3連休の中日、日曜は九十九里浜にサーフ釣りに。
昨日は家族サービスでバーベキューになったので釣りに行けず、3連休最終日はどうやら一日中雨の模様なのでラストチャンス。
前日、バーベキューの後に庭の芝刈り・植木の手入れをやったせいで体が非常にきつい状況だったけども、どうにか4時おき、5時出発、6時釣り開始の日程で。
今日の潮は小潮。干潮が5時なので釣り始めはちょうど潮が動いている頃かなという感じ。理由は把握していないけども、ここのところ風が強いため、波は比較的高く、サーファーが群れをなして波と戯れていました。
この日もいつもの通り、サイレントアサシンで釣り開始。PE1.5号でちゃんとリーダーも30lbの適切な太さのものを付けてぶん投げると、若干後ろからの追い風というのもあり、ぶっ飛んで気持ち良い。
ただシンキングタイプはスローリトリーブだとあんまり泳がないため、普通の巻き速度だと振動が感じられず、釣ってる感じがしない。
なのでフローティングに切り替えて黙々とキャスト。
いつもの開始早々に釣れるパターンもなく、あー今日は厳しいかなぁと思いながらも、離岸流のポイントの間を移動しながらひたすらキャスト。
秋風が吹いて、首元にすこし寒さを感じるけども、ウェダーの中の足は冷たさはまだ感じぬほどで、汗はかかず、釣りはしやすい気候でした。
しばらくすると海に向かって斜め左後ろから右前方向に強く風が吹くようになってきました。
後ろからの追い風なのでルアー自体は気持ちよく飛んでいくものの、ラインが右に大きく流され、まっすぐ投げて巻いてきても、右からルアーが帰ってくる始末。
真横にラインが入る形になるため、サーファーがエントリーするときに引っかかる可能性があり、気を遣いながらの釣りになりました。
９時まで同じサイレントアサシンのフローティングを投げ続けるも何も音沙汰なし。ルアーを変えるか、とおもい、熱砂メタルドライブに。
だいぶ使い続けて、未だに釣れておらず、針もサビサビでボロボロ。。。
良い感じでぶっ飛んでくれて、ブリブリとワームの振動を感じながらリトリーブ。
まっすぐ投げてもコの字型にルアーが戻ってくるので、離岸流の左側にポジショニングし、ちょうど離岸流のところを上手く通るように投げつづけること３０分。グンっ！と強い引きが。
ちょうど離岸流の流れと合わさったのか、結構強い引き！やった釣れた！と嬉々として巻き続け、確認したのは40cmほどのソゲ。
よし、坊主は免れた〜！と砂浜に向かって引っ張り続けるも、いかんせん遠浅のため砂浜が遠い、、、 手元に寄ってきたときにはもう抵抗する力もなく、流れるように引きずられていたので油断してテンションを掛けずに誘導していたら、バシャッバシャッ！
虚しくも針が外れ、ゆらゆらとソゲちゃんは泳いで行ってしまいました。。。。
しょせんソゲサイズではあったものの痛恨の極み。。。。
サーフ釣りの１匹の価値はでかい。。。
その後、めげずに11時まで釣り続けましたが、案の定、ノーバイトで終了。
もしかしたら針も錆びてるし、昔、根掛かりしたのを無理矢理外したときに1本後ろのフックが広がってるから上手くフッキングできていなかったのかなぁと考察。道具の手入れは大切。
これで九十九里のサーフ釣り、４戦２匹１バラシ、１坊主。まぁサイズはなかなか上がらないけど、福岡のときと比べると比較的釣れている方なんじゃないかなと自分的には思っています。
On the middle day of a 3-day weekend, I went surf fishing at Kujukuri Beach on Sunday.
Yesterday, we had a family barbecue as part of our family service, so I couldn't go fishing. The final day of the 3-day weekend seems to have rain all day, so it's the last chance.
The day before, I had to do yard work like mowing the lawn and taking care of the plants after the barbecue, so my body was in a very tough condition. But somehow, I managed to wake up at 4 o'clock, leave at 5, and start fishing at 6.
Today's tide was low tide. Since low tide is at 5 o'clock, I thought it would be a good time to start fishing when the tide is just starting to move. I don't know the reason, but the wind has been strong here lately, so the waves were relatively high, and surfers were gathered, playing with the waves.
On this day as well, I started fishing with my usual Silent Assassin. I attached a suitable thickness leader of 30lb to PE1.5 line, and when I cast it, there was a slight tailwind from behind, making it fly far and feel good.
However, the sinking type didn't swim much at a slow retrieval speed, and at a normal winding speed, I couldn't feel the vibration, and it didn't feel like I was fishing. So I switched to floating and cast silently.
There was no pattern of catching fish early as usual, and I thought, "Oh, today might be tough," but I kept casting relentlessly while moving between points of offshore flow.
The autumn wind was blowing, and I felt a bit of coldness around my neck, but my feet inside the waders were not yet cold enough to be felt, I didn't sweat, and the weather was conducive to fishing.
After a while, the wind from behind on the left-rear side started to become strong, blowing towards the right-front direction. Since it was a tailwind from behind, the lure itself flew nicely, but the line was swept to the right, and even if I cast it straight and reeled it in, the lure kept coming back from the right.
Since the line entered horizontally, there was a possibility of getting caught when surfers entered the water, so I had to be cautious while fishing.
I continued to cast the same Silent Assassin floating lure until 9 o'clock, but there was no sign of any bites. I thought about changing the lure and switched to the Hot Sands Metal Drive.
I had been using it for a while, and it still hadn't caught anything, and the hook was rusty and worn out...
It flew nicely and I could feel the vibration of the lure while reeling it in. Even if I cast it straight, the lure would come back in a zigzag shape, so I positioned myself on the left side of the offshore flow and continued to cast for about 30 minutes. Bam! I felt a strong pull.
It seemed to have coincided with the current of the offshore flow, and it was quite a strong pull! I thought, "I got one!" and joyfully kept reeling in. What I confirmed was a flatfish(Soge) of about 40cm.
Alright, I escaped the skunk! But the shore was far away due to the shallow water. By the time it got closer to me, I had no strength to resist, and I was being dragged like a current, so I didn't relax and guided it without applying tension. Then, splash! The hook came off in vain, and the flatfish swam away...
It was a small Soge, but it was a heartbreaking miss... The value of one catch in surf fishing is significant...
After that, I continued fishing without giving up until 11 o'clock, but as expected, no bites.
Maybe the hook was rusty, and I had forcibly removed it when it got snagged in the past, so the hook in the back had spread, and that might have affected the hooking. Taking care of your equipment is important.
So, in four surf fishing sessions at Kujukuri, I caught 2 fish, lost 1, and had 1 skunk. Well, the size hasn't been great, but compared to when I was in Fukuoka, I think I'm catching relatively well.