Fishing in Japan

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

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...

“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 ...

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...

Ask any serious anglers, and they will tell you they have an unconscious habit of immediately sizing up any body of water they co...

You may have heard about a reality TV series called “Whale Wars” and currently airing on Animal Planet in North America. The seri...

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...

A few hours from the crowds and concrete of Tokyo is a small river where, over the last few years, I have consistently landed a d...

The mountain trout are there, in Tohoku, thriving in the beautiful streams which flow through beech forests. For the next several...