On befalf of Keito, I (Shogo) report the
fishing diary of second day of fishing trip to Wajima.
Ken and Keito had arrived at Wajima the day
before, and Yoshi, Yuko, and I went there behind. On the way to Wajima, we arrived in high
spirits by hearing good catches from Ken and Keito. While I was worried about weather in that day, I
believed that fish were willing to stock up for bad weather. I convinced myself,
“I will catch fish tomorrow, and that, kingfish or yellowtail!!” I slept well
and prepared for the next day.
The fishing in Wajima last year was almost the
first time that I went fishing. I have never forgot the exciting fight against
yellowtail. And then, I have been fishing several times. “I am not a beginner, so
I’ll catch a lot of fish!” reminding of my fishing, I got on a ship.
We casted off at 4:30 AM. It blew little, and the
tide was gentle. According to the weather news, it would start raining at 10:00
AM. So, it seemed that we could catch from daybreak to sunrise. After an hour,
everyone started to fall down their jigs in the sea.
The member on the ship were Mr.Yamada, who is a
field tester of HOTS, Yoshi, Ken, Yuko, Keito, and me. Mr.Yamada caught good size
of rockfish at first easily. I guessed here could be the point where my target would
appear...
On the way to Wajima, Yuko asked me what my aiming
target was. “I want to catch about two kingfish or yellowtail, and it is very
nice if I can catch big rockfish.” I answered. Yuko has caught rockfish as big
as yellowtail in Wajima a few years ago. I had a feeling of yearning to her. I
strongly desired that I catch not only King Fish or Yellow Tail but also other
fishes.
At first, I tried to catch kingfish or
yellowtail! I used OTOKO JIG of HOTS. I moved my jig, but there was no bite.
Then Yoshi screamed out, “It’s coming!!” He was repeating tiny and quick action
next to me, and caught a yellowtail of approximately 6kg without giving time to
the fish to run out.
Yoshi used Ryujin 2.0G (0.23mm) for main line, and
Momoi Shock Leader 40lb for leader line. As he set drag tightly, the line was
not pulled out from reel. The yellowtail could not break Ryujin even drag was
very tight. Of course, Ryujin had no damage, and Yoshi carried on catching
smoothly after that as well. We could not catch fish anymore at that point, so
we decided to move some other place. While moving on, I learned some technique to
move jig widely in the sea.
We arrived at next point where depth of the sea
was about 60mtr. Feeling the tide gets a little bigger, I fell down my jig. I
moved the jig again and again, but I did not have any bite. I was reminded that
I must have bite about this time of last year… While I was wondering, I noticed
Yuko’s rod was bowed. She got up the rod, then, a big rockfish appeared. Even a
rockfish, how big sizes live in Wajima!
Later, we moved to next point. Unfortunately,
it started raining at 8:00 AM. “I have to catch fish before it rains stronger.”
I thought easy-going. That day, the fish finder showed school of fish in the
bottom of sea, so I repeated jerking up 10mtr from the bottom, and then,
falling down jig to the bottom again. While I had no bite, I held out for them
with the same jig. I said to myself, “It is the time for having patience.” This
patience bore fruit, not mine but Keito’s rod was bowed. Guessing from rod’s
move, it seemed that this was big fish. Keito fought it throughout the body. The
sound of drag was resonating on the ship, and all members paid attention to
Keito. When we could see shadow of fish, we started to guess if it would be
Kingfish or yellowtail. Then, the tragedy happened. Keito’s hook uncoupled, and
fish ran away. Keito deeply regretted even though he had caught yellowtail the
day before. It was almost there...
