On my recent trip to the mountains I came across a popular fishing spot on the Tama river. It costs about 3500 yen ($45) to fish in this stretch of river for the day.
I headed up river from where I first saw the river intent on seeing if I could spot any fish in the river. The first clue of what was coming was the banner across the bottom of the river “beat”. As you can see from the river it looked a lot like some of the water you would see in the New Zealand mountains, just not the same wilderness experience.
Upon rounding the corner in the river I was greeted by the sight of about two dozen guys fishing in the series of beats up and out of sight around the next bend in the river. From looking at the website of the “fishery” it is apparent that the section of river is divided into a number of areas dedicated to different methods of fishing. The fisheries office also has some storage pools that contain any number of 1-1.5 pound rainbow trout that were placed in the river during the course of the day.
In an almost sacrilegious occurrence these guys lump spin fishers in with fly fishers. The top section of the open waters on this day was reserved for people practising traditional Japanese long pole fishing. It uses equipment very similar to coarse fishing equipment (long multi-piece carbon fibre rods with no reel and a fixed section of line on the end).
There was a mixture of water that could be fished from some beautiful looking pocket water to so long slow pools.
Spin fishermen were by far the most prevalent and were catching a number of fish from the slower pools using small red spinners. As the fish were still in their spawning colour I can only assume that the spinners were the fly fishers equivalent of a globug.
One guy pulled out about 8 fish (all uniform colours and size) while I watched and then just packed up – picked up the fish headed back to his car and drove off. A nice 30 minutes of fishing if you can get it.
While it was good to find this spot as a potential fishing destination and having it within 2 and a half hours of home is not such a bad thing the one major drawback is the lack of any sort of experience. I have seen photos of this particular section of river during summer time where you could fit another person onto the bank. I might have to give it a miss and try and find somewhere a little more remote.
I headed up river from where I first saw the river intent on seeing if I could spot any fish in the river. The first clue of what was coming was the banner across the bottom of the river “beat”. As you can see from the river it looked a lot like some of the water you would see in the New Zealand mountains, just not the same wilderness experience.
In an almost sacrilegious occurrence these guys lump spin fishers in with fly fishers. The top section of the open waters on this day was reserved for people practising traditional Japanese long pole fishing. It uses equipment very similar to coarse fishing equipment (long multi-piece carbon fibre rods with no reel and a fixed section of line on the end).
There was a mixture of water that could be fished from some beautiful looking pocket water to so long slow pools.
One guy pulled out about 8 fish (all uniform colours and size) while I watched and then just packed up – picked up the fish headed back to his car and drove off. A nice 30 minutes of fishing if you can get it.
While it was good to find this spot as a potential fishing destination and having it within 2 and a half hours of home is not such a bad thing the one major drawback is the lack of any sort of experience. I have seen photos of this particular section of river during summer time where you could fit another person onto the bank. I might have to give it a miss and try and find somewhere a little more remote.
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