HOUYHNHNM FISHING CLUB's first battle. We went to Kameyama Dam to catch lunker size black bass!

HOUYHNHNM FISHING CLUB" is newly established as the next community after "HOUYHNHNM Running Club♡"! When we talked to various people, they told us that they had fished several times in their childhood and remembered the fun and excitement of catching fish, but had not done so since they became adults. I am sure anglers can relate to this, but there are so many attractions to fishing that get you hooked, and you enjoy it even more than when you were a child. In order to experience this firsthand, we, almost amateurs, actually went fishing. There are various types of fishing, such as ocean fishing and mountain stream fishing, but we started with bass fishing, which has a high affinity with fashion. How did the first battle of the "HOUYHNHNM FISHING CLUB" turn out?

Photo_Takuma Utoo

Text_Shogo Komatsu

Illustration_TOMASON

Edit_Yosuke Ishii

Crying overtime in the light rain! Bumping through a cranky bus!

After lunch, we all returned. The faces of the fishermen have changed from the morning when they just started fishing, and they are now in serious mode rather than enjoying themselves. We had about three hours left. We quickly got into the boat and started fishing again.

The weather had managed to hold off until a while ago, but it finally started pouring. However, everyone seemed so focused on the work that they did not care.

Ishii:Earlier, it was fun just throwing and reeling, but I'm no longer satisfied with that. I still want to fish! Above all, I want a picture of me catching a black bass for an article (laughs). I used to use topwater, but I'm switching to a worm that had a good reputation on the Internet!

Ichikawa:I had planned to take my time with worms in the afternoon, but since it started raining, I got greedy again and shifted to reeling lures. I kept on reeling the lure with no effort, hoping to get a sudden strong bite, but it didn't work. I tried everything I could think of, including light rigs with tiny worms and the popular high-specific-gravity no-sinker worms, but they were all unresponsive. It's not good. ......

How about Matsushita & Ikemoto pair? Did you catch any fish?

Ikemoto:You haven't caught a fish yet. I am now thinking, "I'm going to catch it with this one cast! I'm reeling in each cast carefully, thinking "I'm going to catch it on this one cast! I don't have anything else to think about, or perhaps I am happy that I don't even have work on my mind (laughs). All I can think about is fishing. This is what I call immersion.

Matsushita:Who will catch the biggest bass? I don't mean, "Who's going to catch the biggest bass? I alternated between two different types of tricks and added some action to my rod. Mr. Komatsu said, "I caught it! How was it?

It was a rooting fish. While I was getting burnt out with Mr. Wusutao, trying different lures and changing spots, the time was really up. With our hair pulled back, we returned to the pier.