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Wild Water Adventures part 34.
A Return to the Land of Sturgeons and Salmons part 2. – Sal-mon-day
Day 3
Your right arm is here near your body, and only the left one puts the line like this.
You must hold down the rod like this, close to the surface of the water, when you completed this movement the rod remains here, it comes here on the side, it starts to rise form here, gets faster and flies straight ahead.
You have to wait until the line forms a loop that we call "D loop" because of its shape, this is the time when it fills the rod up for the cast.
This was the dangerous movement.
I will have to put on my glasses! By all means, yes!
First, you raise the line, make an X, a triangle, and then it can go ahead.
And so you just let it drift along and follow the line with the rod.
If you feel a hit, or a pull on the line you strike moderately.
We continue our Canadian wild water fishing, and getting to know knew methods on the Harison River with the help of our friend István File.
After the early morning arrival, based on the suggestion of István, we started the day with fly fishing.
This was a totally new, absolutely alien method for both of us, but we jumped into it enthusiastically.
My enthusiasm declined quite early,
but Zoli is still trying to pursue fish with the same zeal, as when he started.
István, what fish are most common in this period of the year?
At this moment all five main Pacific salmon species can be found in this river.
we can catch Chum, Coho, Pink, Sockeye and if we will have some luck Chinook,
Isn't the water too cold, or isn't this period is too late already for the salmon to swim up in the rivers to spawn?
No, cooler water is suitable for salmon, especially when it comes too spawning. They die in hot, more than 21 Celsius degree water.
I see, so that is why they come up in this time of the year. That's why they come up so late, yes.
These fish are simply wonderful that live in this fantastic environment, in this drifting water, and basically swam between our legs,
but there is one thing that is perhaps even more important than this, namely by using a method which is close to my heart,
I could hold my first wonderful salmon in my hands relatively fast.
It is unbelievable how powerful these fish are.
Oh my Gosh! Wow how huge teeth it has. It has just started to grow its teeth.
It has just started? Hasn't it already finished spawning? No, this one hasn't finished it yet, it will be even bigger.
Will its teeth be bigger or the fish itself?
Both. The fish's back will grow bigger, it will be humpy a little bit.
This teeth can bite you very hard. Its bite is worse than a pike's bite.
One of them bit my finger last year, it tore my skin all apart.
Behold, here is a wonderful Chum salmon from the Harrison River which I managed to catch with the floating method.
It seems that this technique has been more effective so far, or at least for me, than fly fishing.
This fish is very interesting, it is pure muscle, and look how big teeth it has.
I will release it immediately so that it can fulfill its job. Thank you!
No matter it doesn't seem so, I really pull it indeed!
Well the rod is bending. If it wants to pull the line, it can do it!
Zoli is still practicing fly fishing persistently further, and it seems that he is doing it successfully.
Finally he has hooked a wonderful fish. We are curiously waiting to find out how big it is.
Nice! You are very good!
Zoli, come, come over here slowly. It was thinking about it differently...
This is insane, this is insane! I don't know what I am doing!!!
Zoltán P., under-aged, is pulling its first Chum salmon in Canada.
It is fantastic what this tackle is capable of!
I am fishing here on a shallower place, and I can feel it, as the bait is jumping around above the bottom.
This rod is like a very good light feeder at home.
I can feel the fish's every reaction and every movement. It is bending like crazy!
István, for me, as a European lake-fisherman, this curvature of the rod is a little bit scary. Is this normal by the way?
It is absolutely normal, this is what it must look like. This how it should be. I enjoy it pretty much, thus…
Try to raise its head out of the water a little bit. Alright, let's try to give it a breath of fresh air.
I cannot raise its head out any higher than this. The hook is there in the corner of its mouth. Well, now you are jumping in vain.
The hook has come out of its mouth already. Yeah the hook came out.
This fly fishing is fantastic, especially when it is so successful,
and when one can catch such perfect, muscular torpedoes with it like this one.
It is very interesting an unusual for me but, well, you have to take a look around and you will realize that nothing is similar to the situation in Hungary.
Wonderful! It won't get a kiss from me, because it has such huge teeth!
I thank this fantastic experience to this wonderful fish, it seems that I got hooked on fly fishing, literally.
This fishing method grabbed me, so I will continue it in the future. Have a nice journey, have a nice spawning!
Listen, there is a horrible amount of fish here?!
And this is only the beginning, they are just about to come up in larger quantities.
This situation is going to get even better? In the next two or three weeks.
Are the ones we saw here near the shore spawning? Yes, here near the shore these are all spawning.
Those fish that are further away from the shore, they are wandering upstream, they are still moving.
And why are they eating then? They are not eating, this fly imitates a caviar.
Fish are trying to destroy other fish's caviar… Really? In order to create better conditions for their own spawns,
and they are so aggressive that they kill each other's spawns. This is why we are using so small flies that are similar to caviar.
Two at the same time! A double! Double dynamite.
Listen, now I understand why everybody comes fishing to Canada,
because the fish density that can be found here is unbelievable in Europe, isn't it Zoli?
Can this be true? As far as I know, not.
