Fishing for Japan's Tinny and Tasty Wakasagi! - A Fish Even My Wife Actually Likes to Eat!

I could not see Mount Fuji but I knew it was there. Maybe I had seen it towering over Lake Kawaguchi so many times it was burned into my memory. Maybe it was some "primitive" part of the human brain that can feel a presence. It was a foggy and rainy day to spend wakasagi fishing. It was a foggy and rain-filled day that I spent on a dome ship in Lake Kawaguchi fishing for Wakasagi. Four of us came to fish for the whole day. Most people came for just a 3 or 1-and-a-half-hour fishing trip. Last year I had done the 3-hour trip but this year I wanted to spend all day on the boat. It rained off and on all day and at one point high winds hit Kawaguchiko. Wakasagi are a species of smelt. Origionally found in Hokkaido they where introduced to many lakes in Japan. Beacuse they look so close to the Delta Smelt from North America they where believed to be the same species at one point. The state of California in the United States introduced Wakasagi to their waterways thinking they were Delta Smelt The fishing method we are using is similar to fishing in an ice shanty. The dome ships have seats and holes that you fish from. The rod is a sensitive ice fishing rod, so short and sensitive. However, they can be even more sensitive than the one that I rented. After a day of fishing, we loaded back onto the small boat to get back to shore. If I had brought my own rods I could have fished for the rest of the day for the bass or carp in Kawaguchiko. Those fishing on a 1.5 or 3 hour...