Fishing in Toyko?

We went for a trip to the “beach” on the side of the Tokyo bay and while running around after the kids I spotted a group of very dedicated anglers lining the shore of a rocky break wall a short distance away. As you can see there were a number of people there with all sorts of amazing kit. The size of the fish? About 3-4 inches long.

And then there was this? (why not?)

In the afternoon we headed to a park near where we are staying and found a pond that was ringed with fishermen, loaded with turtles and a wonderful brown colour. It quickly became apparent that the reason the pond was such a colour was the amount of burley being hurled into the water by all the fishermen. We did see one old guy catch himself a small carp on a classic bamboo rod that was mounted on a hand carved rod holder.