07-25-2003, 05:39 AM
Thank You everyone for the kind welcome!
I have still been reading some post from user here. There is very much information that is good for using small fishing vehicles. Tube Dude, you must be fishing master! You have very much good suggestions for other fishers here.
It takes me a very long time to find the common english names for fish that I catch in Okinawa. Any fish that is not poisonous or dangerous to catch is my target fish. This means that I target fish for over 50 kinds of fish, it's hard for me to even count. I eat my fish almost every day for meals. I love to fish not only for good taste but also for excitement of large fish that are very hard fighters. The danger in Okinawa is that there is over 40 types of fish here that are poisonous or dangerous, many tourist people have injuries or get poisoned from these dangerous fish. We have types that bite fingers off, we have types that give skin rash, we have types that have poison if you touch it, types that have poison if you eat it, and we have many types of sharks. You can try to target certain types of fish by the type of tackle that you use, but you will never really know what type will enjoy your tackle. There are many other dangers in ocean fishing in Okinawa, most fisher with no experience has danger from tides, currents, waves, jelly fish, urchins and coral rash. So please be careful in oceans in Okinawa.
I fish usually with 3 types of tackle set from small crafts.
I make lures from woods and other materials like plasitc and also paint them. This takes much time and it makes you feel much pain when you lost or cannot retrieve your lure, maybe sometimes you may even cry when you find needle fish or barracuda and you must cut your line and say goodbye to your lure, but I find that catching good fish on lure that you make is very wonderful feeling. In Japan there are many many very nice lure to buy, but the cost of this lure is very expensive, some are cheap in US$5.00, but good lure cost US$25. I only use these types of lure when friends give them to me as gift or if my local fishing store owner wants me to try lure for him, if we like the lure, then he will buy them for customers in his store, when we don't like lures he will not sell them in his store.
I also use live bait in 2 ways, one way is what you call 'drop shot' and another way is with a multiple hook line. Drop shot is when I fish up to 50 meters deep.Multiple hook line is good for shallow waters. Multiple hook line is technical because you use bottom type bait on bottom hook, and bait fish that swim just above bottom on next hook, fish that swims in middle on middle hook etc....sometimes I use 6 or 8 hooks for 1 line with interval depending on target fish. I use many types of live baits, it is fish that I catch that day that are small or fish that I use throwing net for, there is not many place to buy fish as bait in Okinawa so buying bait fish is like buying fish as food, so it is expensive to buy. You must join Okinawa fishing association to use net. I think fish have taste like human, they eat the same good taste fishes that we eat.
I also use some fishing boat technique when I can use my friends boat with large motors for deep sea trolling. But usually I fish from float tube and kayak. It depends on conditions and many other things, kayak has advantage if you are in strong currents or have long distance, float tube has advantage if you have no currents or winds and short distance. Since I find this site I am constructing Sonar and Rod holder for these. We do not have many choices of buying hardware in Okinawa, so I usually make orders from mainland Japan. Okinawa has very nice reef shelf that drops to over 100 meter very fast, so I use GPS mapping software to keep good information on where fish is waiting.
I have tried to Upload attachment, showing my poor art skill. I have tried to show my conclusion on the surfing picture because my words are sometimes confusing to even myself and I typed them.
I have still been reading some post from user here. There is very much information that is good for using small fishing vehicles. Tube Dude, you must be fishing master! You have very much good suggestions for other fishers here.
It takes me a very long time to find the common english names for fish that I catch in Okinawa. Any fish that is not poisonous or dangerous to catch is my target fish. This means that I target fish for over 50 kinds of fish, it's hard for me to even count. I eat my fish almost every day for meals. I love to fish not only for good taste but also for excitement of large fish that are very hard fighters. The danger in Okinawa is that there is over 40 types of fish here that are poisonous or dangerous, many tourist people have injuries or get poisoned from these dangerous fish. We have types that bite fingers off, we have types that give skin rash, we have types that have poison if you touch it, types that have poison if you eat it, and we have many types of sharks. You can try to target certain types of fish by the type of tackle that you use, but you will never really know what type will enjoy your tackle. There are many other dangers in ocean fishing in Okinawa, most fisher with no experience has danger from tides, currents, waves, jelly fish, urchins and coral rash. So please be careful in oceans in Okinawa.
I fish usually with 3 types of tackle set from small crafts.
I make lures from woods and other materials like plasitc and also paint them. This takes much time and it makes you feel much pain when you lost or cannot retrieve your lure, maybe sometimes you may even cry when you find needle fish or barracuda and you must cut your line and say goodbye to your lure, but I find that catching good fish on lure that you make is very wonderful feeling. In Japan there are many many very nice lure to buy, but the cost of this lure is very expensive, some are cheap in US$5.00, but good lure cost US$25. I only use these types of lure when friends give them to me as gift or if my local fishing store owner wants me to try lure for him, if we like the lure, then he will buy them for customers in his store, when we don't like lures he will not sell them in his store.
I also use live bait in 2 ways, one way is what you call 'drop shot' and another way is with a multiple hook line. Drop shot is when I fish up to 50 meters deep.Multiple hook line is good for shallow waters. Multiple hook line is technical because you use bottom type bait on bottom hook, and bait fish that swim just above bottom on next hook, fish that swims in middle on middle hook etc....sometimes I use 6 or 8 hooks for 1 line with interval depending on target fish. I use many types of live baits, it is fish that I catch that day that are small or fish that I use throwing net for, there is not many place to buy fish as bait in Okinawa so buying bait fish is like buying fish as food, so it is expensive to buy. You must join Okinawa fishing association to use net. I think fish have taste like human, they eat the same good taste fishes that we eat.
I also use some fishing boat technique when I can use my friends boat with large motors for deep sea trolling. But usually I fish from float tube and kayak. It depends on conditions and many other things, kayak has advantage if you are in strong currents or have long distance, float tube has advantage if you have no currents or winds and short distance. Since I find this site I am constructing Sonar and Rod holder for these. We do not have many choices of buying hardware in Okinawa, so I usually make orders from mainland Japan. Okinawa has very nice reef shelf that drops to over 100 meter very fast, so I use GPS mapping software to keep good information on where fish is waiting.
I have tried to Upload attachment, showing my poor art skill. I have tried to show my conclusion on the surfing picture because my words are sometimes confusing to even myself and I typed them.