i saw in a post you were saying : "rain : no fish" , that is actually a wrong idea , they are easier to catch when it is raining.
as it is pretty easy with a traductor to post it , here is how to read the river and coming next , how to COMMUNICATE with the salmon (you can actually call him , and catch him with your hand:icon_thumbsup)
The fisherman who wants to take salmon must learn how to read the river. Each river being different and each pit from each river having a form which is clean for him, the fisherman must analyze each pit according to what he knows of the practices and the behaviors of salmon in order to locate it and to make it bite with its fly.
During its montaison, the salmon stops, for more or less long periods, in places of the river which are called pits. A pit is a species of depression, more or less strong, bed of the river. The depth of water and the slower speed of the current encourage salmon to rest there. It is rare to capture salmon when it moves between the pits. But when water is very high, it is formed ?temporary? pits between the usual pits and the salmon can stop there. It is thus of primary importance to be able to read the river, in order to first of all identify the pits and also to locate where the salmon can be held in the pit. Note that the salmons tend to be placed at the same places in the same pit.
As it before was said, there are no precise and sure rules, applicable to all the rivers, which make it possible to identify the pits. It sometimes happens to find pits which appear ideal but, for reasons which we are unaware of, do not interest salmon. We evaluate the pits from our external point of view; the salmon, in the pit, can feel currents or luminosity or any other factor which makes that it will not remain in this pit.
For the beginner, as for the experienced fisherman, a good bench mark to explore a river which one does not know, is the proud one with the other fishermen. However, do you ensure that those know the river, perhaps are exploring it? Generally, the good managers of rivers identify the pits so that the path which carries out to it arrives on batture, in the pit or a little higher. Therefore, by having an idea, based on our experiment, one can evaluate rather well how to fish a pit when one arrives there for the first time.
I speaks about a traditional pit when a pit seems to us meeting all the conditions to retain salmon. There is a rapid, upstream (in top) of the pit, a more or less major depression and finally, this depression goes up to form one ?waxed? (calmer stretch of water) downstream (in bottom) of the pit. After waxed, the current begins again to the next pit by having however some small lulls from time to time.
The pit in casting is frequently met in the rivers with salmons. Casting comprises a major depression and a flow moderated between two rapids. They are temporary places of rest. The salmon is never assured there but when water is high, it can there be delayed.
When the river turns much, it forms an elbow what is called. The batture located outside the elbow is often eroded by the action of the current. The salmon can to with it be held for a certain time but seek rather in waxed it that in the elbow.
Certain pits are found when that a tributary with a good flow joined the river or when a sizeable island of dimension divides the river into two currents. With the meeting of the currents, it is formed a pit ascribable to the erosion of the river.
In long the rapids, one finds calm water zones, they are boilers. The salmon rests there a few hours. It is often taking there; but it is difficult to fight because the danger which it ?takes the current? and descends it fast to any pace is always possible.
Certain obstacles like notches, falls, clusters of wood, etc waxed just upstream or just downstream. The salmons can stop temporarily upstream but downstream, the stays are often longer, as for example with the foot of the falls. However, this kind of pit is often difficult to fish and if you succeed in making bite a salmon, you will have to be very vigilant to save it.
The rocks of a sizeable size get a good place with salmon to station itself. When they are completely submerged though more difficult to see for the fisherman, they are quite as effective. The salmon is almost always placed on one or the other side of a rock, or ahead and sometimes above, but very seldom behind. It will be able to be also immobilized along the thread of water current made of each side of the rock.
You now know the forms which the pits can take. Let us look at the places, in a pit, where the salmon likes to be held. Here a simple system to help the beginners to easily locate the places of a pit where the salmon is generally taking; if one divides the pit into four, the salmons mordeurs are often placed at the first quarter and the third quarter of a pit.
The place where the salmon is held will depend much on the current velocity because this speed gets a support to him where it can rest by making less efforts. A little like a sailplane which floats on draughts hot, the salmon needs a particular current which will support it with less possible effort of its share. However, the current velocity is directly proportional to the level of water.
At the time of strong risings, the salmon tends to approach the banks, because the current is more moderate there. Then, when the level of water drops, the salmon moves towards the center and the upstream of the pit.
In period of heat wave, water is low and hot and the oxygen rate in water drops. The salmon will then tend to seek the oxygen which it needs in the rapids upstream for the pits, on arrival of a source of cold water, etc At this period, the salmons pass quickly in the bottom of the rivers. When the water flow is raised, the salmons tend to take their time in river. In several cases even, they must wait the periods of low water level to cross certain obstacles; if these conditions arise early in season, the salmons slip by quickly upstream of the rivers.
