Handsome dog. Awesome river. In the bottom photo the water looks a little bit tea colored.
We have a few streams, at higher elevations, with tea colored water caused by tannins released from fallen leaves. But maybe the water in the Titovka River is clear, and the water only looks tea colored due to the shadows in the last photo or the color of the river bed…
River Teriberka. Here summer has not come yet. The level of water in the river is very high. The fish is not active, maybe because of the cold? +4 degrees Celsius. Quick photo and into the river, grow further.
Brrrrr. Summer must last only a couple of weeks before it starts tapering off into Autumn. And then quickly transition back into snowy winter.
I’m guessing you may have 20 ~ 22 hours of daylight each day at this time of year. Making it possible to get in more tenkara fishing during the short summer weather.
River Teriberka, today was a warm day + 10. I photographed only one trout. It is dangerous to take pictures by phone, standing in the middle of the river. One phone drowned last season on this river. Trout was released, but for the first time caught whitefish on tenkara. The trout was not caught, but instead of it the whitefish poured.
I’ve been out a couple of times recently to a creek close to home and have managed to catch quite a number of wild Coastal Cutthroat and hybrid Cutbow Trout. There have been a few chunky 9" to 11" fish that put a big bend in my Watershed 300 in the fast current and were a lot of fun, but these little guys were so pretty.
I live outside of a small town of just over 750 people. Because of this, we have to drive about 25 minutes to the closest city for shopping and just about anything else. The only reason I mention this is because there is a very nice river that flows through the city. I’ve often thought that it looks like it would hold fish. This morning things worked out and I headed over there.
I hooked the biggest one of the day in the head of this huge pool. On the second jump it was probably 1.5m in the air and my fly went one direction and the fish went another and disappeared.
This is just happiness! Near the beautiful river live 15,000 people, and you are alone on the river. Only you, good weather and fish! The dream of every fisherman.