About “Chasing Yellowtail and Squid”
This blog is run by an angler who keeps heading out again and again in search of yellowtail (hiramasa) and bigfin reef squid (aori-ika). Here you’ll find fishing spot guides recommended from real trips.
For anyone thinking “I want to start catching yellowtail and squid!” or who feels their catch rate isn’t great, there’s plenty of helpful fishing know-how.
You’ll also find the “Clumsy Fishing Diary,” where a not-so-skilled admin shares water temperatures, sea conditions, and casual thoughts about fishing.
Find a Fishing Spot
Find a spot on the map
To look for fishing spots on a map → Here
To open the fishing-spot Google My Map → Here
Find a spot by fishing style
Find shore jigging spots → Here
Find eging (squid jigging) spots → Here
Find eging spots with night lights → Here
See the Central Wakayama Eging Run-and-Gun Course (Autumn) → Here
For spots recommended for spring squid → (Wakayama edition) (Sea of Japan edition)
See recommended rocky shores at low tide → Here
Watch how to reach the rocky shores on YouTube
This blog’s YouTube channel, where I introduce rocky-shore fishing spots and more → Here
Eging Tips & Getting Started with Eging
The “Getting Started with Eging” article → Here
- What do you need for eging?
- What exactly do you do when eging?
- Where are bigfin reef squid found?
- How can you cook aori-ika so it tastes great?
Articles on improving your eging results → Here
- Tips for catching more squid
- How to eging more comfortably
- New eging-related products
A full list of eging-related articles → Here
Tips for catching squid even in tough water-temperature and tidal conditions → Here
Getting Started with Shore Jigging
The yellowtail (hiramasa), known as the “sprinter of the rocky shore,” is a dream fish. Shore jigging can also bring in buri (Japanese amberjack), amberjack (kanpachi), rockfish, and sea bream. If you want to start shore jigging — from targeting small fish off the breakwater to chasing big migratory fish from the rocks — use this as your guide. It’s written in detail so that even a complete beginner can follow along, including some background on the migration of buri and hiramasa and the key to matching the bait. Shore casting is covered too.
Read “Getting Started with Shore Jigging” here
- What you need to start shore jigging
- What kinds of fish you can catch with shore jigging
A full list of shore jigging & shore casting articles → Here
The Clumsy Fishing Diary & Casual Notes
This is the fishing diary of a not-so-skilled angler (the admin).
I try to jot down water temperatures and how crowded the spots were, so please use it as a reference if you like.
To check the “fishing diary — water temperatures, catches, and where fish are biting right now,” or to read “other casual notes about fishing” → Here
◎ Feel free to link to this site — it’s very welcome. Just please, no slander or abuse. Sending a URL to a fishing buddy over LINE like “let’s go here” is handy too, I think.
◎ If you’d like to say “let me use this photo,” feel free to reach out via Facebook. Links are very welcome, but please refrain from copying or using images without permission.
◎ I don’t have an RSS feed set up yet. When I update the fishing know-how pages and the diary, I plan to post to Facebook as well. If you enjoy the blog, I’d be grateful if you’d like the Facebook page. (That way update notices go out through Facebook too.)
◎ If you like the blog, please check out the YouTube channel as well.
(Bonus) Find a BBQ Spot
I won’t go so far as to say “after fishing, it’s BBQ time!” — but eging through the night into morning, then grilling a whole aori-ika for breakfast? That sounds like a pretty wonderful day off to me.
Just like the fishing-spot search, you can easily find BBQ spots using Google Maps. “BBQ spots” here includes beaches, campgrounds, and riversides too, so if you’re looking for a hidden BBQ gem, take a look. (It’s a bonus.)
To look for BBQ spots → Here
A Quick Apology Before Introducing Fishing Spots
“Don’t go exposing my secret fishing spot!” — some of you reading this may feel that way, and I have received messages like that. Let me apologize in advance. I’m sorry.
It’s true that among anglers, there are people who hold firmly to the idea that “casually sharing fishing spots is taboo.” I don’t deny that view at all — in fact, I used to feel the same way.
But I think that in about 99% of cases, the very spots people don’t want revealed were first learned from someone else or seen somewhere. And discovering brand-new spots on your own is pretty difficult — and can be quite dangerous, too. So I share spots in the spirit of “let’s all find lots of good spots together and enjoy fishing.”
I run this site hoping it can help people enjoy fishing as fishing ≠ gloomy; fishing = a stylish sport + a little trip + a good hobby that gives life some energy. If I’ve upset anyone, I’ll keep working hard enough to introduce new spots that make up for it, so I’d be grateful if you’d watch over me warmly.
I’d be even happier if you’d think, “This is the spot I saw on that blog, so let’s clean it up before we leave.”
I once got a comment along the lines of “are you an idiot?”, which spooked me into disabling comments — but once I feel “it’s probably okay now,” I’d like to turn comments back on so we can share the latest info together.