Last week while I was on one of my walks by a fairly large (by Japan standards) lake, I noticed the usual suspects out there fishing. It’s a pretty common sight, to see a fair number of usually older men sitting on their little stands, using their fishing umbrellas and packing all their gear in large camping bags.
They sit there for hours trying to catch these small fish which they then of course release. Most of them are using cane pole type fishing rods and few are authentic cane.
This time it was raining slightly and not many were there, but I did notice this one guy who looked like he was dressed more for the rice fields, and those fields would have been more than 50 years ago.
I didn’t want to stop too long on my walk nor did I want to draw attention to myself, so I took only this quick shot with my phone’s camera.
