Chapter Ninety-Six: A Japanese Fishing Tackle Shop

In the car, Hong Tao finally figured out what he said last night, at the banquet he said that he was very interested in sea fishing, as a result, the two anglers of Muraichi and Yae immediately said that they could take Hong Tao to sea fishing, and promised to pick up Hong Tao early this morning to buy sea fishing equipment.

Dawa has more than 20 fishing tackle stores in Japan, including three in the Tokyo area alone, and Hong Tao is the largest of them today, so I think it's called a "flagship store" according to us. ALTHOUGH HONG TAO DID NOT KNOW JAPANESE, HE WAS STILL A HUNDRED METERS AWAY FROM THE FISHING TACKLE SHOP, AND HE RECOGNIZED THE DAWA LOGO ON THE LINTEL AND THE LINE OF ENGLISH "FISHINGSHOP" NEXT TO IT.

In fact, according to the habits of Chinese, this fishing tackle shop should be called fishing tackle city, its area can almost catch up with a medium-sized supermarket in our country, there are 4 doors in and out alone, and the large glass door is also like a supermarket, with posters of various fishing tackle.

The furnishings in the store are more like a supermarket, except for a few kinds of fishing gear because the individual is too large, most of the fishing gear is displayed on the tall shelves, allowing customers to choose by themselves, looking at it, row by row of shelves are undulating, which can arouse people's desire to buy.

Originally, Hong Tao wanted to walk around carefully in a row to see if there were any new things that were not available in China, but with the two old fishing friends of Muraichi and Yae, he didn't give him this opportunity at all, and directly brought Hong Tao to the sea fishing area with a familiar car.

In the middle of the fishing area, there is even a 6 or 7 meter long fishing boat that is displayed there, looking at this beautiful boat, thinking about the appearance of standing on the boat and waving the fishing rod, Hong Tao is more looking forward to sea fishing.

Although it was already winter, there were still many people in the fishing tackle shop, especially in the sea fishing area, and Hong Tao saw something on a wall that resembled a leaderboard, with photos of anglers and catches. Muraichi told Hong Tao that this is the fishing leaderboard, which is basically found in all fishing tackle shops, which records the names of the anglers, the weight of the big fish caught and the sea area, which has no fixed organization to maintain, and is the information provided by the anglers consciously.

Sea fishing and freshwater fishing basically cover all aspects of fishing, because there seem to be only two natural waters on the earth. Just talking about sea fishing, it is estimated that Hong Tao has to find a big truck to load the equipment he needs to buy, and freshwater fishing, sea fishing is also a general term for many kinds of fishing methods, as long as you fish in the sea, no matter how you fish, it is called sea fishing.

There are many classifications of sea fishing, and the current general classification method is to distinguish according to the position of the angler, which can be roughly divided into two categories: shore fishing and boat fishing, and then derive beach fishing, rock fishing, and boat fishing; They are then classified according to fishing methods, such as float fishing, sinking bottom fishing, and tow fishing. In this way, there are 3 kinds of beach fishing, rock fishing, boat fishing and floating fishing, sinking fishing, and tow fishing, and then combining these 3 sea fishing methods with those 3 types of sea fishing techniques, which is basically the content of all sea fishing.

Let's talk about this beach fishing first, as the name suggests, is to fish on the shore or on the beach on a gentle terrain, this fishing method generally uses a special long-throw rod, because the water depth of the beach is very shallow, so you need a rod that can throw the bait far away to get the right water depth. Most of the long-throw rods are about 4 meters to 4 meters 5, a single section is very long, the whole pole is up to 5 sections, most of them are 4 sections, whether it is made of FRP material or carbon as raw materials, the long-range casting rod is mainly based on toughness and firmness, because when throwing bait and plumb, the amount of force used in throwing the rod is very large, if there is no tough rod body as a guarantee, the fish has not been caught, and the rod is all thrown away.

