Fishin - Shimoda Style

Up here in northern Japan, come the end of fall, the salmon start a-runnin. Once they start running, there are salmon everywhere. There is a small town just southeast of here called Shimoda. They have a salmon festival every year where they block off a part of the river ever year and let the people come in an catch the salmon. The catch is this is pole-free fishing. Chlöe, Tally, & I had to give this a shot. Check out some of the video and pictures below.






Right as the gun fires, everyone makes a mad dash for the fish. There are some small but mostly, 18 - 24 inches and at least a couple of pounds.





After the catch they make sure they are not just faking being caught. I don' t know how many fish each year jump off the butcher table and safely navigate thier way back to the river but this probably prevents that from happening.





More blood and guts than a Quentin Tarantino movie.