The Rockfish Files (LRF & Soft Lure Special Edition).

I read about LRF for the first time on the web about two years ago, in some Japanese site; I saw Japanese anglers with those thin and ultralight rod fishing “mebaru style”. I saw them catching the same little fish I caught when I was a child with a pole rod without reel searching them between the rocks. Came back in my mind a period of great great fishing fun. An enjoying fishing philosophyP..a way of life I thought lost forever........

Here come the second word: challenge. It’s about 5 years I totally left the natural baits for lure fishing: the challenge was just to catch the fish of my childhoodPP.but with lures.

This aim remained in stand-by for a while, than I decided to try an initial approach. But I didn’t want to try with “adapted” tackle, so I bought an Ultralight spinning rod with solid carbon upper part of the tip, a Shimano Diaflash ULS 237 0,8-8 gr.; than a Shimano Twin Power 2500 FC, a Sunline PE 6 lb spoolP..

I had everything I needPor not? What lures could I try? I find in the Maria range the Beak Heads, small jigheads from 1 to 3 gr. with a n.4 hook. Then some soft plastic lure: Maria Sea Monkey Maria Dart Squid Maria Shirasu Some very small metal jig River2Sea Searock 7gr.

Maria littlebit 5 gr.

And some strange Japanese jig: Osamu’s factory Corn.

My first time in LRF was quite comic; I feel strangeP.as I was making something with no senseP.the first 2-3 casts, thenPPSTRIKEP.well it’s quite comic to tell STRIKE for something like this: 211