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Fishing trip in mid-March 2024.
First of all, I caught a large yamame trout the week before and tried to catch it at a spot I had missed, but I thought the water level had dropped and the fish had moved away, so the conditions weren't very good, so I searched in the rapids further downstream. I changed my point to a much lower area than usual to give it a try.
In fact, we had searched the downstream area many times in the early stages, but we had not received any response yet (the fisheries association had not stocked the fish, and there were no fish in the tributary areas either, perhaps because the amount of water released had decreased. (It seems like the number of fish that enter the main stream is decreasing year by year) However, I like to fish in large areas, so I searched in hopes of encountering one of the few fish.
As I was searching for it...a big fish suddenly appeared on the #14 CDC spinner I had reeled in the night before!
After that, I stretched out the tippet from 2 feet to 3 feet (about 15 feet in total length), changed the fly to a No. 16 striped kite, and tried again, and this time it came out big, but I only hit it lightly. No hooking. Since I could only see the backs of both of them, I was excited because I thought they were large yamame trout.
I decided to take on the challenge by contacting my fishing friends every time I took them apart to calm myself down, but my fishing friends advised me that it would be better to be careful and wait for the hatches to increase and the fish to start rising. However, due to the way the fish reacted, I felt like it would come out again after a while, so I replaced it with a CDC spinner number 14.
And then... it was the beginning of a fierce fight.
The fly is No. 14 and the tippet is 5X (No. 0.8).