You could say the last 6 days had worn me out a bit so like most people on vacation I had a nice sleep in and easy start to the day, I was not being picked up till 1130 so there was no rushing just a nice easy start to the day.
Our first stop was to the office to tie up a few things up and to pick up some stick bait rods as the plan was to go to Shirihama later in the day to chase a fish they call locally a Bulli. The Bulli is a member of the seriola family and looks very similar to a Yellow Tail King Fish. They also have a fish here called Hiramasa which again is very similar to our Kingies.
We left the office to get a feed and a was very happy to have a Katsu Don with double the Kats (pork fillets in panko crumbs). It was awesome we caught up with some other staff at lunch also. Where we discussed what we would be doing tomorrow. We were meant to be going jigging but the weather man was talking about heavy snow fall, for those not aware Tanabe is the warmest part of the Wakayama Prefecture and does not get snow often - the weather man was predicting 2 inches of snow in the warmest part so there was a chance that the jigging could be called off.
Chockers full after lunch we made the 30 minute trip to Shirihama where we met up with the boat man Shogun Maru, some may remember the boat man colors in the Gan Craft egi - jya range, these are named from this man, we were also joined by Hata San a friend of every one in these parts and a very funny man. The wind was blowing its arse off but the boat is about 35 feet so no worries in the conditions.
Leaving the harbour the wind increased and conditions were less than ideal for casting stick baits as getting your footing on the boat would be hard work, we travelled about 30 minutes from the harbour and started to cast, Shogun Maru was concerned about the water temp as it had dropped dramatically and with the wind he was not expecting to catch any fish. We made a few drifts with nothing and a slight move was in order.
We had only moved about 200 meters and on my second cast I got smashed. These things much like our kings pull like trains. I was fishing a Yamaga Blue Sniper PE3 Rod with a Saltiga 4000 which was perfectly suited for the fish we were chasing, the captain made his way up to where I was fishing and in a short time we had the fish in a net. the fish measured 85cm, looking at the fish to see if I could find where they differ from our kings the only noticeable difference was they are not as slender, this thing was fat. Shortly after Hata San also landed a slightly smaller model. Kotaro managed to hook up to a good fish but it did not stay connected.
We were all very cold tired and wet so we made the decision to head back and go again to Syuraku Restaurant to get Akio to prepare the fish for eating. Less than 3 hours after being caught this fish was served up as sushimi on a plate in a restaurant - now that's fresh.
I had an awesome day and caught up with some more friend's both on the water and having a feed, the people have been so good to me I have again got the complex of knowing what its like to be king.
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