Chigasaki Gyokō

Chigasaki fishing harbor is an important fishing harbor, mainly specializing in the processing of tuna. The harbor also has a quay which can accommodate sailboats from neighboring marinas.
Why does this harbor become flourished as commercial fishing and important fishing harbor for its catch of tuna? Because submarine features of the this harbor has a complex topography, this provides a home for a wide variety of sea living creatures, especially, a tuna supports the ecosystem of this ocean’s area. A tuna eats smaller a sardine or a shrimp than themselves, but they are eaten by larger a shark than themselves. So, this area’s tune is the center of the sea’s ecosystem.
Other features of this harbor is very near at a deep scattering layer. No sooner had we arrived at 10 kilometers offshore by fishing boat than there was an ocean deep, 700 meters.
In early morning, I and my friend were on fishing board from Chigasaki’s fishing port. The passage fare was 10000yen. It took us a hour to reach a good fishing spot. As soon as we reached at them, we dropped a line. What ways of fishing at here did we choice? It was «komase», in other words, «chum» ground bait. The fishing ways from fishing boat around this aria have two methods. One is lure fishing, and the other is this Komase, that is to say, using prawns as for bait. Firstly we bait the hook, and at the upper of the hook’s line, tie up a bait box that was packed with prawns as a groundbaits. As soon as the skipper found the image of a shoal of fish from fishfinder to looking for fish. he stopped his boat and informed us of the depth that a fish swam at, we listened to it and dropped our line into the depth. Every time the boat stops, we dropped it by the depth of sea that a fish swam at. We repeated this steps until the skipper said to us «Go back to the Chigasaki’s port».
This day and time, our aim was to fishing for a tune using prawns as for bait. But the captured fish is nothing. Although we were not disappointingly able to fish a tune, the skipper and his family serviced us with cold barley tea and cold Udon after we landed from the boat. I absolutely felt delicious