Black porgy fishing in the rainy season in Kagoshima, Kamikihara

On May 25th, plans to go fishing for greenfish on Koshikijima Island were cancelled due to rough weather...
I suddenly found myself with some free time and nothing to do, so instead of wasting time I drove about 30 minutes from my house to Kiire Shinko Port in Kagoshima City to go black porgy fishing.

Previous information said that black porgy can be seen near the breakwater, but this is a port famous for pufferfish. Avoiding the pufferfish is the top priority.

This time, I'm going to use a block of krill as the bait and mixed up a bag each of Sokozeme! Zudon, Mugi Kurodai, and Chinu Enmaku at a certain fishing tackle shop. (There should be a lot of pufferfish, so I'll use bait rich in barley and other ingredients to attract them, but the strategy is to turn on the black porgy's predatory switch as soon as possible.)
For bait, I prepared krill mixed into the bait, Meccha-kuu Corn, Amiebi Dango 70, and Honmushi Dango Hougyoku Renma.

I decided on my fishing spot after 5:30 and prepared a fishing spot by winding bait. When I dropped the bait at my feet, a huge number of pufferfish appeared...
If I use the ground bait incorrectly, it could be a disaster.

For the first hour, the bait was taken, but the tide was fast and I couldn't find a good place to cast my line, so I wasn't able to catch a single fish.
I attached a slightly larger piece of Meccha-kuu Corn with the krill as bait, and cast it far away.

Even with a fast tide, I let the lure hit the bottom and waited there, and the line started to pulsate!
I thought it was a black porgy, but what came up was a 35cm Japanese porgy.

I was overjoyed, but I was relieved to see that I caught a fish other than pufferfish.

When the tide slackened, I noticed that the float that was supposed to be submerged had started to float up. When I reeled in the tackle, the line broke silently! It seemed like a pufferfish was biting the line.
Since leaving the rig in a long stay was becoming a risky situation, I changed to a rod float and used a heavy rig to force the rig to settle, trying to catch smaller bites in combination.

When the tide moves enough, the pufferfish stop coming out to sea, so I created about three points and looked for places where the tide was moving, and instead of looking for black porgy, I focused on dodging the pufferfish.

However, this pattern worked, and the Meccha-kuu corn became very popular among the fish when the tide started to move!
The bait was set up, and when I gave it a light bait, the float went straight in.
Most of them were silver sea bream though lol

I caught a total of 15 silver sea bream of the sole size, and in between I also caught some black porgy and red sea bream.

The tide stopped just before low tide at 12 o'clock, and when two of my floats silently snapped, I called it a day, cleaned up the embankment, and headed home.

The rainy season has begun in Kagoshima, and the water temperature has risen considerably, causing the fish to become more active.
It looks like we're not long until the summer black porgy high season.
Since there are a lot of bait stealers, I would like to increase the variety of dough bait and try again next time.