Methods
Fishing methods
Ordered from easiest. If you learn one method first, start at the top.
Sabiki (bait-jig) fishing
Difficulty ●○○○○ ・ Beginner, Family
A string of small feathered hooks fished next to a cage packed with krill. Shake the rod, the krill drifts ou…
Chonage (short-cast bottom fishing)
Difficulty ●○○○○ ・ Beginner, Family
A light sinker and a two-hook rig baited with sandworm, cast just 10-30 m to search the bottom. No dedicated …
Anazuri (hole fishing in tetrapods)
Difficulty ●○○○○ ・ Beginner, Family
Drop a burakuri, a weighted single-hook rig, into the gaps between tetrapods or rip-rap. A rod of about one m…
Float fishing
Difficulty ●●○○○ ・ Beginner, Intermediate
A float suspends the bait at a chosen depth (tana) and signals the bite by sinking. Its strength is that you …
Tairaba (tai rubber jig)
Difficulty ●●○○○ ・ Beginner, Intermediate
A lead or tungsten head trailing a rubber skirt and tail is dropped from a boat; touch bottom, then simply wi…
Surf casting
Difficulty ●●●○○ ・ Intermediate
A long rod and a heavy sinker put the rig 50-100 m out, and the rod is then rested while you wait. Where chon…
Eging (squid jigging with egi)
Difficulty ●●●○○ ・ Intermediate
Sink an egi, a shrimp-shaped jig, snap it upward, and let the squid grab it on the fall. No bait, no mess and…
Nomase (live bait) fishing
Difficulty ●●●○○ ・ Intermediate
A small horse mackerel or sardine caught on a sabiki rig is sent back out alive, and the large predators that…
Fukase (drift float) fishing
Difficulty ●●●●○ ・ Intermediate, Advanced
Almost no lead: the rig drifts with the current at the same speed as the loose chum you throw. It looks like …
Jigging (metal jig)
Difficulty ●●●●○ ・ Intermediate, Advanced
A solid metal jig is cast from shore or dropped from a boat, then worked with the rod while retrieving so tha…