Abdel Ibrahim
Abdel Ibrahim has been living - and fishing - in Japan for nearly two decades. The Japan Angler is an avid fisherman is most at home out on the high seas chasing after wild Tuna in Japan and around the world. He also is a custom lure-maker, creating beautiful hand-made lures to clients all over the world.
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Taking a Moment to “Take it All In”
Most people never think of game fishing as an adventure sport. Yet for some anglers there is no great thrill, and they’ll travel ...
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Love for the ‘Gedou’
Foreign anglers who show up in Japan with an itch to fish often find themselves overwhelmed with the slew of new target species a...
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Going Slow in Shonan
My buddy Gary calls me late at night saying there is some action I should take at first light. I tell him I’ll come around be...
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A ‘Coldy’ but ‘Goody’
Usually I don’t go for this sort of thing. The forecast said we’d be getting rain all day, the north wind was going to gust, and ...
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Genkai Sea Topwater Game
“Who needs a career when all you wanna do is go fishing?” That’s what I ask myself whenever I think about how disinterested I am ...
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Fishing for Surfers
If you live in the Shonan area of Kanagawa, chances are you or someone you know is big into surfing. My buddies tried to get me t...
Kayaking
Kayak Fishing 101
Ask any serious anglers, and they will tell you they have an unconscious habit of immediately sizing up any body of water they co...
Fishing
Conquering Kiwi Kings
The brilliant green coastline along the Bay of Plenty seems to stretch on forever. Void of man-made objects other than the road i...
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Whaling: Tradition and Conservation vs. Fear and...
You may have heard about a reality TV series called “Whale Wars” and currently airing on Animal Planet in North America. The seri...
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Skinny Water Plugging
Like many avid sport anglers, I have a bad habit of getting consumed with one target species or style of fishing for a period of ...
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Tossing Out the Nets
At the beach in front of my house in Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture, a group of retirees run what is known as a jibiki ami tsuri (地引網釣...
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Stalking the Rainbows of Yozuku
A fishing buddy and I recently took a short exploratory trek into the deepest, darkest hills of Kanagawa for some light tackl...
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