1st CR of the year 2011 and in a long time!

[marcjoshua]

Hello fellow flyers! its been a while since I've paid a visit to this forum. Having just recently decided to make a small return to fly fishing I decided to make a trip down to a local watering hole. ;D

Spotted these 2 lurking near some reed bushes barely 2 meters from shore and decided to ka-chiao them with an experimental design of mine. Turns out they took a big interest in it and here's the result!

The Lady


and Her man!


and to cap off a day full of tilapias after the two peacocks,



a 3.5lbs PACU! My first on fly! He took my hopper seconds after it hit the water surface! I count myself extremely lucky he didn't bite through the leader! He put up a spirited fight and had my reel screaming and me running after him for a bit! Finally subdued, i managed to grab the leader and haul him onto the bank! Heart racing and hand trembling I managed to get a rather poor picture of him with my mobile. Pardon the poor pictures. All fish were landed and released! I was using a 2wt TFO finesse series rod and an Okuma sierra reel. Leader was furled 12lb mono. Cheers guys! ;D ;D ;D

[layanglayang]

a nice pacu you got there, well done.
is this at lower seletar?

[marcjoshua]

No it isn't. Its a place I found nearby where I live.

[marcjoshua]

Hello flyers! I'm back with another CR! Today I was back at my watering hole and decided to play around with bread flies. So I started to burley the place with a loaf of bread. 3 to 4 slices later, tons of tilapia and several large shadows with smashing the bread floating on the surface. Even the koi were greedily mouthing the slivers of bread. Wanting not to waste time I immediately whipped out my bread fly. Small tilapias started hammering it bouncing if off the water's surface. Pacus were around too judging by the huge splashes they made when they came up for a mouthful of bread. Taking my eyes off the pacu frenzy and following my fly line I finally found my bread fly slowly being pushed out of the frenzy. Suddenly, the tilapia scattered. Thinking it was a large pacu, I stood still, eyes peeled for the flash of silver and red. Instead of a fearsome take, I saw a rounded mouth with rubbery lips come up and engulf the fly. As soon as the fish turned, I set the hook. Line started peeling of slowly but steadily. I immediately knew it was no pacu. wondering what it was, I slowly played the unknown fish in. He didn't run far but he was indeed heavy. At last he was approaching the bank, bit by bit I gained more line on the fish and finally I saw what my quarry was, a nice carp of 5.5 lbs. Not wanting to lose the fish so near to landing it, I seized my leader and dragged the carp unceremoniously up the bank where he thrashed a little. Boga-ed him and took some pictures before removing the fly and sending him back to his murky home. Whoooo, what a rush! My first carp on fly!



Several slices of bread and some casts later, my bread fly was once again taken and this time a knuckle battering run ensued. I never even got to look at what i hit as the fish threw the hook. But I strongly suspect it was a large pacu. The day ended with some small tilapias being landed and soon it got too dark to cast safely and thus ended today's fishing foray. Hope you've enjoyed reading this as much as I have writing it and reliving its moments.

Cheers and tight lines guys!

Marc

[f1point7]

enjoyed reading ur CR. bring a camera next time!

[marcjoshua]

Thanks mate! Will do. Hopefully I can expand my resume on fishes i've landed on fly.

[marcjoshua]

Hello fellow flyers I'm back with yet another CR! This time a different location, one well known and frequented by many other than myself. I was casting near some structure when a bleeding baiter cast right into my casting zone. His floater landing in the water made a rather splash and got me a little wet, cheesed off, I wanted to hook up his line and cut then d**n thing! Woah, this guy repeatedly cast in my direction and into my casting zone! At one point in time I was seriously contemplating throwing him into the water! Not only that, he barged straight into the area where my mother and younger sister were fishing! What a complete jerk! I mean seriously, their 2 girls for crying out loud! abandoning my first spot, I moved to where my mum and sis were fishing and tossed some lures around to see if I could entice some takes. The result was zero...

Bored and still infuriated by the stupid bugger still casting his absurdly large floater, I moved on along the shore line. Deciding to be a tad adventurous, I waded into the water so as to prevent my line from snagging onto the rocks and grass. A few casts with a nymph yielded some minuscule pbs about 2-3 inches in length. I couldn't be bothered to snap any pictures of them. So I switched to a hopper pattern I tied myself some days before. Its a tan elk hair hopper primarily based on Dave's hopper pattern. 1st cast beside the bank and a few strips later, POP! A small splash and I struck! The fish didn't take line at all being so small and seconds later, a little haruan was in my hands! ;D My first on fly! Elated, I quickly snapped 2 pics of it and promptly released it.




Moving further along the bank, I chanced upon another lure angler near a drain mouth and could see swirls following his lure path. Immediately, I switched to a wooly bugger to try and tempt the big mama hovering just 2 metres away from where I was standing, but to no avail, she got pissed of at me and swam off. So I changed to a charlie in white and proceeded to see if any other pbs were there. I was rewarded with 3 of the smaller ones but still they satisfied my craving for a fish on the end of my line. I only took pictures of one of them so here it is!



And with that, I ended my foray with my mother and sister beckoning for us to go home. All in all it was a pretty decent day!