River Monsters

[Andy_1984]

OK - I confess - watching Robson Greem has just had me almost peeing myself with laughter

Last night I was doing nothing more than innocently channel-surfing, looking for somethiong I could watch that would not tax the grey matter too much.

Entirely co-incidentally, up pops Mr Green, fliiting about over a large part of Japan.

 

................ which happend to coincide nicely with the fact that we've currently got a couple of Japanese girls (friends of my other half) over to visit for a few weeks, who were mildly amused - to say the least - at seeing him on UK TV, fishing in Japan.

 

The best bit? We were privvy to ACCURATE translations of what the Japanese locals were REALLY saying, rather than the program offerings ... totally priceless, and I cant imagine him getting many personal invites to return, based upon his perceived angling skills

 

That said ... some very 'different' stuff going on over there. One clip had him fishing with what was essentially a telescopic pole (worth neck-end of three grand!), the 'bait' being a live fish of maybe 6", lightly hooked lip and anal fin, with a trailing treble ... the idea being that the 'bait' swims in amongst the target prey fish, which are then foul-hooked by the trailing treble.

 

The REALLY illogical bit? The 'target' fish were, on average, smaller than the bait in use!

 

What a D***

[Steve Walker]

Traditional Japanese method - who are we to judge?

[Andy_1984]

Not knocking tradition.

[Steve Walker]

He has had a go at a few local practices, handlining, nets, diving, even cormorant fishing in China!