2017-05-11

Dropped into Casting today to take a look, haven't been here in a long while.  This caught my eye. Meiho/Versus came out with a new size of Liquid Pack this year.  Perfect size for Gulp baby sardines, power isome etc ...


Here it is next to the medium sized one ...

Golden Week Adventure

Over Golden Week went out for a day of fishing. I dropped my wife off at work and headed to my first mark. I had planned my adventure the night before (thanks google maps!) 

Got to the first mark at about 7.00, rigged up my gekkabijin/caldia kit with a 2g Ecogear shirasu JH, opened the trusty Gulp container looking for some baby sardine 2" okiami glow but found a Tict gyopin 1.7" and figured I'd go with that. Saw some rocks and weeds in the water out ahead of me and figured it was a good spot, threw out and I was right! Bites right on the first cast but no hook ups. Anyway, kept trying and after a few misses I hooked into this little bugger here 






after him I was getting one after another for a good while. 





I had about 20 of them by the end in various sizes, but not much more 15cm. It was fun and time to move onto the next mark. 




Here, last year I had caught a nice sized grouper. Wanting the same I got out the Bluecurrent and Twinpower. Rigged up with a Texas rig, 5.3 bullet sinker, glass bead and Tick DF offset hook, M size with an Ecogear Rockmax 3". No luck, so after a while I figured I'd head onto the the next mark.


This was the same place from my previous report but at a higher tide. This produced a few snags and subsequent reties and frustration but eventually I got another scorpion (no pics, sorry). After a lull period figured I'd head to the next place, decided to skip point C and headed for point D as it was high tide and I had luck there before.


On the way stopped by a tackle shop and got myself some goodies (I had to, no other choice!)



These are photos from before, but either way this is where I ended up







No luck here again. After some time, I headed to the harbour near there, but again no luck. It was very windy and difficult to cast out a few grams of anything. Also, this is where I lost my brand new Tick mini caro in the damn rocks! Old folks here were fishing sabiki with floats on bait, catching aji one after another, so I changed styles wanting the same. But with what I had on hand I could only rig up a shoddy set up which produced no results. So after some time I headed home. 



It was a good overall. But I was ready to crack a cold one and crash!