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Post by mtshark on Jun 10, 2005 17:27:20 GMT 8
Hi Huns, Your information about flyfishing for carps are great work! Especially, you are getting them on flies instead of offering them a piece of bread. Many anglers around the world always normally give the carp a pass and target other fish. From my very own experience, I totally agree with you about having good stamina to battle them. Their determination and power beat the living day lights out of most anglers when they happened to foul hook one by chance like me. Once they make that run, the reel could keep on coughing out line for as long as 20s. If you have a lousy drag or malfunctioning drag, you are busted and you would feel absolutely naked like never before. By the way, I have a friend who happened to hook up carps using little spoons on a spinning rod. He was targeting largemouth bass but somehow, the carp took the spoon! It took him more than 30mins to land that fellow, a 20lbs monster! Not just once, but twice he caught carp on spoons... Do you have such an experience or do you happen to have friends who got carps on spoons? This is really interesting as if they take spoons, they might also take flash clousers... Keep you reports coming!  |
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Post by AnglerAdventurer on Jun 10, 2005 17:51:18 GMT 8
Thanks Guys, am glad you find the reading interesting..........
Sharkie, you right about the Carps when they start peeling lines off your reel.........the feeling of "self Shiokness"....... it's like you're lit up by a thousand watts of life!
I haven't the opportunity to land one on spoon yet..... but I did land a few on lures, ie; shallow Fat-rap, minnows and spinners while fishing in Malaysia(one of the pond) and here in Japan...... all hits were on sloooow retrieve. Hey, the Carps here also feed on berries...... when fell in the drink, it's cocktail party time for the Carps!
Cheers,
Huns.
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Post by Qwek on Jun 10, 2005 22:16:33 GMT 8
Huns san,
Pity there's no carps up at Ah Chong's place. But the kelahs better are waiting for you none the less.
See you soon, brother.
Cheers
Qwek
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Post by AnglerAdventurer on Dec 13, 2005 10:36:43 GMT 8
Fly Fishing Festa 2005Last weekend, I got an invitation to the Fly Fishing Festa 2005 at Yokohama Bay-side. I jumped on the kind offer though it was far away from my home. Hop on the express train that took me 40 mins of traveling time to get to the exhibition hall. For the year 2006, there wasn't much new products being revealed at this FFF, be it Japanese or from Overseas. I will just briefly highlight some of the products that I came across. Fly Rods. R.L. Winston - A new series of rods for the Japan market. Vapor rods come in 3wt - 10wt and these are Fast action rods. As for Ascent rods, they come in 3wt - 8wt, a Very Fast action rods. This two rods come in 4pc.  Orvis - The new Zero Gravity fly rods, from 4wt - 9wt of Mid to Tip Flex with 4pc sections. I must say, the 4wt rod is very light and it has a unique reel seat.  Japanese Bamboo Fly rods.   This bamboo rod is from Awol, H. Kitao Rod Maker. Customized for "Tiger Special 2005 V" the Hanshin Tigers Baseball Team of Osaka that won this year's championship.  The Jupiter Link bamboo rod. Take a look at the handle and reel seat.......... they're all made from bamboo!  Check out these reel seats!    The Bamboo work bench and tools. Fly Reels.   The RST Beryll 2 from Germany.  The Varivas.  The new Freestone LA reel from Shimano.  The Marryat Plus reel.  The Lamson Litespeed 3.5 series 1 reel. Vision came out with afew new models for 2006 - The Vision XLB, Vision GT, Vision Antireverse & Vision Koma(Black). Also a new color of Orange is out for the Vision XLA. Fly Lines. Some new lines being introduced by SA /3M are,  Expert Distance from Mastery Series Floating line. If I'm not mistaken, the previous XXD line is being replaced by this. The new Wet Tip Express and the Custom tip Express lines.  Redfish from the Mastery Series Saltwater line. The Tropic Express and the Bluewater Express Sinking tip lines. Fly Hooks. TMC came out a new hook - TMC 108SP-BL. It has a "Dolphin Shank" meant for Dry Fly, Emerger & Nymph. Varivas also came out with some new hooks for 2006.  The C & F Design store.  The Daiwa Fly store.  The Shimano Freestone Fly store.  Fly casting platform for try-outs. These are just some of the products that were there...... Huns.
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Post by alberto on Dec 13, 2005 12:38:55 GMT 8
Hi Huns, Awesome pics. If sales are permitted at these exhibitions, Platiniun card oso melt  Any nice glass rod from the Japs? regards Alberto |
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Post by AnglerAdventurer on Dec 13, 2005 12:58:57 GMT 8
Hi Alberto,
You are right about the melting cards, that's why I left mine at home. ;D
There are no new Glass rod models from the Japanese but 4 new models were out from Fenwick. They are the Yellow Glass II,
The 3wt, 3pcs of 6'3"
The 7wt, 3pcs of 6'11"
The 3wt, 5pcs of 6'6"
The 5wt, 5pcs of 7'9"
priced at 29,400yen and 30,450yen
Huns.
