Black porgy fishing with fellow anglers Tatebayashi, January 24th (Sat)　

Mid-tide Low tide 5:50 High tide 12:08

Wind northwest 7-8m

I won the lottery for a fishing tournament to be held in Kita-Kujukushima, for which I had entered, so I went black porgy fishing with some fellow anglers.

On this day, the wind was 7m northwest, there was light rain and it was cold, so I wanted to have a comfortable fishing experience and asked the captain to find a spot sheltered from the wind before heading out to the reef.

There was a bay on the right, and my friends joined us at a spot where there was a pearl shelf 30 meters away, and I set up my fishing spot at a place where there was a pearl shelf 40 meters away facing offshore, and we started fishing at 8 o'clock.

Blend recipe

Nama sanagi kurodai

• Mugi kurodai

・Chinu Enmaku

• Seiha Chinu

Fishing barley (900g)

2 sheets of krill

To make the ground bait, I mix all the ingredients I'll be using in a crate, then add one sheet of krill and water to mix evenly, then step on it with my foot to remove the air and make it sticky. Finally, I lightly mix in the remaining krill, transfer it to a bucket, and take it to the fishing spot.

The rain stopped after about an hour, but the wind shifted and started blowing sideways. When I raised the float, the rising current slid down, making fishing difficult, so I decided to try submerging the entire depth to see how it would go. I cast far and kept the rig taut to prevent it from being snatched by the rising current. I checked the point where the rig hit the bottom, the strength of the current, and the influence of the wind. The wind felt like it was blowing from left to right, about 6m, and the current was fairly strong, flowing from the right offshore to the left front. I cast the bait 5m in front of the point where I wanted it to accumulate. I caught a rockfish after a few casts, and I used Namaiki-kun for PRO as my bait. With this pattern, I caught some rockfish and red spotted grouper for a while. However, there were no signs of a black porgy, and I got snagged on a lot of rocks, so I changed my rig to a rod float.

The tide started to slow down around noon, and the fishing gear and ground bait became more synchronized, so the rod float started to get bites, and then the float was pulled into the sea and the long-awaited black porgy appeared.

Thinking that this was my chance, I continued casting in the same direction, and this time the float sank with force, catching my second fish.

There were many bites on the corn dumplings, which made me nervous the whole time, but both of the black porgy that I caught were on the Namaikikun PRO (2L)

After that, there were no more bites from the bait-eaters, so we called it a day.

I gave the black porgy that I caught as a gift to my friend who wanted it, and he sent me a photo of it eating lots of barley.

I was very satisfied with the fishing trip as the effects of the yellow barley blended with Tsurimugi (900g) and raw black porgy pupae were fully demonstrated.