Back in May I had put in a decent sized order over at amazon.co.jp for some new fishing gear and now I'm writing up about it :D ...

1.  Prox Holder Arm TE 600
2.  Shōei Flex Arm v.II Lock Type Titanium
3.  Prox aluminum rubber net gun metal
4.  Takamiya fish grip black&gold
5.  DRESS Universal Holder red stitching
6.  Brenious Rise Pop 65F OP-165N 07T: Chartreuse
7.  Takamiya Falken Down Shot 5.3g and 3.5g
8.  Ring Star Dream Master DM-750 tackle case x2
9.  NITEIZE S-Biner #0 purple

Here is the holder arm closer ...

The shaft is sturdy and not too heavy.  Collapsed it come in at 69cm and weighs 557gm and is made of 92% carbon.  The head features a standard threat for a net or a elbow bracket and the rubber fits snugly into the shaft.  It comes with a little allen wrench to adjust or remove the holder bracket.

Onto the elbow bracket and net ...

  

Nothing special to say about the elbow bracket other than the build quality seems legit, also it comes with a little rubber ring and clip to attach to the bottom of net to help weigh down the center.

The net frame is made from aluminum and the net itself is rubber meshing to avoid getting tangled on fish fins.

Assembled ...

The Takamiya fish grip and DRESS Universal Holder fit quite nicely together ...

Hope to get some decent chinu with this one.  It weighs 9g and is 65cm ...

next to a Tict leader spool for size comparison 

drop shot weights in 5.3g and 3.5g...

Ring Star small tackle case, one is a caro/float kit and the other a drop shot/haze kit ...

And lastly NITEIZE S-Biner #0, 500円 coin for size comparison.  These I use to attach leader spools and knot tool to my bag ...

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!

A bit of Sunday light game

Day off on the previous Sunday, so figured I'd head out for some light game fun and hopefully get the bluecurrent/twin power christened.  Had been out a couple times before but nothing doing.

So dropped the wife off at work and headed to a mark I had wanted to hit for quite some time just had never gotten around to it.  Got there about 7.00 in the morn, and got out on the rocks, open headland, set up my tackle:

Yamaga Blanks BlueCurrent 83/TZ

Shimano Twin Power 2500HGS

Sunline small-game PE-HG 0.4

Varivas light game leader 6lb

Chucked out, various spots.  Few seconds countdown, three/four upward twitches, rod tip at ~45°, hold it for a bit, for a curve fall.  Point the tip down parallel with the water and repeat.  Changed lures many times, different JG's with different SP's, 3/5/7g metals; threw em straight out, out around the rocks, the weeds, etc ... a bunch of very soft taps, try to strike but many times a-no-go.  Eventually got a damned pufferfish フグ/fugu (very first fish on the BlueCurrent, which just doesn't count cos them pufferfish, a bunch of assholes :D:D:D).  After, got a few mackies サバ/saba (not aji) about 10/12cm, just babies, so those don't count either :D. Other people got a nice sized scorpion アラカブ/arakabu, a greenling アイナメ/ainame, and a wrasse ベラ/bera.  Granted they were float fishing on bait, but figured I could still entice some on my light game lures, wanted to move over to the point they were fishing, but it was family day out, so didn't want to step on their ground. And then a bunch of shit ... got snagged 3, 4, 5 times in a couple hours, on the rocks, on the weeds, lost a brand new Jigpara 7g (got it a few hours before) on the first cast, finished off my Varivas leader.  Got fed up, moved down the road to a few other points.  Again, nothing doing, few taps but no hookups.

Few photos ...

Got hungry, so headed out to town and got myself some pork-bone ramen, very delicious.  After, stopped by a small tackle shop I had seen on the way to the ramen shop, asked for light game mark recommendations, and headed out to the closest spot the guy mentioned.  Again, bunch of people float/bait fishing, a few guys eging (squid).  Threw out a 3g iwashi coloured Arukazik metal (can see it in the picture), threw it out into the sea with a slow, low retrieve, right about the submerged rocks just in front of the breakwater hooked onto a scorpion アラカブ/arakabu ...

After this one, a few taps again on the line but again no hookups.  Right about now it was getting to low tide so figured I'd take a break and take a scout mission to a few of the other marks the guy at the tackle shop mentioned.  Eventually got to a very nice place (seen in the pictures) out by an abandoned hotel on the beach, rocky coast line.  Walked out a few hundred metres over very rocky ground, had to steady myself, trying to not slip and fall, got to a promising spot, set up and threw out my line.  It was very rocky and very weedy, also the current was quite strong, so I set up a texas rig with a 3g bullet sinker, red glass bead, offset hook 6#, and various SP's (Gulp, Breaden, Ecogear, Arukazik ...) these buggers they just shredded my SP's, every retrieve I had to change out the SP's.  Again got a puffer and eventually landed a decent, beautiful wrasse ...

After a bunch of taps but no hookups (got to get better on the reaction time :D:D:D), figured I'd call it a day, sun was going down and still had that walk/climb back to the car and didn't want to risk it in the dark, so headed out.  Snapped a few photos on the way back ...

All in all, was a good day out, even with all the frustration over losing a bunch of gear (over all lost three metals, almost an entire spool of leader, and a bunch of snaps, SP's, hooks and JG's).

Hope to get out to those marks again next time.

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