This video contained a great Greenday music synched to it beautifully, but unfortunately Youtube forced me to remove the music for copyright problems. If you wanted the original version tell me directly please.
Paymaan.
Archive for the ‘Fishing’ Category
My summer fishing trip video clip
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009Fishing for Brown Trout, 2009!
Sunday, August 9th, 2009
looking west south, in the middle of lake (a point of soil is out of water) is where I was fishing last year, when water level was so low!
For 3rd year on, I decided to go to Laar lake at Damavand peak foot fishing for the rare brownies, yes these are really rare, at least in Iran, where this lake is the only lake holding them.
Smart Brown trouts!
Monday, June 16th, 20089th June 2008 was the beginning of the fishing season in the Laar reservoir at Laar dam, right at west of Damavand peak, and east of Tehran province, Iran. This year, I had the chance to go there to have a great adventure and fishing experience. The lake is native environment of an special species of fresh water fish; Brown trout. This kind of brown trout is called Red-Dot trout locally or in Farsi: “Khaal-Ghermez, خال قرمز”, because most of the fish are silver colored trouts with black and red dots on them (other varieties exist as well).
I tried to get some sleep the Sunday 8th June, as I didn’t get a good sleep for a few days before, thinking I needed to gather my strength and wake up very early and I was to drive about 90 Km to the Laar reservoir and Damavand peak.
Season beginning for brown trouts Laar lake!
Friday, June 6th, 2008
Hi everybody,
Monday 9th June 2008, the fishing season at Laar dam reservoir will start. I see people are planning to be there for brown trouts (native to Iran and specially to Laar river), so although I have been at Caspian shore just a few days ago, I am planning to be there, probably to also participate in the season competition.
I am not sure if I can really be prepared in 3 days, but everything of my tools are in my car’s trunk and I am really eager to start the season wih everybody else. I also had the opportunity to take some pictures during my past trip to the Caspian, including a few from the road, which is very beautiful in this time of the year.
I will try to put these on Google Earth as soon as I can, so everybody else enjoys.
Paymaan.
Fishing Basics: Know your fish!
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008I believe knowing the target species of fish is very important. Almost everything is related on the species and its behavior.
If you are fishing for fun, or just playing by the lake or river in a good day, you may use a single line of any type, a wooden or metal hook made by yourself and a branch of a tree and it may work, but here I want to share tips which can help us achieve better results, and have more fun or more fish for the dinner 
Fishing by rod and hook is actually tricking the fish to think she is reaching for food, hunting for it, finding it or anything else you like to name it. We want to fish to eat the bait or whatever we have on the hook so it traps himself and we catch it.
So first of all we have to know the feeding behavior.
- Some fish are visual feeders, they “look” for food, by their eyes I mean.
- Some sense the smell of the food rather than seeing it.
- Some are like filters, they eat whatever comes forward and filter out the waste and keep the food.
For visual feeders, we need baits which attract the fish visually, for those who smell, we need smelly food and bait, and for the third we can almost do nothing if we use hook instead of the net. Mullet is of the last type, ofcourse it too has some ways of catching which we can later talk about.
The other thing we have to know is that in what condition they start feeding. If you have everything ready and fish is not willing to eat or attack, then you will not catch it. I have stayed at a lake full of brown trouts for several hours without any fish even trying to bite the tons of different lures and bait I had with myself. Well don’t be scared, even if I didn’t catch anything, I enjoyed the lake side and the weather and the nature so much! that is the good thing about fishing.
Then in some ways, consider planning what size of fish you want to catch. The size really matters in this case, you have to have proper line, hook and rod, as well as proper reel.
As we go, you will learn more about this kind of fish behavior. I’ll try to share my knowledge of the some of fish so we can better decide to how fish for the target species.
As an start know that Sport fish like trout, bass and pike are all visual hunters and this is really good for us. Then species like carp, chub (white fish or Sefid Maahi as we say in Iran), catfish and surgeon are more likely to hunt for the smell of the food, smell attracts them more than the visuals, although not absolutly.
Because of this big difference, we normally take two kind of strategy for this two major groups.
More on this in the next post.
Paymaan.
What we need to know, to go Fishing?!
Monday, March 10th, 2008
For some long time I had nothing in my brain at all, what about some overflow but today I really felt like writing, and I am going to start some basic discussions about fishing. Just keep in mind I am an amateur myself with absolutely no catches at least during the year 2007, So I am trying to give hints on what I already know, and what I have studied and learned through web, Chasse Et Peche channel, and hints I have learned from experts.Ok, Enough of scaring you of lack of my expertise, let’s see what things an average fisherman needs to start fishing. Consider you can catch fish using almost nothing other than your hands or a piece of wooden hook and a line, but we are not talking of survival skills, we are talking about some kind of average sport fishing.
Tools you need include basic fishing tackle, things like:
- some kind of fishing rod, to be able to cast and handle your line and play/fight with fish.
- fishing line, of any suitable form
- hooks, again of a suitable form for our purpose
- some kind of reel to hold your line, sometimes to help you fight fish as well
- some bait to attract fish to bite the hook, normally fish food, lure, bread, etc. etc. but I have seen people catch huge pikes using AA batteries as bait!
- Something to use as weight, to keep your hook underwater, in some types of fishings. These are normally lead or other metallic weights, but every other heavy enough thing would be ok. Sometimes bait is heavy enough, sometimes you need reverse weight, I mean something to bring the bait up, some kind of floating weight. You may even use your friend as bait and weight for catching huge fish
- sometimes you need floats, these are tools to keep part of your line out of water, so the other part will stay on some specific depth of water.
Then you need some skills, some are more needed, some less, but be sure, the more you have these skills, it will be more professional, and it will be more fun!
- First of all, it is much better to know the fish species you are trying to catch. Every kind of fish has its own habits, diet, feeding time, strategy etc. etc.
- Ability to learn and tie some fishing knots. If you don’t know how to tie a hook to a line, your fish along your hook will escape easily. Even some kind of small fish are more powerful than knots you regularly know!
- If you want to practice Catch and Release, you have to know how to handle that species of fish. Carp stay a lot more alive outside water than trout. and then Catfish does much longer than the others! If you do it wrong, even if you release the fish, it may die
- Ability to choose suitable hook, rig, line, knot etc. for each species of fish, and to choose somehow what size of fish you plan to catch. Some fish have small mouthes, some have big ones (say Pikes, my favorite fish ). So you have to select the correct things.
So you see, while you can still put a hook on a line and put the line on a branch of tree and put a worm as bait on the hook and catch fish just like Pink Panther does, there are lot more to it. Every of those needs I mentioned have a huge variety to select from, and each are better for some specific fishings.
I will start to talk about them one by one in the following articles, and I hope you enjoy.
Paymaan.
