Fishing
Fishing with Tai Rubber

Fishing with Tai Rubber, often called Eye Drop Jig, is one of the very popular lures to catch red seabream or Madai (Pagrus Major.) In this article, I would like to introduce the tackle, history and a bit of tips to select Tai Rubber. What is Tai Rubber? Tai Rubber is a special type of […]

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Pleasure of Iso Fukase Fishing

Have you heard about Iso fishing before? Iso stands for rocky coast in Japanese. For Japanese anglers, Iso is the place with rich target fish, which are not commercially available but very tasty. You can say that Iso is an angling paradise, because only anglers are interested in Iso and that it is untouched by […]

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Vintage Pattern of Tenkara Fly

This is except from a Japanese book about traditional river fishing. Original name of the book is shown at the end of this article. This book explores the tradition of river fishing (commercial fishing as well as angling.) It shows a lot about the intericate interaction between men and rivers. Among these interesting contents, please […]

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Mabuna; Magic of Multiple Floats

「釣りは鮒に始まり鮒に終わる」  “Your fishing life starts from crucian carp and ends with it” This is a Japanese fishing proverb. It tells us that anglers start fishing experience with crucian carp, and they enjoy it until the very last tourney of angling. Crucian carp have been very accessible fish in the life of Japanese people, and easy […]

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