Ugui / Japanese Dace
No hatch and no season — this is in the water every month of the year, so it's always a fair bet when nothing is showing on top.
Once a trout is big enough to take fish, it stops being an insect-eater in the way it was and becomes something closer to an ambush predator. Fry and small fish get pinned against margins, weed beds and shelves, and the takes are hard and unmistakable. Autumn is the classic window, when this year's fry are shoaling and the biggest fish in the water finally show themselves.
- East AsiaPresent
The big-scaled redfin ( Pseudaspius hakonensis ), also known as the Japanese dace and ugui (鯎 or 鵜喰), is a medium-sized Asian fish. First described by Albert Günther in 1877 as Leuciscus hakonensis , it was the type specimen of the genus Tribolodon , having been described again as Tribolodon punctatum by Henri Émile Sauvage when he established that genus in 1883. It is the most widely distributed of the Pseudaspius species, found over much of the Sea of Japan....