I have worked so hard this weekend that I felt I
needed a short break this afternoon. So I went to Etomo Harbor this evening. Before
casting my lures, I found an empty beverage can left on Nanbo, one of the breakwaters in the harbor. Of course I picked up the can. Then, I
started casting my lures from the tip of the breakwater. I saw some
small predatory fish chasing baitfish on the surface. They seemed young Japanese sea bass. One young lure fisherman who came later and kept casting a small
vibration plug caught one of them just before sunset.
(今週末はずっと忙しく働いていたため、今日の午後は、ちょっと休みを取る必要があるように思いました。そこで夕方、恵曇港に行ったのでした。ルアーを投げる前、恵曇港の防波堤の一つである南防で、コーヒーの空き缶が捨てられているのを見つけました。もちろん私は空き缶を拾いました。そして、その防波堤の先端からルアーを投げ始めたのです。捕食性の小さな魚が、水面でベイトフィッシュ(大きな魚の餌となる小魚)を追い回しています。どうもセイゴ(スズキの子供)のようです。後からやって来て、小さなバイブレーション・プラグを投げていた若いルアー釣り師が、日没の直前にそのセイゴを釣りました。)
I didn’t have any small plugs. Instead, I took out a Northbar
Bottledarter, whose size is 18 cm in length and 2.5 oz. in weight. It is almost
as big as the young Japanese sea bass. Just at sunset, when I was about to give
up fishing, I hooked something. It pulled hard. I thought it was a medium-sized Japanese sea bass, but actually it was a longtooth grouper of 42 cm (17 in.).
Do you remember my “Those who pick up the litter will be
rewarded” theory, which I explained in my past posts No. 85 and 86? Well, this
evening the theory seemed to prove right again.
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