FISHING IN JAPAN!!!    

The Dorado (mahi mahi) fishing in Japan is AWESOME! After only a few hours, your arms are so tired from catching fish that you are more than ready to go home! This was my first trip, and I hooked and landed a 57" dorado. Light tackle with 15 pound test makes this a fishing trip you'll never forget!

A gorgeous 50" dorado that peeled off about 150 yards of 15 pound test, and 7-8 consecutive jumps. 35 minutes later and three botched gaff attempts later, here he is!

Squid fishing at night, something I never imagined I would do from the shore. Using a float about 9 feet above a 5" live aji, or horse mackerel with a special squid hook, you wait until your float goes down and stays down, then slowly pull back. Surprisingly, these squid can really pull back. These ranged from 1-3 pounds a piece.

Man fighting a very large tako, or octopus. He was using a bottom rig, with a dead horse mackerel on a single baitholder hook.

Shore fishing with a float and a single shrimp brings some interesting customers, such as this colorful reef fish and the parrot fish on the right.

To keep the fish out of the rocks, long rods, about 5.3 meters long, are used. These long rods have impressively limber actions, these are inner-line type models, loved very much in Japan. I think they are too much work to assemble at the waterfront myself.