The farther you go....

Last night, I was excited to prepare for another fishing trip and carefully selected lures to take with. Below is a scan of my tackle box to go.

I left home in the midnight, drove through four prefectures to go fishing in far central Japan with a good fishing buddy of mine. We fished almost 14 hours from early in the morning to the evening, but all I could catch was this baby fish. And it was even caught accidentally while I was retrieving the bait. The fishing was very slow and the result was poor, but I enjoy a lot on the water in a breathtaking setting of natural beauty.

Take me out to the ball game

Today, we took out our daughters to Skymark Stadium in Kobe to watch a professional baseball game. The Stadium was very beautiful, and they looked excited to watch a game for the first time in their lives.


When the 5th inning was over, a series of wonderful fireworks burst across the sky.

My wife and I wanted to keep watching the game, but our daughters said they got sleepy before the end of the game, so we reluctantly left there.

Super Frog, not Bass Frog

I looked through my tackle boxes and found the name of the frog I used last time 'Super Frog', not 'Bass Frog', which I had believed. Among Bill Plummer's frogs, this Super Frog (so called "2nd frog") is on the top of my list, and I have several of them in stock.

Bass Frog

I got skunked in the first pond, and then I quickly went to another. The fishing was very slow in this pond as well, so I changed the lures to an old rubber frog (Bill Plummer Bass Frog, maybe made more than 30 years ago). I quietly cast it on the water surface near the grassy shore, and it immediately disappeared from the surface. A nice bass swallowed it.

This bass was about 3lb, the largest one and the hardest fighter during this season of mine .

Today's tackle:
ABU Record, Phillipson RC60 (rebuilt), Stren 14lb (Clear Blue), Bill Plummer Bass Frog, Heddon Lucky 13, Zara Spook, Chugger Spook, etc.