Fishing in Nagato!

I really wanted to go fishing so my friend Keigo took me and Amy, the newest Benda teacher, to Nagato for fishing! We drove an hour to the city where we went to the awesome beach this summer and he took us to the fishing docks. After we bough bait and Keigo set up our lines, he asked if I knew how to cast. Duh! I'm a Minnesotan girl! I've been doing this since I was three! I casted off the edge and voila, within 60 seconds I was reeling in a small fish. Go me! Except it was a poisonous fish! Keigo said not to touch it (it's in the spikes) and he unhooked it with the help of the fishing bucket. Here's Keigo saving the day.

Sorry little dude! So here is me with my proper first non-deadliest catch fish. We mostly caught aji, and they were small but apparently the larger mama size ones are good to eat and tasty.

It's a strange way to fish by putting frozen shrimp in the blue bucket bottom and a couple of hooks up the line. In Minnesota I am the Crappie Queen and I maintained the same title in Japan, every time I casted, I pulled up a new fish! Within no time we had a small bucket of, well, mostly Casey-fish.

But that's ok! Amy beat me by catching two fish at one time twice! So I'm sure everyone was fed up with me constantly yanking fish out of the water and Keigo gave me a different pole to try. More like trolling but in an ocean, I let it sink between the rocks where he said there must be big fish and what do I catch? A TINY PUFFER fish!

So when we finished the fishing we needed some lunch! But of course we let all the fishies go because they were babies. Then after that Keigo took us to a trout farm! It was gorgeous! I not only wanted to toss a line in the water, but really wanted to see if I could swim in it too. If only it wasn't prohibited.

One little trout in the water swimming. Where's Waldo!?

There was also a little dragon fountain that you could also drink the water from! I'm a Chinese zodiac dragon, coincidence? HMMMM....

The last thing was waving bye to the buddah in his tree fort. What an excellent day. About time I got to do something exciting! Weekend of the month!