So my daughter, just loves Japan and everything associated with it. She is in a PhD program at U. Penn in Asian Studies and has lived in Japan for 8 months last year (during the earthquake and nuclear reactor meltdown). She has been studying in Japan, but is home now for this semester.
She has taken us away this weekend (Fri - Sun) to a B&B in the mountains of Virginia. It is a Japanese B&B on 175 acres of trees, meadows, and two ponds!!! I have been eating Japanese food with chopsticks, wearing Japanese clothing (Yukata), and slippers, and bathing in Japanese baths (sento).
Thank goodness I brought my fishing rod. I grabbed a bass rod and some bass lures before I headed out the door. Mostly a couple colors of #4 mepps spinners. What won't hit a mepps spinner? Last night I hit one of the ponds to "scope" it out. I was looking for dropoffs, deadwood, points, tree overhangs, etc. I made a few casts, but no takers. I had a few small fish follow my bait, but no big fish. We are going to hike the mountain today and later I will hit the other pond.
Time to get out of my Japanese clothes and back into jeans, duckboots, and sweatshirt. I hope the bass are bitting later today
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