HATAMI gathering on Children's Day

Do you know the shellfish named 'HATAMI'? For me it was first time to hear that.

It seems to be bigger than ASARI clam and be available around the Sea of Enshu. Its season sounds like just now, so we planed to go HATAMI gathering today. Today as Children's Day is just best day for that, because of its the spring tide.

The secret hole was not far from my parents' house. It took about 15min. only. In spite of a little rain, there were many people for the same purpose.

I was completely soaked through to the skin, but our harvest was definitely more than we expected!!

We have to wait for a few days until all the grain of sand will be out from the shellfish.

This was a kind of surprise gift. We are going to cook it tomorrow morning into the miso soup.

Cherry & GASAGASA

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The cherry tree in front of my grandma's house bore lots of fruits this year.











My aunt helped her to pick them. They tasted fine with just a little sour.











My father took us to the upper Kikugawa River.










By 'GASAGASA' catching, we caught them.

Especially one of dragonfly's nymph was so huge. It might be Oniyanma's one.

Nostalgic G.W.

Our plan of this weekend, called 'Golden Week', was to visit my parents' house in KIKUGAWA city.

The morning of departure, I found this mayfly on the glass of my car. Not sure of its detail species though, I speculates that it might be one of Futaba family by its number of tail, wing and body size, about 10mm. If you have any suggestion, please let me know.

One of my hometown's characteristics is tea plantations. It reminds me of my old memory, younger days.

'Ruby' is her name, she likely likes her.

Replanning of streets took some of my memories away. But it seems to be giving new one to us now.

MORPHO Marabou and Spinner

Just for change, these Marabou were tonight's starter for me. It likely would be effective for the sight nymphing at Oshino.

Just a little bit MORPHO were blended also.





This spinner's wing was also consist of MORPHO & CDC.

It looked like a little heavy, so maybe I should cut some CDC before using.

K.F.S on Showa Day

I've been thinking where should we go to meet her request. She would like to catch her first fish.

I picked KFS; Kakitagawa Fish Story, for it. Even though it was just fish pond, famous that its fish was so healthy and beautiful.

She mainly tried Lure Fishing today there. I had responsibility for the casting and hooking, and she did it by herself after the fish was hooked.

She was so excited to do reeling in the fish!

The size of fish we caught were close to 40cm(16inches) as average.

She was doing well for fly fishing's reeling also.

Just two hours fishing gave us almost two-digit fish, and we kept two* for our dinner today. *Two were caught by Lure, we couldn't keep any fish by fly fishing as its regulations.

The left lower pic was taken by her, today's biggest one , approximately 50cm(20inch) over.

We had good time on Showa Day holiday today anyway.

Z-Lon & MORPHO

I went to the fly shop to get the Z-Lon as the material of the shuck. Then I found the 'MORPHO fiber' accidentally.

Yeah, I was just an impulse buyer...

I am expecting its unique showing color. Let me have a great luck, please!

How about rainy day?; 4th trip to Oshino

When I found that it would be rainy today, a bright idea occurred to me.

There was a rumor which Baetis 'Kokagerou' liked rainy day for its hatch, so I would like to just make sure of it today.

We had intermittent showers today, totally it was a kind of comfortable.

Contrary to my expectation, it was just usual Oshino, which meant there were a few hatches and rises, not easy...

#20 Compara dun, Crippled dun pattern was likely got their attention.

One of great findings was my CDC Onashi pattern was attacked several times!







On the other hand, I couldn't see any Ohkuma adult and #14 Crippled one didn't work at all today. Maybe it's already gone.












It was only 3hours fishing today though, I think I had good time there today also.

Double O

Tonight's theme is W.O., Ohkuma & Onashi.

It is still trial, but not so bad.

Especially for crippled dun, it is getting better than the previous one.

I would like to try the parachute one next.

Endless cycle...

Fishing, tying, fishing, and tying again...

This endless cycle has been my favorite recently, like a kind of drug...

And as you know, the alcohol accelerates every fun!

They are my first 'Gaganbo'(crane fly) pattern. I still have problem to attach their legs, brown C.D.C..

Floating nymph, I hope they'll work good also.

River Watching; Ohmi River

This weekend, my daughter and I had spent most of a day together.

Today we had a kind of short trip with our lunch which we made by ourselves.

The destination was 'Banjo fall' and 'Ohmi river', which were part of Kano river basin.

After we arrived the fall, we took our lunch together. It was so good for us.

Even though it was getting a little cloudy, the fall itself was so overwhelming.

On the way our home, we parked our car by the Ohmi river to see what was going on and have a snack time.

Its stream itself looked so fascinated for me from fisherman's standpoint. But we saw no rise there.

It unlikely there was many hatches. I'm not sure that I'll come there again or not.

Ohkuma & Onashi; 3rd trip to Oshino

This was my new weapon today. I didn't know that the wader was not necessary here Oshino.











It was very sunny, a kind of hot today.

I got several strike for #20 compara dun, but missed them...

And I did see 'Ohkuma' mayfly's flying around 1 o'clock. So I tied #14 Crippled dun. Then the big boy sipped it with big mouse! But he wasn't hooked by me... Boy! I missed one more good fish also...

However, their reaction for my fly gave me a kind of confidence.







This stonefly is called 'Onashi ' in Japan.

It might be one of reasons why I took great pain for afternoon fishing today that I didn't have its fly pattern.

At the evening, I had several luck, one by #16 CDC dun, others by #18 Adams parachute.






Everytime I came to Oshino, I learned a lot of things.

I would like to try next theme 'Ohkuma' and 'Onashi' ASAP. It depends on...

For tomorrow

Today also, I am tying tying tying...

The good news which I can take tomorrow off and go Oshino is one of my strong motivation for that.

For this just normal CDC dun, I tried to make its tail beautiful. I think it is not bad.





This Compara dun looks better than yesterday's one.

I hope I'll get a luck with them tomorrow.

Soft Spring

Recently I've been feeling that the spring in Japan was just 'Soft'. The sunshine, wind and air itself, everything looked soft to me. I never felt like that in Idaho US.

I like this season except 'hay fever'...

We came to M_river just for watching the river today.

I could see some aquatic insects, but couldn't see any fish there.

My first tying after China trip was 'Compara dun' #16~#20.

These were my first Floating nymphs.

Tying itself was not so easy, but gave me a lot of fun every time. Maybe it was sometimes more interesting than actual fly fishing itself.

Zhuhai(珠海) again

It was my 2nd visit to Zhuhai for business this time.

The weather had been not good, cloudy or a little rainy through the week, except weekend.

I saw several fishermen at the harbor in Hong Kong.

His performance was interesting at '老四川' restaurant

Tea itself was sweet one and it likely matched hot tasted food there.

Since it was hard trip this time, I took smaller number of pix than usual.

This '牛筋月南湯麺' was my most favorite one in this trip. And, that is it...