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.

My first decent Largescale this season.

We were mainly catching largies this time, much less small scales.
The big one took just behind the stone in the main stream.
The star of the season now is a Jig nymph, that Murray Pedder of FFU has showed me.

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.

Saturday sea walk.

Weekend on Red Sea, Eilat

Just a short family weekend.
Friday morning about half an hour before the sunrise I came to local Marina. There was some predator activity going on. I set my 8 wt and a barracuda fly with metal wire. On a second cast someone just bit it off. While changing the fly, I tied olive Clouser, all the activity was gone. After a while of casting, a nice bite and a first trumpet fish landed. I had three more this morning. Next morning those trumpets were biting on nearly every cast. But no other species caught this time.

19 May the Seabass Saturday.

Last saturday the 19 May, we are out for a sea session.
It is a good seabass season this time of the year.
As we have heard from other guys the fish starts taking after the sun is up.
We decided to check out a piece of rocky beach next to Netanya.
So we had a cup of tea and started to walk.
Jimmy was fishing with spinning rod and topwater lures and I was fishing a fly.
We find the first current, I have started with tandem of olive clouser no.6 hook and a small BMS fly above it.
A good bite and first bass comes to visit.
We have tried to catch some bream, without much success.Many bream are present, but we could not convince them to take a fly.
On our end point is another good current, and the waves were starting to get a bit high to walk on the reef.
2 good size bass one after another take my olive clouser.
An we are on our way home.
This is One great day...

Bamboo Fly Rod by local master Jimmy.

Pictures by the campfire.

It was after it got dark, these guys came to visit our table.

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.

Foam Hopper

I was inspired by a fly I brought from South Africa, the original was tied by Murray Pedder from FFU.

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.