The day started awesome. Blue skies ahead and little wind to spoil the glass calm surface of the bay, we were utterly excited to get going. Bream on surface lures was the order of the day. It was hard to stay calm...
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| The perfect conditions provided picturesque pics. Captain Morishita and FCL Labo boss Tsurusaki-san ponder the day ahead... |
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| What would you know? First cast at the first fish spotted and we watched in awe as it turned, followed, and slurped down the slowly walked topwater offering. We were instantly in love! |
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| This is what its all about! The IMA Pugachev's Cobra 60 pencil is taken with gusto by this nice Bream... |
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| We scooted around the shallow fringes of the bay in search of Bream foraging. We would cast as close as possible without spooking these fish in gin clear waters, and hope for the best. This was the result with the IMA Pugachev's Cobra 60... |
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| Armed with the ultra sensitive Major Craft MS-X spin rod we could cast little topwater plugs a long way. It was essential to our success. The Bream here in Japan are big, and that's a pretty big understatement... |
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| The FCL Labo CSP pencil is an amazing lure which has the most enticing natural swimming action. It certainly got this badass Bream fooled... |
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| We can tell these fish are really old specimens just by looking at them. But their hefty shoulders and dark bodies gave them the look of hooligans, and they certainly were... |
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| The FCL Labo CSP isn't often ignored in this shallow clear water... |
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| How about this thoroughly handsome specimen on the IMA Pugachev's Cobra 60 pencil. A beauty from every angle... |
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| A typical urban structure in the bay where Bream like to hunt for an easy meal... |
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| Every take was a visual affair. For a budding sportfisho it was the ultimate experience. And the sheer size of the fish made every capture a special one... |
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| The IMA Pugachev's Cobra 60 worked with the Major Craft Benkei spin stick worked like gold... |
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| Some models were bigger and more badass than others. This one's an absolute horse! |
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| He wanted it bad! That IMA Pugachev's Cobra 60 is sucked down clean... |
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| The Bream weren't hard to find in the bay. Getting them to strike was a different matter but we got the hang of it quickly. We tried different approaches to convert lookers to eventual biters... |
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| It usually involved whipping out the FCL Labo CSP... |
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| Through out the day we were kept busy by these amazing fish in the shallows. The Major Craft MS-X in light spin guise was the perfect tool for this type of work. It delivered accurate, long casts and had the subtlety to work the light pencils succinctly... |
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| When breaming it never hurts to have one too many IMA Pugachev's Cobra 60s in the tackle box... |
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| These shallows are home to other predators too. This beautiful little Chinese Seabass provided some entertainment of a different sort... |
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| Then it was back to the Breams. And they never failed to entertain. Here the IMA Pugachev's Cobra 60 takes another hostage... |
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| They weren't all monsters but every capture on that topwater pencil was just as special... |
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