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Post by alberto on Dec 13, 2005 15:57:39 GMT 8
Hi Huns, I guess they are the same ones we saw at Sansui in Shinjuku. The reason that I did not go ahead with the purchase is that they were made in China and not Japan  Looking forward to catching up with u soon ;D regards Alberto |
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Post by Chee Yung on Dec 13, 2005 16:14:00 GMT 8
Melting cards and cane punishment! ;D ;D Thanks Huns, the cane pics are very nice  ... imagine an ugly watermark on cane becoming a beautiful grip  Ingenious! Cheers CY |
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Post by Admin on Dec 13, 2005 17:36:10 GMT 8
Awesome display.
Thanks Huns.
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Post by AnglerAdventurer on Dec 14, 2005 10:39:47 GMT 8
Hi Chee Yung & Billy,
You are most welcome........... by the way, Christmas is just round the corner........... if there's anything that you want/wish from the FFF, just let me know! Can always DHL or UPS over for you guys! ;D ;D ;D
Cheers,
Huns.
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Post by Admin on Dec 14, 2005 18:42:22 GMT 8
Hi Chee Yung & Billy, You are most welcome........... by the way, Christmas is just round the corner........... if there's anything that you want/wish from the FFF, just let me know! Can always DHL or UPS over for you guys! ;D ;D ;D Cheers, Huns. Thanks Huns. I had exceeded my budget.............   Very very tempting leh......... |
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Post by AnglerAdventurer on Aug 15, 2006 1:32:24 GMT 8
Summer Season.It's the Summer holiday season in Japan and my wife and I decided to take a long drive up North for a short Summer vacation at one of the Hot Spring Spa Resorts in Yamagata Prefecture. The drive along the Tohoku Expressway was smooth, covering about 500km within 4 hours.  Along the route, Paddy fields and Sunflowers covered the countryside landscape.   The Spa Resort sits just along the Mogamigawa (Mogami River). There are no trouts in this section of the river, only carps were seen feeding the shallow depths.   Mogamigawa When I spotted this insect outside of my hotel room window, knew I had with me the right ammo on this trip!  The first river I came to wet my fly line was at Hirosegawa (Hirose River), which flows between Yamagata and Miyagi Prefectures about 40km drive away from the Spa Resort.  Found a lot of trouts rising fastidiously in this long, slow, glassy currents. These are some of the flies I tied before embarking on this trout fly fishing trip............ chocolate candies for the trouts!   I have with me, CDC Duns dry-fly, Yellow CDC Sally dry-fly, CDC Royal dry-fly, Dying Caddis dry-fly, Cased Caddisfly Larvae (Limnephilidae) wet-fly, Orange Crust wet-fly and The Red Tag wet-fly. Through the many years of fly fishing in this part of the world, Japan's Freestone rivers, my observations the trouts in these streams feed more readily with gusto on CDC flies. On the Hirosegawa, I only managed to land Rainbow trouts. The Golden trouts were not feeding that aggressively, though I did hookup two but did not managed to land it.   A Yellow CDC Sally #16 dry-fly taken by the Rainbow   This 2kg Rainbow was taken on the Dying Caddis #16 dry-fly  This Rainbow was swimming beside the submerged rock and as I haul my Dying Caddis dry-fly to wards that direction, let it drift down a little as the trout gently rise to sip my fly. The next moment I felt my SCL 3wt rod jerking and my Bauer M.5 reel was peeling off lines. Thank god my Vanish 6lbs tippet hold!  As we walked back to wards our car after 3 hours of casting, stopped by to take some photos of these..........    Well, that ends my first day of fly fishing .................... To be continued............
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Post by mtshark on Aug 15, 2006 2:56:20 GMT 8
Hi Huns,
Nice report. It sure gets my dry fly fire up and firing...
Anyway, I will be over at the post office later in the day (if I could make it). Once I have it in the mail, I will inform you again.
Thank you for the report, cant wait to see more...
(faster lah...)
Kekekekeke
Regards.
Edward
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Post by alberto on Aug 15, 2006 8:52:40 GMT 8
Misi... emergency treatment quick quick... wan to die oredi after seeing Huns pics ;D ;D ;D
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Post by Qwek on Aug 17, 2006 11:42:32 GMT 8
Huns san, Beautiful pictures and CR, can't wait for part 2. btw, this plant look like Pakalolo Cheers Qwek |
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... imagine an ugly watermark on cane becoming a beautiful grip 
