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.

Yellowfish, Vaal River

So we finally got to Vaal river, thanks to Murray Pedder from Fly Fishers Unlimited.
We planned it for a couple of trips, but the weather was not right until this time.
The weather was perfect and we got to the river around 07:00 in the morning.
First casts just below the rapid brought a small Yellow.
The river is just beautiful, with monitor lizards jumping here and there to the water.
Murray took Ella to deeper part, and they have caught some very good size Mudfish.
More upstream they had a good Yellowfish.
We had some outstanding fishing throughout the day.
The largest Yellow was 2 kg.

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.

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...

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.