First Decoboco Fishing Tournament

 

 
August 15, 2008
Historic tournament participants: 3 people
Apparently this doesn’t count as a real tournament, but we went fishing anyway.
Even for someone like me who loves the heat, it was scorching and intense!
Let’s get started ★
Decoboco, the boss, and Ninpoko—three of us kicked things off ★
The boss nailed the hole shot—impressive! ★
Ninpoko chased after him and came back with a catch and release—that’s pretty cool too!
As for me… two hours in and I had nothing ♪ That’s just like me!
I kept running into trouble with the fishing rods. One had tangled line that frayed instantly, another had a broken float that couldn’t be adjusted,
and looking closer, one had terrible weights, and another snapped the moment I touched it—I swapped out about seven rods total (100 yen each).
I was basically complaining the whole time—even when I heard “Again?”—but I didn’t get mad, no way.
Since two hours wasn’t going to cut it, we decided to keep going to the end and settle it by final weight!
The boss got cornered by someone from the workshop next door and got lectured.
“Don’t do it that way! Do it like this!” they said, and even changed his settings. The boss had been doing pretty well up to that point,
but then he dropped out of the competition.
Ninpoko came up with a fishing method—long-line edge fishing—that not many people do because it’s rare to get the chance, and he and the boss
were in a dead heat!
What a surprise dark horse! ★
And whenever a fish took a long time to land, everyone would
chant “Paj-jeh-ro ♪ Paj-jeh-ro ♪ Paj-jeh-ro ★” Come on, paj-jeh-ro!
We couldn’t stop laughing while fishing.
In the end, we’d been fishing for five hours. I had some regrets wondering if I could have spent my time more meaningfully,
but Decoboco managed to pull off a comeback victory.
Since I started with nothing after two hours, the catch wasn’t worth writing about.
Thanks everyone for your hard work! ★