I NEED A HIRO

Land-based sensei HIROAKI NAKAMURA shares his hard-won knowledge on catching the mighty barramundi without a boat

MANY people have sent me messages and emails that they could never catch barramundi on lure by land-based fishing.

I know that they are getting frustrated with that.

However, I won’t comment on specific cases. Many people care about the colour of the soft plastic lure. But, there is a more important thing than that in the case of the land-based barramundi fishing.

It is most important to synchronise the vibration of the swimming of the soft plastic lure and the water stream.

It is a good idea to have a technique effectively continuing the vibration in the water to arouse the baiting instinct of fish while suppressing the rotation of the softplastic-lure body caused by the water stream.

You need to reproduce normal swimming and irregular weak movements as if by the shaking of a tailfin of a real small fish in the shallow water.

We cannot tell anything to people except for the things we have experienced before.

This technique doesn’t call for special skill.

All you have to do is wind the fishing line steadily and retrieve the lure steadily in the shallow water. I can always feel like I’m going to hook a barramundi when I synchronise the vibration of the swimming of the soft plastic lure and the water stream.

It is very difficult to synchronise the vibration of the swimming of the soft plastic lure and the water stream when the salinity concentration of the seawater is lowered by heavy rain.

I went fishing at Channel Island on February 18. I was caught in a shower on the way.

It was very lucky that it cleared up at Channel Island. But thunder was rumbling from afar.

What I dread most is thunder in my land-based barramundi fishing.

The seawater was murky and muddy in some places.

I could synchronise the vibration of the swimming of the soft plastic lure and the water stream. As a result, I caught and released a barramundi on Zman MinnowZ 3” Goldrush.