Fishing Korea

I agree with Nomad.  It’s definitely picking up out there.  My wife and I went to the river early yesterday morning and were able to land seven before the gale force winds that Nomad mentioned below drove us away.  Leave it to Mother Nature to ruin an otherwise perfect day!  :)  I don’t have a scale (that works anyway), and didn’t have anything to measure the fish with either, but here are a few pics nonetheless:

Then, I was over in the Anjung-ri area this morning running errands when I noticed (quite surprisingly, since it was Sunday) that nobody was fishing in one of mine and Nomad’s favorite spots, so I couldn’t resist the urge to wet a line for a little bit.  I only fished for about an hour, had a couple of bites, and caught this one.  Again, I didn’t have a scale, but did have a tape measure in the truck this time and it measured pretty close to 17″.  All in all it was a pretty good weekend, and I hope the trend continues for a while.  

After reading some of the posts this morning, the fishing urge got the best of me. I quicky loaded up the car, threw the rugrat into the back seat, and headed off at about 1400. First stop was lake Idong. I drove up the South side of the lake just to take a peek. Casted a few senkos with no luck. Looks real full with plenty of water so far. So I decided to go up to the north side. I’m in the process of going over the hill on the dirt road and I notice it is getting a little slick. I get out and the road has a little more mush than I expected and the road down the other side was a little more steep than I remembered, So I decided not to try it since I was in my 1995 rear wheel drive Daewoo Prince. My daughter wanted to go over to the Hwy 82 pay lake to fish, because she usually does well on bluegill over there and the old man working there always gives her free ice cream. It was windy and nothing was biting over there either. I was digging through my tackle bag and I ran across my Berkley Gulp trout bait. I suddenly thought ‘I wonder?”

So we packed up and drove over to Sangjiland. There were about 10 other people troutfishing with fly rods and they were catching a few, but I could see the trout were very active cruising below the surface. I plopped down my 15,000 won (Rene was free) and we fished from about 1600 to 1730. The bait was Berkley Gulp in pink, orange and chartreuse all with speckled flakes.. They were really hitting the pink and orange well. In 90 minutes, we landed about 6 or 7. Lost another 6 or so right at the edge, and missed at least a dozen other strikes. We were definitely outfishing the others. I don’t think these fish had ever seen Gulp before. My daughter had on a real nice one about 5 pounds that ended up snapping her bluegill rod in half. We lost that one at the edge as well. That was a very action packed 90 minutes. My daughter was a little bummed out that we couldn’t keep the fish to eat.