We changed the point again. I was worried that
I could not catch any fish at this rate, but I would not like to give up
fishing with jig. At this time, Ken had a bite. His line was pulled out from
reel by the second. We wondered if his line got caught by reef. So, Ken cut out
the main line involuntarily. He had to choose setting up spinning reel again or
giving it up. But, he is good at handling bait reel, so quickly turned around
and targeted rockfish by using Inchiku, Bigfin of HOTS. And then, the bite came
to him! He managed to catch it easily. We could not catch since then, so we moved
to next point. That time, I noticed that I did not catch any fish. Since I did
not want to end this fishing without catching any fish, I decided to use the
bait tackle and aiming at rockfish by Bigfin of HOTS. I wanted to catch rockfish
at first. Also, I would like to catch kingfish or yellowtail with any luck.
But, it was not easy to do well. Though I
changed the tackle and attacked many times the very bottom, I had no bite at
all in this heavy rain. Far from it, my jig was caught by the reef, and Yoshi
helped me out of that trouble. My raincoat could not shed cold rainwater, and
it got through under my wear. It was terrible situation for me. And
furthermore, everyone without me had bite, so I felt that they wanted to cut
short. In addition to that, I found that an assist hook of Bigfin had come off
by the previous trouble as if adding me insult to injury. I had to choose
jigging by spinning tackle or searching for rockfish by Bigfin. I chose the
latter. Also, I changed color of Bigfin to blue. Because it seemed there were
some sardines in the bottom at the next point, I thought blue color would have
good effect to them. I reeled as soon as my jig reached at the bottom, and
reeled quickly, and fell down to the bottom…
I used my action to the extent that I could. I had a negative thought I
could not any fishes, however, I tried to search patiently. Then, my rod moved
a little bit. “It’s coming finally!!” I reeled up in a hurry. I noticed something
when the line came up to 20mtr. I could not feel any reaction of fish. I kept
reeling up, feeling that everyone was watching me as if they said to me it was just
my imaging. At long last, I caught a small rockfish. Everyone are used to be
fishing big sizes, so they told me, “it is very small…” But, it looked like
great to me breaking out of no catches. After that, I also caught a big rockfish
when I moved jig lambently. In addition to this, I caught it one more time when
I fell down the Bigfin with action of slow jigging. I caught three fishes in
total.
Mr.Yamada, Ken, and Yuko also caught rockfish consistently.
Finally, we came to the last point. This is the regular point where we catch rockfish.
Yoshi opened up the use of SLOW STYLE rod made in HOTS, and HOTS X MOMOI SLOW
STYLE PE 1.2G as main line finally. This is radical combination. Everyone who
used this line says in chorus that this line is very easy to find the bottom of
sea. In general, PE lines do not have much elongation, though it still has
elongation of 5 to 6%. This SLOW STYLE PE was developed to have only less than 3%
degree of elongation. In addition to that, this line has high resistance to the
current and can decrease effect of tide while falling down the jig. For these
character, SLOW STYLE PE gives us a lot easiness to find the bottom, and
therefore it is very comfortable to use. In that point, I could guess that there were a
lot of rockfish because there were lots of reef. For that reason, we had a risk
of getting caught by reef. Nevertheless, as Yoshi set line system with sufficient
length of Momoi SHOCK LEADER, he attacked the very bottom bravely. He could
make it possible by good balance of SLOW STYLE PE’s low degree of elongation
and Momoi SHOCK LEADER which has as much as or better abrasion resistance of
Fluorocarbon. As he planned (?), he caught a wonderful tilefish.
We could not continue fishing by heavy rain, so
we decided to return.
Thank you very much Wajima! I hope to catch kingfish
or yellowtail next time.
