Redneck Fishin' ...

This one is MUCH overdue, but here goes anyway ... 

(The original date for this was 2017.09.11)

Sunday, drove my wife to work, and headed out to a spot I haven't been in a while. Got there about 10.00. Got out on to the rocks and set up my Yamaga and Twin Power, line is Sunline HG-PE 0.4, leader Tict 1.5 (7lb), on the end a 5.3g bullet sinker, green glass bead, Tict DF Hook M size and a Gulp Okiami glow colour 2".

Few casts out, not much action, but eventually I hooked onto this little fella here ...

After some casts but no response I decided to move down the road a bit and try another spot.  On my way back, driving down the damn narrow road, I spotted a few lure fishers with a nice sized grouper.  I had that spot on my mind already and so I thought might as well.  Same set up, but with an Ecogear Bug Ant orange.  A few casts and a few misses later, I finally hooked into something decent.  It was a scorpion, after that I managed another one.

Some time passed with not much going on.  Moved on again, hitting the docks this time.  Got out the Gekka with Caldia 2000.  Drop shot this time, size 7 hook with a 5.3g weight on the bottom.  Managed to get a new species, quite small and unidentifiable, unfortunately I managed to unhook it and drop it back into the sea without taking a picture, now I'll never know.  After this, I headed to the near by tackle shop and got some more Gulp, as I had ran out. 

From the tackle shop I had one place in mind but on the way, a little spot caught my attention out the corner of my eye and I felt I needed to stop. 

Back on the Yamaga, first cast out was some tugs on the line but no hook up.  I was still using Tict M size DF hooks, with Gulp okiami glow.  Eventually managed some puffers, annoying little buggers but quite the fighters.  And after that it came, a fish a chuck. Only little ones, but still on the light gear quite some fun. 

That's what I love about LRFing, even tiddlers are sport!  After about an hour, hour-and-half a friend called me and said we should meet up at the bar down the road, I figured it was time to go.  Was driving so a  no go on a beer or two but I did have some very nice jerk chicken.  I was happy both in fish and in stomach, but I got back home to this ...

A few goodies from Fukuoka

Had to go into the airport for renewing my visa, once that was done with had some time on my hands and know of a couple tackle shops nearby so figured I'd stick my head in.

The first one is called blue water house ブルーウォーターハウス and is located about a 10~15 min walk from the Fukuoka airport international terminal, here is the location ...



A decent shop and a nice size, but unless you are looking for bass gear, which the store is just packed full of, or heavier game like tairaba タイラバ or jigging ジギング there's not too much of a selection in other styles of fishing.  Anyway, picked up a couple things ...

some Decoy デコイ offset hooks size 8 and an Oft オフト spiral cord for attaching my fish grip to my bag so it's handy to use and I don't lose it :D:D:D.


The second shop was casting キャスティング which it's a favorite of mine, it's a chain and has many locations around Japan.  Here it is on maps ...




Had a longer browse in this one. A very great light game section with lots of soft plastics and jigheads.  A large selection of Tict ティクト products. Here's what I picked up for myself ...

(from top left) a Pazdesign パズデザイン spiral cord, a Sunline サンライン line cutter, 34 driver head 1.5g jig-heads, 34 Chimerabait 2.0" ムラギン purple/gold worms, two packs of Tict ティクト, DF Hook offset hooks, in S & M sizes, ティクト Light Game Shock Leader in 1.5号 (7lb) 30m, and a Tict ティクト Guide Through pick for easy and quick line threading through rod guides (oh and also a Tict ティクト decal featuring a mebaru メバル, not pictured).

Will later post my thoughts on these items.  I especially want to try out the shock leader.  So far my favourite has been Varivas バリバス Light Game Shock Leader.

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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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