Another old one from Sexy Loops When I first came to Japan, I thought I'd really get into bass fishing the lakes nearby but it just never happened. I tried, I really did, and despite catching a few largemouth I just couldn't really get into it. and I spent several years fishing almost exclusively for carp. I do fish for largies now and then from my float tube but they don't do it for me the way their little cousins do. Now, I love fishing for smallmouth bass, especially in the clear rivers around Tokyo. there's something about the way they inspect a hopper before sucking it under or smash a streamer on the pause that's just amazing. They're a perfect fly rod fish. Unfortunately, they're an invasive species here and we're supposed to kill them. I don't. Pretty much everyone here releases fish, and the only killing is through the bad handling that is sadly all too frequent here. The thing I have difficulty with is the evidence of my own observ
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