Thread: Among giants….

I sometimes use real small hooks to ketch real small fish myself , not as small as what is posted but pretty small none the less .
one fish I managed to ketch was actually a real minnow

Arthur, microfishing is something I’ve only learned and experimented the last couple months….you can say I’m really late to the game. I learned of it through online blogs and YouTube videos from anglers such as yourself, but as mentioned by default I was already an avid multi species kinda guy having done it since 7. I also like to shout out to one microfishing/multi specie angler pioneering this concept- Ben Cantrell. Many microfishing articles mentioning the interesting places he’d been catching his large of over 600 as we speaks, really gets my blood boiling…lol.


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Ketchn, switching tactic and one's focus lots of time has positive affects...especially if that means preventing me from getting skunked...lol. However, even for the minnows, the Japanese anglers will want to catch only the smallest of them all. That's a cultural mindset i respect but never truly understand.

I once accidentally participated in micro fishing. I was trout fishing on the Spring River in Arkansas and there was a hatch of little blue winged olive mayflies going on with fish dimpling all over the place. I have a favorite emerger I fish on Arkansas tail races for those same hatches in size 18 on a 2x short hook that works great and so I put it on. I missed strikes on about 6 casts in a row and then finally hooked and caught a 4 inch minnow. Several fish later, I had caught at least 3 or 4 species of rough minnows all between 3 and 6 inches. That day I found out that I don't want to fish anything less than a size 12 or so fly and that streamers or very large stonefly nymphs are advised if I actually want to catch trout while fly fishing on the Spring River.

Man thanks for a great story…awesome read!


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In European “match” fishing, species doesn’t matter. Only total weight does. So, fishermen will often target a small fish called a bleak. They will often catch several hundred (or even several thousand) bleak in a match.

I think you'll enjoy this 15-minute video entitled "Fishing Crazy: In Pursuit of the Smallest Catch,"
produced by Japan's NHK Broadcasting company (similar to PBS or BBC)
about tiny fish fishing in Japan --

Fishing Crazy: In Pursuit of the Smallest Catch - 15 Minutes | NHK WORLD-JAPAN On Demand

This video provides a glimpse of just how serious the Japanese are about finesse fishing.

Yes kmorrow, that’s one video I also seen, very well made. Another is also by same producer…”Edo style” ( a type of goby fish) fishing Tokyo canals. Cheers!


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