Herabuna 箆鮒

Well to save money for my mahseer trip I haven’t been offshore fishing for almost two months now, but that did not stop me from popping down the road for a morning of herabuna fishing.  The more I fish for hera the more interesting it gets; it is a very absorbing method of fishing. 

It was very hot today and when the wind died down, the sweat was running in rivulets off my brow.  I think I picked up a little sun, which is not a bad thing as not going out fishing lately has led me to develop a very wan pallor.  I think I have improved in my hera fishing a little, and today I ended up with my best bag ever. 

On the way back home I picked up some tai-yaki, from the usual confectioners.  These are very good, the beanpaste filled right up to the tail and not too sweet, which is just the way I like tai-yaki.

Into the third year

of Compleat Tsuribito; thank you for your reading and posting comments!

One very pleasant surprise awaited me last night when I went to see my rod making teacher to pick up some of my rods I left in his care.  Earlier this year I misplaced my favourite and long-serving fishing knife, much to my disappointment.  Well it turns out my sensei went fishing last week and the skipper produced a knife and asked him if he knew the owner…well, the prodigal is returned!

A very, very big thank you to Captain Takahashi of the Kaitomaru, Fuku-ura Harbour.

Harrr!

Lock your skates up.

メダカ産卵中

うちはタナゴ・泥鰌・メダカなど川魚を飼っています。ミニ水槽の楊貴妃メダカのメスに卵がくっついています。

Fishing Fury Article

Well the good chaps at Fishing Fury have published my rambling description of making my first traditional bamboo fishing rod.  If you have been following my blog for a while, I made a lot of various posts this spring about my progress but this is a round-up describing the process from start to finish, with lots of good-sized photos.  I must say FF’s Jonathon Marshall deserves all the credit for editing my text and processing all the photos into the nice format they are in, seeing as just I e-mailed him a Word file and all the raw images.  I hope you enjoy it as much I enjoyed the rod making!

Today’s Tiffin

Been a while since I posted one of these, but I assure you I am eating a good tiffin everyday at work.  Old favourites include Madhur Jaffrey’s Delhi Hindu-style potatoes and hot, hot karhai chicken.  Another stalwart is malai ande – eggs, hard-boiled, in a tomato and cream sauce – which I had today with a Konkani-style dish of chickpeas, pork and potatoes.  Both come with a hefty kick of red chilli and lots of garlic and ginger to fortify myself over the sweltering Japanese summer.

The plastic pots and carry bag of my Japanese bento kit are becoming rather worn (and stained with red chilli) and I thought about picking up a proper tiffin carrier when I am in India next month.  Ideally I would buy something like this which, although it would stand out somewhat amongst the weird and slightly psychotic Hello Kitty and Disneyland boxes of some of my colleagues, would hold a proper tiffin with room for breads, pickles and salad also.

地元のお祭り

行ってきました

More pics from Yakushima

The seafood specialty of Yakushima is flying fish and saba mackerel; both of which were consumed on arrival on the island.  Click below for more photos.

What

Jules Winnfield would definitely not be impressed by this sign in Kagoshima city.

雷おこし

自家製雷おこし作りました。