Continuing from my last post, I want to share a little more about my trip to Japan. Some of you already might know about the H-1 Grand Prix tournament held by Lucky Craft, and we were fortunate enough to be able to sponsor it again for the second time this year! All 5 competitions were held in the Kanto region and the 2012 H-1 GPX champion/AOY was earned by Mr. Sasaki who is also an editor of Basser Magazine. On the other hand, last year’s champion – Mr. Ito from Marukyu Co. was devastated from being so close to winning the tournament again landing in 2nd place. I actually went to Tonegawa with Mr. Ito on this trip to capture some good fishing spots and also comments on how the 5 intense competitions went. This film will soon be viewed on Enjoy DVD so please stay tuned!

As for fishing in Tonegawa, Mr. Ito amazingly caught 2 in the morning. I originally wanted to film some hard bait fishing as an H-1 extra edition clip – so I had Mr. Ito throw in some hard baits, but due to the condition he had to switch it to a Texas Rig & Neko Rig. Then he caught 2 with that. Afterwards Mr. Ito kindly gave me a – as he will call it -“Texas Training Session” and my Bass fishing skills definitely got better!

Next week 2012 H-1 GPX winner, Mr. Sasaki will be visiting the United States and hope he will enjoy and learn a lot about fishing here. So please stay tuned for that as well!

Sandy
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