02/November Fish's fins in English & in Japanese 
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3/August/2k2 I introduce my favorite sounds which is fitted for flyfishing mood. The musician is Matthew Lien who lives in Canada. Please click here and listen them. I like especially " two hundred days" |
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12/August-2k2 Welcome to my Kabazippo world Please click to enjoy my handcrafts. I bought a zippo advertising plate and modified today.   please move your mouse pointer on below photo  Kaba, polished bark of a cherry tree, shows the various color at the angle of a ray of light. Reflection makes various color tone delicately such as mahogany, russet, purple, orange, crimson red, light-brown, golden brown, silver-gray,,,,. As to varnish kill the tone I only do polishing by my hand with all my heart for my friends.  I feel at ease with my favorite bamboo pipe smoking and also with a gentle flame of Kabazippo. please move your mouse pointer on above photo so you can see a part of my Kaba crafting process.  Gen-san, Mr.Arakawa, Japanese friend of mine, is a honorary owner of Kabazippo #001. |
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11 May 2k2 new idea of a hook keeper of Feather in Heaven I picked and twisted a young tendril coil like below. This is very useful, it is easy and fast to attach the fly.  When I ordered this connoisseur 633 to Bjarne-san I said that I don't need a hook keeper. Then I thought I would find out a substitution of a something natural material for a hook keeper. At last I met a very good material. |
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08 May 2k2 I got a stem of Tokusa. I will use dried Tokusa for polishing my Kaba works. Tokusa is the same family of Tsukushi.  Scouring rush I like Tokusa green color too.   |
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April 21/02 twiggy bodkin  I made a new bodkin from a broken twig which I picked up at a dry riverbed of Uratanzawa last Saturday. As this color is like Kaba this may be a twig of Uratanzawa cherry trees or others. And I attached Kabacan to tippet winder which are hanged from my neck.. |
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April.13/02 Kaba work #5."Kaba-nipper" Midge fly nipper  (please move mouse pointer on the pic) Stalky black is nipped on the point of Kaba nipper. This is one of the most important item of my midge fishing. |
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April/07/2002 Kaba work #4."Kaba-can" Original Kaba can of silk fly line dressing on the briar Zippo. original silk line dressing is here  Can size is enough for our (Yume & I) fishing outing. (compared with Zippo lighter). Kaba's natural brilliance differs from angles of view. I love it. |
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April/03/2002 Kaba work #3."Kaba-kin" A tying tool, the Kaba bodkin . I use this bodkin for removing quick-drying glue(as head-cement) from the eye of the finished fly.  The Kaba is fitted to a core of a part of hexagonal bamboo rod which was gifted last year from Bjarne-san.and is adhered by quick-drying glue. The cap of the needle is also made from Kaba.having a core of small plastic tube. |
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March.23.2002 Kaba work #2. " Kaba-holder" Tippet holder New version made from the bark of mountain cherry "Ohyama-zakura". I will add some original works of Kaba, cherry tree bark, on this page soon. Kaba is one of the most beautiful handcrafting natural materials of Japan. I like it.  beautiful natural brilliance of the bark.only by polishing without any lacquering tippet winder  Dawn redwood,metasequoia pine corn |
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Yume's Casting. (my daughter 6 years old) She performed by following the example of my casting. I taught her duns of mayflies, stoneflies, and also I taught that when the stream passes over the shallow it sounds like chuckling of boys and girls. She is using Feather in Heaven & Heart to Heaven.(the rod and the reel in the photo)  Yesterday(3/9) I visited Youzawa fishing area with Yume, my daughter 6-years-old. We spent wonderful time at the streamside. We roasted steak and cooked noodle and ate them all with rice balls "Onigiri" in the warm sunlight of early spring. Yume was playing with stones of riverbed and with a pan scooping water of the stream. The mayflies are hatching and duns are on the surface of the stream but there are no yamame rising to bite them. I think, because Yume is noisily playing at the dry riverbed. During our meal( riverbed turn to be still ) , one rise occurred in the stream. And I fortunately hooked the yamame and Yume scooped it with a pan and released soon. We smiled together. We hooked only this one but spent many good time. |