In addition to the special long-throw rod, but also with a special long-throw wheel, this kind of reel and freshwater used in the long-throw wheel is basically the same, the only difference is that all the reels inside the sea fishing, bearings and other parts are generally treated with anti-corrosion, because the corrosiveness of seawater is very strong, if you use ordinary freshwater reels, then you play 2 times of sea fishing, the inside of the reel will be rusty, basically scrapped.

This kind of long-throw rod distinguishes the toughness of the rod body according to the weight of the object thrown away, the scientific name is the hammer load, and then the hammer load of the rod is marked on the rod body, so that the user can see at a glance, and can decide how big the lead sinker and bait to hang on according to the hammer load, so that the design performance of the rod body can be brought into play, and the safety of the rod body can be protected.

The hammer load is generally marked with a number according to the Japanese custom, such as No. 1, No. 30, etc., No. 1 = 3.759 grams, the larger the number of the long casting rod body is harder, the tougher, the greater the amount of throwing force that can be withstanding, and the heavier the weight of the rod body. As for why we should use the Japanese habit to label fishing rods, this author is not in a rut, the standardization of fishing rods is carried out in Japan, just like we use kilograms and kilometers.

There are many fish that are targeted for beach fishing, but they are not very large, and they belong to small marine fish that prefer to live in shallow coastal waters, and the fish produced in the coastal waters of each country are different, and the types of fish in the temperate zone and the tropics are also very different, so there is no fixed target fish.

Rock fishing, this rock word refers to the reef in the sea, breakwater and other things, these places due to the complex environment, moderate water depth, become a lot of marine fish hiding and feeding places, but also become an important place for sea fishing enthusiasts.

Theoretically, any rod equipped with a reel is fine, because it is done high on the reef, and the depth of the water is enough to meet the fishing needs, and there is basically no need to throw the bait very far. However, anglers have the spirit of excellence, and in the process of long-term struggle with fish, they have summed up a lot of experience, so there is a special fishing rod suitable for this environment and fishing method, which is called a rock fishing rod.

The shape and principle of the rock fishing rod are similar to the long-throw rod, but its rod body is thinner, the number of nodes is more, and the wire loop is more, because there is no need to throw heavy objects into the distance, so the hammer load of the rock fishing rod is very small, and the general use is from No. 1 to No. 4, with a length of 4.5 meters to 6.3 meters.

There is also a kind of heavy rock fishing, its target fish are big guys in deep water, tens of kilograms are very common, hundreds of kilograms are not impossible, so the poles of heavy rock fishing are relatively special, I will not introduce too much here, because there are too few places to do heavy rock fishing, everyone knows the way to know the road to become.

Beach fishing, rock fishing, these two fishing methods together, can not catch up with the boat fishing method is complex, if what is the real sea fishing, then you have to be the first to push boat fishing, because boat fishing can cover all the fishing techniques of beach fishing, rock fishing, and can catch all the target fish of beach fishing and rock fishing, and beach fishing and rock fishing due to the limitation of fishing positions, most of the marine fish with these two fishing methods are unable to catch.

But boat fishing is relatively stricter on time, economic ability, body, and natural environment, first of all, you have a boat that can go to sea, whether you rent or buy; Secondly, you have to have enough time, because boat fishing has to go to sea, especially deep-sea boat fishing, and it often takes several days to go out of the boat; Then you have to have a good body to deal with the harsh conditions on the sea, and you have to have some basic nautical knowledge; In the end, you still have to live by the sea, and you can't go fishing from Xinjiang to Hainan Island every day.

These conditions invisibly limit many fishing enthusiasts from boat fishing, so beach fishing and rock fishing are used instead of boat fishing, so that you can enjoy the fun of fishing in the sea without spending so much time and money.

There are so many types of boat fishing that you could write a book to describe them in detail, so here I can give you a brief explanation. Since boats can be moved on the sea, theoretically speaking, as long as there are fish in the sea, you can catch them, so you can't prescribe what kind of fishing tackle to use according to our human subjective consciousness, but you should equip your own fishing tackle according to the characteristics of the fish you want to catch.