世界中のラッキークラフトファンの皆さま～！Daily Flash Minnow Weekly Reportになります！
前日に大雨が降り、明日の釣行は無理！！と思っていたが、ふっと以前から言われていたBossの言葉が頭を過ぎった【雨が降った翌日は意外と釣れるんですよ～！】釣行当日の朝、昨日の大雨とは正反対、快晴！釣行に行く事にした。
FM110用キャストロッドと底物用ドロップショットリグロッドも両手に持ち、Alamitos Bayに到着、風が海からビーチへの強めの向かい風のためロングキャストが不可能なので、今日のパターンとして考えたのは、ジェティーを移動！！FM110/PT100で満遍なく6方向にキャストし上層を狙い・上層でだめなら底狙いに変更し線釣り！ひとつのポイントに約10程度という若干早いペースでジェティーの先へとキャスト＆移動を繰り返す。異端、ジェティー先端まで到着！どのポイントでも反応が無く,ビーチに引き返す事にした。
なぜかこの日は諦めが悪く、車に要らない道具を戻しキャストロッド1本とFM/PT/PTDDのみを用意し、再度、ビーチとジェティーの角でFM110（オーロラブラック）でキャスト再開。しかし、反応無し・・・。次にPT100DDでキャスト！！
ズッドン！！当りが！！ゆっくり焦らず、ラインを巻き引き上げてみると！ヒラメです。今年初の陸っぱりからの魚です。
サイズは40cm(15インチ)と小さいがラッキークラフトのルアーで釣り上げた！！2011年、正月からの目標、陸っぱりからの1匹！
やっと目標達成！！これで、ボートに乗れそうです。
それでは皆さん！！ See you soon!
P.S. 日本出張の際に高額で購入したトリガーがやっと役に立ちました。
Sandy
The day before my fishing trip it rained pretty hard so I thought about canceling. But then I remembered what my boss had told me before, “The day after it rains, you can catch quite a few fishes~!” And the morning of my fishing trip, it was completely opposite of how it was yesterday, it was an amazingly sunny day! I immediately headed out to go fishing.
I grabbed a casting rod for the FM110 & a Drop Shot rig rod for the bottom surface and finally arrived at Alamitos Bay. The wind was blowing very strongly towards me so it was impossible for me to long cast. So I thought of a plan, I decided to move to the pier!! I was able to fully cast in 6 directions with the FM110 & PT100 and aimed the upper surface area. But when that didn’t work, I also tried aiming the bottom! I cast in a pretty fast pace at about 10 cast per spot while walking along the pier.
I then arrived at the end of the pier and still had absolutely no response so I decided to go back to the beach.
For some reason I didn’t want to give up. I went back to my car to drop off the materials I didn’t need and then grabbed only one casting rod, FM, PT, and PTDD lures with me. I went to the corner of the pier and beach. I started off casting the FM110 (Color: Aurora Black) but got nothing… I tried out the PT100DD right after.
Then… Bam!! I got a hit!! I tried not to panic and slowly retrieved… it was a Flounder (Hirame)!! This was my very first fish caught this year from Okappari (Shore fishing).
The size was about 40cm (15”) long and quite small, but I finally caught one with a Lucky Craft lure!! My goal since the 2011 New Year was to catch a fish from Okappari (Shore fishing)! And finally I met my goal!! Now I can go on the boat.
See you all soon!
P.S. The expensive trigger I bought on my Japan business trip finally paid off!
Sandy
