This season on Jordan river.

The season never actually ended, the were no many rain this winter and we fished it right through.

The river is very low now, though fishing is very very good.

My Article in TCFF South African magazine.

I decided to try  and write about our flyfishing to my favouriteSouth African magazine, http://www.completeflyfisherman.co.za/.
They replied that they are posting it in September issue.
So here it is my first article ...ever.

Some more of Jordan river...

Now the season in on strong. Plenty bites, very strong fish, nice Sedge hatch in the evening.

Jordan Season, opening the 2013 season.

The road to the river is quiet bad, and we had to push the car a couple of times.
Maybe we should wait and so in Jimmy's 4WD....
The little bridge was washed away during the flood and the river is quiet high for the season.
Plenty Caddis larvae under rocks, but we had only little fish takes.
We only have had had half a dozen good takes...
I had a very good bite early in the morning, but after a long run the line snapped.

Fast Jordan River

So we arrived to our usual place at the fast part of Jordan. We have never fished here before the sunset.
The fish was really active, and plenty big fish, that we were not ready for.
So we continued in the morning, nice barbel is still there...

Another Saturday out to Jordan River.

So again we are at the faster part of Jordan, we now have Daniel who decided not to fish, but take photographs instead.
The weather got pretty fresh early in the morning. A cup of hot coffee with cardamon, and we are ready to go.
We fished the fast stream with Czech method.
 The bites came immediately, mostly taking the top brassie on 14 and 16 hook.
This is a first time I had lots of bites on heavy bigger nymph, Czech and Polish no 8 and 10.
6X tippet got snapped a couple of times, so I swapped it to 5X.
A t around 10:00 am the bites just stopped, it got very hot by then.
So we had our traditional cup of tea with fresh mint and we are on the way home.
Many thanks to Daniel, our young photographer.

Jordan River, the faster part.

So we decided to visit some faster places for the first time this year. 

We arrived just before the sunrise, so we decided to have a cup of coffee before we start.

Some fresh Costa Rica coffee gave us some energy to start with.

We started at the slower section, two of us were fishing fly, and Danny, Slava's son, was fishing lures, his fly rod is not finished yet.

I immediately catch two small scale barbel (Damascus Barbel) on Zak nymph.

Danny has managed a good size catfish, we didn't even think lives in such rapid water.

Later I have moved to faster water catching good size barbel one after another.

It was a great experience, the fish is very powerful.

Although the water was not clear at all the fish was taken only my smallest flies, a variation of Brassy size 16, with CDC I have learned from Murray at FFU. Size 16 green flashback nymph, size 14 prince.

Not even a bite on heavier nymphs disregarding the type and color. 

It was a great day out, we take some mint at the banks of the river and make tea.

We are on the way back.

Finally I got there to Jordan river

We found the place quite late in the morning, barbel were jumping all the time.

So we started to throw some flies, this time only smallscale barbel was taking, which is quite rare.

As usual at around 9:00 th water rises and we're on our way home...

Streams of north

This friday we've finally got to check the Jordan river stocks.

At the place we were supposed to wade, the water was too high and I even got a little water flown over in my waders.

We've seen no signs of fish at all this time.

It was strange, as usually it is the best season for our barbel this time of year.

Tho days later we went to check out some smaller stream in the north. It is heavilly used for irrigation and so the water is pretty low untill 9.00 am,and the flow is mild.

Lots of smalscale barbel taking zak nymph at the shallow places.

I have seen some biger ones at deeper places, but none of us did not manage to get hold of one untill the water had risen. And then it was just cut, not a single bite at all.

The weather acting strange this year, we had some rains in september which is very unusual, and the water is pretty high in the rivers. Maybe October will bring some bigger barbel.