The salmon is generally more taking when the rain starts, after several days of dry time. The rain refreshes water and and thus the rate of oxygenation increases brews. It will tend to move, therefore to go up higher in the river, which makes it more taking. After the rain, when the level of water starts to drop, it will be always taking since it perhaps changed pit and that it is being accustomed to its new environment. It is not a question of the importance of the flows but well of their variations. A rise of water, even weak, can return the salmon mordor. The risings act like ?initiators? of rises and their influence is particularly sensitive on the captures at the time of the low water level which often corresponds to the medium and the end of the season of fishing. Let us note first of all that these two factors are closely related to the flow. When it rains, the flow increases and the temperature drops. The whole is of knowing to which of the two factors the salmon is most sensitive. It, unanimously is on the other hand recognized that the temperatures act by threshold; too much hot or too cold. Lastly, when the flows do not vary over a long period, in fact the temperatures start the activity of salmon. We found in the literature, many other studied factors. Thus, the lunar tides, phases, the wind, turbidity, ennuagement, the light and the chemical composition of water were the subject of some work. The experiment of the fishermen was also studied (in fact, only the abuses the day before were never taken in line of account!). Among all these factors, one finds the spring tides which seem to cause the large peaks of montaison. And the salmons show a clear preference for the twilight in their movements (except for the crossing of the obstacles).
If you want to increase your chances of capture, observe the variations of water levels, because everyone agrees for saying that, in the hierarchy of the factors, the flow comes very largely at the head. If you are during one time when the flow does not fluctuate, supervise the other factors such as the temperature and the coefficient of tide. Lastly, you can take account of the preference of salmon for the twilight but attention at the standard times. The fireflies are not very discrete!
The variation of the intensity of the luminosity influences the behavior of salmon. When the ambient light is strong, it will be held more deeply under water. Thus in the morning the salmon is more close to surface and more close to the edge and during the day, it will gain the center of the pit and will be held out of deeper water.
One of the most important factors for fishing with salmon is I' observation. The elements essential to observe are the luminosity of the day, the temperature and the color of water.
The color of the water of the rivers with salmons often lets to us detect with the naked eye the presence of salmon in a pit, when the luminosity allows it and that the sun helps us. It is here that the polarized glasses play a part of first order. You will thus learn how to locate the preferred places of salmon in the pit. To locate salmon, even with optimum conditions for sunning and polarized glasses, is not always easy. But, with the practice you will learn. Do not seek to see a beautiful entire salmon, rather seek to see the parts of salmon moving; the part of the most mobile salmon, it is its tail.
An important parameter is the way in which you approach the pit; check the orientation of the sun not to make shade in the pit and think of fishing side of the river of kind so that the salmon is not plugged by the sun when it takes your fly.
The salmon is recognized to jump on the surface and out of water. This behavior helps us to locate it in a pit and to evaluate its position. However, it is rare that a salmon bites after having carried out a jump. But its jump will indicate his presence and that of its fellow-members to you, because a salmon is seldom alone in a pit. A salmon which marsouine (goes up, splits the surface of water but does not jump) will be generally taking.
If you fish with the dry fly and that the salmon raises towards the fly without taking it, it is a sign which it will perhaps finish by the gober. It is necessary to leave time to salmon to take again its position and to launch again exactly to the same place. If, after some throws, the salmon repeats the same horse-gear, perhaps that and/or its speed it does not like the fly. Then change the size of the fly, its color or its presentation, in order to revive its interest.
The salmon can nervously agitate its fins at the time of the passage of the dry fly; certain salmons turn even on side. You must then remain on your guards, because the salmon can take the fly with the next throw. When you fish without to have located salmon, remain attentive, if salmons would appear in one way or another. In addition to allowing the localization of salmon, these signs will indicate that the salmon has a little interest for the fly. Follow your fly of the eyes constantly and choose a bench mark if the salmon appears, in order to launch again to the same place.
Wet, if the salmon comes towards the fly without taking it, wait during a few seconds until the salmon regains its station; then, present the fly in the same way as the preceding time. If the salmon did not take the fly after ten presentations, let it rest. Then take a bench mark on the shore or place a rock in water; for silk, it will be easy for you to note the length for which you will require when you start again to fish, if you took care to mark it or gain batture without embobiner. When you start again to fish, you will have to place yourselves at the same place and to use the same length of silk. It is always preferable not to make the first launch directly to the place where the salmon raised; starting from the bench mark on your silk, you will bring back your silk of approximately a meter and you will start to fish while gradually directing you towards the supposed place where the salmon is held. It may be that the salmon modified its position somewhat, which explains to it why precautions be taken.
This word, used only by the fishermen with the fly means that silk was suddenly tended for then becoming again soft. That is caused by a salmon which gripped the fly with its mouth without being made prick. Such a behavior of salmon very often means that it will return to take the fly, if it is presented to him again. If similar thing arrives to you, wait during a few seconds, time until the salmon reinstates its place of rest; most of the time, it will take the fly with the first following throw. If it does not take it, try to delude it by modifying your presentation with the fly. However, it is not assured that it will be interested second once by the fly if he were piqu? the first time, would be this only slightly.