.

KANOGAWA

main stream kept silence this time also.

Except this one. Moved to the branch river.

Super tiny AMAGO there.

Got the pretty one also.

27cm was maybe my AMAGO record?