Or it is only me who hasn't found that place yet, but there's no such place close to our country that is for sure.
The biggest Chum salmon of our tour is in the net.
Well, I believe that this is around 10 kilograms. It is huge, Oh my Gosh!
It is not even easy to hold this huge, powerful fish. Wow, how big teeth it has, nice.
I am holding one of the most beautiful and most special fish of my life in my hands, and it is a great happiness for us that I can release it as soon as possible.
It swam away wonderfully.
Be careful with this, never place your hand close to its mouth. It has sharp and pointed teeth.
Oh, Pityu, this was very good net handling!
I caught this wonderful fish with this tiny little fly. Oh my Gosh!
You know, this imitates fish caviar, the caviar that drifts in the water.
This is wonderful, wonderful! Have a nice journey!
Hah! We got this one as well!
We are going to have a little break, since we have been fishing continuously since morning.
This type of fishing is tiring indeed. Especially yours, the fly fishing method. I am astonished that you have born it for so long by the way.
We stopped basically only for a lunch break now, and this provides a great chance for us,
to show you those tackle that we use here successfully.
I am using a float rig, the soul of which is a 25 gram weight-bearing capacity float, which was made of an extremely hard foam material.
There is a sliding lead weight under this, a swivel, and an approximately 40 cm long transparent leader line,
on the end of which there is a little weighted jig head, and a fly.
I am fishing with a Spey rod, which is a two-hand fly fishing rod, with a suitable reel, and a thick, strong line and a pink fly.
This is a different kind of salmon.
This is another wonderful salmon. Its name is Sockeye. It is a wonderful, red-brown colored fish and the bait is the pink jig again.
Let's see, Zoli is in action too in the meantime.
This is a good one!
Zoli, take the hook out of its mouth already. Just reach into its mouth, it won't hurt.
I think I would like to leave it to you. Let's see… it is turned into here.
István is helping me, because I don't see it. It will bite our nose off soon.
It is unbelievable how much power remains in this wonderful fish even after a very intense and powerful playing.
Well, it is not a surprise that they can swim through even the wildest rapids. It would like to hurry up back to its spawning spot.
This is the first fly fishing experience in my life and I could start it with salmon fishing,
though I made all possible mistakes in the first few hours that a beginner fly fisherman can.
I was standing too deep in the water because of my huge enthusiasm,
thus I was fishing in such spots that were too deep,
and my bait wasn't drifting in the right water-level. This was my first mistake.
My second mistake was that I was casting, casting, casting for too long but I did not have a bite.
I did not checked my hook whether there was any problem with it or that whether it was positioned in the right way.
Our guide, István advised me to check my hook, and that was when I realized that my hook was all twisted around the hook line.
Thus the hook wasn't positioned parallel, but there was a tangled piece of line in the middle of the hook, so that was why it was positioned in the wrong way in the water.
As soon as I solved these problems, I stood at the suitable spot,
…I am sorry, but I am playing a fish in the meanwhile… so I stood to the right spot, I drifted the bait in the right way,
and everything was OK with the hook too, bites and fish started to come Immediately.
And as you can see it, when one gains a little routine, this technique can be really successfully.
After the hooking of the fish, and after I hold my ground against the first few big runs, I must go out near the shore,
because the current of the river is so powerful that fish could utilize it so much that we wouldn't be able to catch them eventually.
I have to reverse very carefully, because the current could take me away very easily.
Look István, look István, jump on it!
I cannot reach it!!! It can see you well too! No matter how beautiful boy you are it does not want to go to you!
I got it! This is a pleasant pain indeed!
Ah how wonderful!
After several hundreds of casts and drifts, eventually the pieces come together here as well namely that success depends on small details.
It is absolutely not all the same how I drift this simple end rig.
If I let it drift too fast that isn't good. But if I hold it back all the time that isn't good either.
The ideal position is when I leave it drifting further, but stop it once in a while, or twitch it sometimes.
This is when I can attract most of the bites, and by drifting the bait very sensitively, I can finally direct the bait into fish's mouth.
Perhaps this it is also thanks to this that apart from one exception, all fish took the bait with vehement bites.
Here is another fish. According to István, our guide, it is absolutely normal that a spawning male salmon looks like this.
I release it quickly so that he could do its job.
István, you know what I like most about these fish apart from that they are extremely strong?
There aren't two identical colored, two identical patterned ones. They are very special and nice fish.
Ah, that's it. I believe this was enough for today already. István, thank you for the experience. Nice fish, you are welcome!
Zoli direct it out to the bay.
István look at this, wonderful hookset, just like this, here…
Like a wonderful piercing.
This one's color is very nice, it's similar to the one that Gabi caught!
This is a perfect ending. Look, what a hookset.
The closing chord of today is a wonderful fish.
Oh my Gosh...
Swim!!!
I believe that we have been through one of the most tiring and busiest day of our fishing career.
Zoli, what do you think? I am tired both physically and mentally.
Well, we had an extraordinary experience today that is for sure!
And our Canadian tour is not over yet.
Pityu, I have worked so much. Don't you have a glass of brandy with you by chance?
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