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Ayu fishing in Japan.
Ayu fishing is one of the several narrowly defined styles of fishing in Japan.
Ayu fishing was practiced by Samurai as long as 430 years ago. It uses very long rods (7–11 meters) and fly, but fly-casting is not required. Ayu fishing originated at least 430 years ago [1] when anglers discovered they could dress their flies with pieces of fabric and use those to fool the fish. The art became more refined as the samurai, who were forbidden to practice martial arts and sword fighting in the Edo period, found this type of fishing to be a good substitute for their training: the rod being a substitute to the sword, and walking on the rocks of a small stream good leg and balance training. "Only the samurai were permitted to fish. So, the samurai who enjoyed ayu fishing would take sewing needles and bend them themselves, and make their own flies by hand.
Ayu fishing may be done with lures or with a live decoy. As ayu fish are very territorial, they are likely to attack the live decoy fish used as bait.[2]
This fishing method based on habit of strife among Ayu is called Tomozuri (ja:友釣り friend fishing) in Japanese and deemed unique in Japan, but research is propagated from Korean Peninsula as well.[3]
^Funabashi, Haruo (2009). Timeless Ventures: 32 Japanese Companies that Imbibed 8 Principles of Longevity. New Delhi: Tata McGraw-Hill Pub. Co. pp. 95–96. ISBN 9780070077829.
^Waldman, John (2005). 100 Weird Ways to Catch Fish (1st ed.). Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books. pp. 6–7. ISBN 0811731790.
^鈴木康友「友釣りの歴史と文化」『日本水産学会誌』2010年 76巻 3号 pp.419-420, doi:10.2331/suisan.76.419, 日本水産学会 (With Japanese: Yasutomo Suzuki, Titled history and culture of Tomozuri, The Japanese Society of Fisheries Science (日本水産学会) 2010 Vol.76 Issue 3,
with Korean roots; Archived 2017-04-06 at the Wayback Machine left side 3rd paragraph in Japanese: 友釣りは日本独自、一方「朝鮮半島から伝わった」
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