I went on a business trip to Hokkaido yesterday.

I love Hokkaido having a great beautiful natural scenery.

And then, I went fishing by rent-a-car after work. I drove for four hours to a river. I took a short nap befor the sun rises.

First picture is cherry salmon.

I don't have heavy rods, so I used 4 wt. travel rod with 4X tippett.

Second picture is sea-run whitespotted char.

Large trouts exit in Japan!

Oshino

I went Fly-Fishing to Oshino Yesterday. Oshino is located close to Mt. Fuji. Oshino is the village of the spring water. It has a spring creek that is a originated from the natural spring of the beautiful Mt. Fuji.

Oshino is a one of the famous river in Fly-Fisher in Japan. Former U.S. president Carter has been there to cast for a trout a long time ago.

There ara so many anglers in the limited area. So I'm sure that trouts definitely feel high pressure.

I could catch some trouts that aren't very good condition. It was dark evening after sun set when I caught Iwana-trout in second picture.

I caught the good rainbow trout in third picture in previous time. She isn't big trout but beautiful.

My Golden Week, 2009

Golden Week is a collection of four national holidays within seven days. It is one of Japan's busiest holiday season.

I went to The Shikoku district with my family at the begining of May. I went fishing at four rivers for two days. My wife's home town is in The Shikoku. So, I could go fishing alone.

This is an Amago-trout about 22cm in size.

It's a very beautiful !!

Natsui-River

I went to Natsui-River in Fukushima Pref. with my coworker yesterday.

I caught nine trouts. They are Seema. Seema is called Yamame in Japanese. Unlike Amago-trout, Yamame-trout don't has some red spot on the side of thier body. So Amago is called Red spotted masu trout in English.

RIKUGI-EN

I went to RIKUGI-EN to view the weeping cherry tree at the end of last month. RIKUGI-EN is historical garden with artificial hills and a large pond.

It was a very beautiful.

And then, It came to me that there were a lot of couples around me. I was jealouse!!

The end of fiscal year

Today is the end of fiscal year.
I went to language school this evening.
Wine was served at the school because I join the last class of the last day.
I felt mellow and then became to talk too much due to alcohol.
I enjoyed a very pleasant time with school mate.

Takahara-river

I went fishing to Takahara-river on last Saturday.

Takahara-river runs in Gifu Prefecture. Gifu Prefecture is in central Japan.

Takahara-river area has hot springs everywhere. So the river water temperature stay high in winter.

It was raining hard last Friday ,so the river was very cloudy and cold. It was very difficult condition.

Finally I caught two small trouts. This is Yamame-trout.