Japan Angler

It was like waking up from a dream. Three decades of fishing flashed before me as I looked over the rail and locked eyes with the...

Golden Week this year was pretty solemn. So many people I know decided to refrain from any leisure activity out of consideration ...

As a general rule, I take an open-minded approach to life, giving any new experience a fair chance to impress me. Then again, I’m...

I don’t understand perfectionists. In my world when something goes down perfectly, it always seems incidental. Some might disagre...

Most people never think of game fishing as an adventure sport. Yet for some anglers there is no great thrill, and they’ll travel ...

Foreign anglers who show up in Japan with an itch to fish often find themselves overwhelmed with the slew of new target species a...

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...

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 ...