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. The store has been around since 1902 no less and they
sold a lot of traditionally oriented fly fishing gear as well as the
new stuff. I saw among other things some really nice looking split cane
rods ranging from 150.000 yen to 450.000 yen.

A significant number of the higher priced collectible cane rods are finding
their way to Japan.

I bought a couple of
flies, a fly box and a book on New Zeeland fishing as I'm planning on
ending my stay in Asia with a trip down there to do some serious
fishing together with riverman (Myron Buck).

In years back when the federation of fly fisher's newsletter was more like a
newspaper than a magazine, there was a japanese member who wrote of trout
fishing in Japan. He had a way of describing the scenery which sounded
pretty cool. You might want to check it out.