Weekend fishing

Last weekend was awesome

Friday, Saturday and Sunday was like; eat, sleep and fish. And I tell you, it gets exhausting after a while, lol. Being a whole day on a hot burning midday sun with rod in hand, or just looking at the rod tip and waiting for the characteristic rod tip shake that indicates fish bite takes its toll.

I’ve tried spinning, I’ve tried float fishing, I’ve tried ground fishing for some Sparidae, and I’ve tried eging. And Nothing, ok, almost nothing.
In these three days I mad two catches. One was common two-banded sea bream1 on the ground system. It took the bait right on clock when you can expect them to bite. In the evening, when sun sets down and twilight gets thicker is their time.

Second catch was a nice cuttlefish. This is also the only catch I photographed2.

 

Here are some info about the equipement and bait, and of course, the picture.

Date and time: 28.4.2012, 8:15pm
Location: Old pier in Barbariga3
Condtitions: Sunset, wind from the east, sea slightly wavy
Tide: on the pass from hight to low tide
Rod: MC Solpara 8’6″ 10-30g
Reel: Daiwa Caldia 2508, P-line 0.25mm mono
EGI: Yamashita Egi OH Q Live 2.5, SPN  decor

 

  1. Diplodus vulgaris [↩]
  2. or more precisely, my brother did [↩]
  3. tourist town near Fažana, Istra, Croatia [↩]

Duo Contest #8- Photo contest

Hi guys. New month again, and I think I don’t need to stress out what is time for again.

This time it’s simple. Just send photos of catches you made on DUO lures on their mail duocontest@gmail.com. Deadline is 28th April 5 PM.

And don’t forget as with previous contests, you have to be a fan of DUO on their Facebook page- www.facebook.com/DUOJPN.

Three lucky contestant will be chosen. Good luck!

 

Source: DUO Staff Blog

 

 

DUO Contest #7- Ask the designer

And here is the second contest of this month I’ve been mentioning in previous post on contest #6

Two days ago guys at Saltwater Rusty Memories made and published an interview with Mr. Adachi, the general manager and lead designer at DUO. So for the second contest they, at DUO, decided to urge their fans to send them even more questions for Mr. Adachi.

Here is what they say:

So this is what I would like you to do this time. Send any questions you might have for Mr. Adachi, the chief designer and general manager of DUO, to duocontest@gmail.com. The deadline is 30th March, 5 PM. Do not forget that you have to become a DUO fan at http://www.facebook.com/DUOJPN.

 

They will collect and answer the questions and publish them on the end of the contest. From these recieved questions they will choose three lucky winners who will be rewarded with a nice prize packages.

 

Source: DUO staff blog

 

In his element

One photo from Saturday’s sea bass fishing. It was very windy and water was clear, too clear for sea bass. We caught nothing. We didn’t even see a fish. But it was nice, catch or no catch.

 

My friend "Tinker" in his element

Trout season opening

With 1. st. of March, 2012 trout season opened.

So, last friday, me and my friend went to open the season on nearby river where it is allowed to fish trout with artificial baits. The start was not very promising, water was low, and trout were somehow lazy. So we got a few bites but most of them ended with fish falling off before we could reel it in. Usually we have many bites and better hook ratio.

 

Anyway, the day ended totally diferent from what we expected it would end. I caught this beautiful spawn coloured male californian trout you can see on the first picture. And my friend caught that hucho you can see on the other picture. And what makes these catches even more extraordinary is that they were caught on UL1 tackle.

 

 

Hucho was caught on Ultra light 1.80m 3-14g2, 0.22 mono, Mepps #2. And my trout was caught on Shimano Alivio 1.65m 1-11g, 25lb braid3 and #2 Mepps.

 

  1. Ultra light [↩]
  2. Shimano rod. I can’t remember which model [↩]
  3. yeah I know it’s way to strong for UL, I’ll buy some new braid soon [↩]