Tackles which Momoi staff used in Wajima as
below:
Yoshi
Spinning Tackle
Rod:HOTS FAKE LEZ 64ML BOSO
PENINSULA
Reel:PENN Battle 6000
Main Line:Momoi Ryujin 2G
(0.20mm) 300m
Leader Line:Momoi SHOCK LEADER 12G
(40LB)
Jig:HOTS
Debutan Silver 180g
Bait Tackle 1
Rod:HOTS SLOW STYLE 64M
Reel:Abu Garcia SALTY STAGE
REVO LJ-4
Main Line:Momoi JigLine MX8 PRO
3G (0.28mm) 300m
Leader Line:Momoi SHOCK LEADER 12G
40LB
Bait Tackle 2
Rod:HOTS SLOW STYLE 63L
Reel:SHIMANO OCEA CONQUEST
300HG
Main Line:HOTS x MOMOI - SLOW
STYLE PE- 1.2G
Leader Line:Momoi SHOCK LEADER 5G
20LB
Jig:HOTS Bigfin Orange/Silver
120g
Caprice Sardin Color
(Ever Green) 130g
Ken
Spinning Tackle
Rod:HOTS GIPANG TIDE LEZ. 67L
Reel:SHIMANO SPHEROS SW
6000HG
Main Line:Momoi MX8 PRO 2.5G
(0.26mm) 300m
Leader Line:Momoi SHOCK LEADER
40LB
Jig:HOTS
Debutan 180g, KEITAN 175g etc.
Bait Tackle
Rod:HOTS STILETTO SLOW STYLE
SSS63M
Reel:ACCURATE BX 400N
Main Line:Momoi MX8 PRO 2.5G
(0.26mm) 300m
Leader Line:Momoi SHOCK LEADER 12G
40LB
Jig:HOTS Bigfin RGB, INCHIKU made
by Assist Kobo
Yuko
Spinning Tackle
Rod:HOTS FAKE LEZ 64ML BOSO
BENINSULA
Reel:PENN Battle Ⅱ 6000
Main Line:Momoi JigLine MX8 3G
(0.28mm) 300m
Leader Line:Momoi SHOCK LEADER 12G
(40LB)
Jig:HOTS Debutan Pink Silver 180g
Bait Tackle 1
Rod:HOTS SLOW STYLE 63L
Reel:SHIMANO OCEA CONQUEST 300HG
Main Line:HOTS x MOMOI -SLOW
STYLE PE- 1.5G (0.20mm) 300mm
Leader Line:Momoi SHOCK LEADER 5G
(20LB)
Jig:Carprise Sardin Color (Ever
Green) 130g
Bait Tackle 2
Rod:HOTS STILETTO SLOW STYLE
SSS63M
Reel:Abu Garcia SALTY STAGE
REVO LJ-4
Main Line:Momoi Ryujin 2G
(0.23mm) 300m
Leader Line:Momoi HI-Catch
Fluorocarbon NEO PINK 14G (40LB)
Jig:HOTS Debutan Glow 150g
Keito
Spinning Tackle
Rod:HOTS FAKE LEZ 64ML BOSO
PENINSULA
Reel:SHIMANO TWIN POWER
SW8000HG
Main Line:Momoi MX8 PRO 3.0G
(0.28mm) 300m
Leader Line:Momoi SHOCK LEADER 12G
40LB
Jig:KEITAN JIG 175g HOLO
Akakin/Glow etc.
Bait Tackle
Rod:HOTS SLOW STYLE 64M
Reel:SHIMANO OCEA JIGGER
1500HG
Main Line:Momoi MX8 PRO 2.5G
(0.26mm) 300m
Leader Line:Momoi SHOCK LEADER 12G
40LB
Jig:UV/R.G.B 150g, AWABI Black
etc.
Shogo
Spinning Tackle
Rod:HOTS GIPANG TIDE LEZ. 67L
Reel:SHIMANO NASCI C5000XG
Main Line:Momoi MX8 2.5G (0.26mm)
300m
Leader Line:Momoi SHOCK LEADER 8G
30LB
Jig:HOTS OTOKO Jig Silver 130g
Bait Tackle
Rod:HOTS SLOW STYLE 63L
Reel:DAIWA CATALINA 20H
Main Line:Momoi Ryujin 1.75G
(0.22mm) 300m
Leader Line:Momoi SHOCK LEADER 8G
30LB
Jig:HOTS Bigfin Orange/Silver,
Sardin (120g)