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02/23/2002 my hand-crafted New type spool (tippet holder), having tippet cutter   This serves both as spool and #32 fly holder and fly-display (move mouse pointer on each pics) are made from cork too.  |
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Jan.21.2002 Fly Casting, it is old and it is new. My bamboo rod casting  quoted from "A FLY FISHER'S LIFE" by Charles Ritz Basically I cast like Ritz style I keep in mind tracing just the same but the opposite movement of wrist, arm, elbow,and shoulder either in the forward cast and in the back cast Imaging simply this I take short stroke and cast slowly. I do not drift but push and pull my wrist at either 11 o'clock positions in the long cast. This is my bamboo rod casting at present. I will change my way when I experience seeing or knowing better way than above.  Yume is running around me and the background is forest of bamboo. * And F.I.B.H of Fries Rod is bending naturally. (click to know much more about F.I.B.H in English or in Japanese) |
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Favorite quote; Dec.2.2001 I fish because I love to ; ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, because only in the woods can I find solitude without loneliness; ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Rovert Traver because I can get my indescribable smile through it; because can also feel at ease,,,, Bambriarsilk another quote, Jan.6.2002 I do, however, insist that no other organized joy has values comparable to the outdoor experience... The joyous rush of the brook, the contemplation of the eternal flow of the stream, the stretch of forest and mountain all reduce our egotism, soothe our troubles and shame our wickedness. Herbert Hoover |
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about master eye Nov.3.2001  Vincent Carmen Marinaro Many trout feed on only one side of their face that is, they take a fly from either the left or right on the drift. This leads to the speculation that trout may have a master eye. quoted with photos from his book "IN THE RING OF THE RISE" I consider that a master eye must be the eye of watching insects and another eye must be the eye of looking out especially a flyfisher, you and I.. When trout open and move their pectoral fin they are feeding on. So that I need to present my fly along the lane of master eye. I can hardly do it but I'm very interested in finding the lane of trout's master eye. For me Good presentation is to put my fly just on the lane, The lane exist under the surface or on the surface or in the air.   drawn by myself To hook in the air!! It is the most difficult way in fishing techniques, I think so. Japanese traditional TENKARA fisher Mr. Hirotoki Kuwabara can do this.  quoted from his book " How to enjoy Kebari-fishing" drawn by himself ISBN4-331-40030-1 C2076(Japanese only) 1978, Hirotoki Kuwabara |
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Kaba work #1."Kaba-winder" tippet winder  a flyfishing tackle which I designed in order to protect birds, habitant of the flyfishing field. Cherry tree's bark and seed of Yasyabushi tree ( like tiny pine-cone) In the fishing field I don't want to abandon disused nylon tippet. I don't want to see a bird intertwined by nylon tippet or leader. I wind up disused tippet on this tool. You can see the small slit on the both side of parts of bark( we call kabazaiku)
You can pinch the end of tippet to slit. Yasyabushi-cone can holds tippet. After fishing you can cut off tippet to be small trash by scissors and put into a trash can at your home. A gap between curved plate and cone are used to insert the tip of blade of scissors. beautiful individuality  2-yasyabushi pine corns, unknown pine corn, metasequoia pine corn  roll over : please move your mouse pointer on the photo and click.  And I remember the days of my high school age , about 35 years ago. This is the badge of Seiseiko high school.  a blossom and leaves of Yama-zakura, mountain cherry. back to previous  |
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Knots for silk line, silk leader, silk tippet. 1) Silk Line to Silk Leader ( perfection loop is applied for Leader butt) quoted from  The Castwell-Line to Leader Knot2) Silk Leader to Silk Tippet I introduce Japanese knot. We call " A PINE NEEDLES KNOT "  First you make two loops like below at one end of the tippet, This knot is very useful for you to exchange your tippet.  |
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