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.

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.

Snir Stream (Hatzbani) and some dry fly action.

That morning I've started wading, catching some mix of small and largescale yellows on New Zealand rig, with Rhyacophilia Larva and PTN as a point fly.
Finally I got to a deep spot by the huge rock where good size fish was rising quite frequently.
First cast on a Elkhair Caddis brought me a smalscale as the fly touched the surface and no more action on that fly.
I have changed the fly to 18 or 20 size RAB, I bought in South Africa last year. At my second cast I had a very aggressive take and a my first descent largescale on dry fly is in the net, I caught some smaller ones later on.
At around 9:00 I decided it's time for coffee and breakfast, so back to the camp.
I have still a lot to learn about all around presentation of dries, there were loads of fish, but I've struggled to make them try my flies.