Takuya Oizuka has appeared in a certain section of the Yangtze River in China, Alaska in the United States, the Brazilian Amazon, the South American Republic of Suriname, Papua New Guinea, and Madagascar in Zambia. Takuya Otsuka focuses on discovering the incredible and exotic fish and is known as the "Monster Fish Hunter". He is not an absolute animal protectionist, but out of his love of fish, he uses hooks without inverted hooks to minimize the damage to them as much as possible.
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Takuya Ozza woke Upada from his sleep with the sound of a rapid rotation of the linear wheel, and he rushed to the fishing rod with one arrow step and grasped the fishing rod tightly. With that heavy pull, it was a big guy. This is the seventh day of Otsuka's waiting on the Coppenam River (Amazon Basin) in the Republic of Suriname. The set return date was imminent, and he was even ready to return without success.
The reel is still turning, and the big fish instantly pulls the fishing line out of 150 meters away, and together with the fishing rod is stretched out of an incredible arc, the fishing line is tightened to the limit and trembles at great speed, and even the thread has broken out. Ozza grabbed the fishing rod tightly, his body leaned back desperately, and the sweat on his forehead flowed all the way into his eyes, making him can't help but close his right eye. After a long stalemate, the opponent finally exhausted his strength, and a huge catfish with a body length of more than 2 meters was pulled out of the water.
Takuya Otsuka laboriously dragged the Amazon catfish onto the ship
This Amazon catfish (Piraíba Latin name Brachyplatystoma filamentosum) can reach a maximum length of 3 meters, is the world's most ferocious freshwater fish, only know that they are distributed in the Amazon basin in Brazil, swimming very fast, and there are still many blind spots for their diet and distribution, catching an Amazon catfish is the target of Otsuka's trip.
Takuya Oizuka, a native of Toyama Prefecture, Japan, is 30 years old, but his fishing experience dates back to when he was 5 years old. Since the age of 18, he has traveled to 37 countries around the world, exploring a variety of incredible and exotic fish, known as the "Strange Fish Hunter". The reason for embarking on this path in the first place is said to be to prove himself to his ex-girlfriend by becoming a "very powerful man who travels around the world". Since then, this big boy with a bit of a stunned green temperament has embarked on an adventure around the world without hesitation, and it has been 12 years.
The experience of fishing dates back to Takuya Otsuka when she was a child
In 12 years, he caught more than 50 species of huge fish called "strange fish" with a body length of more than 1 meter, leaving more than 100,000 fishing records, including many new species of fish that even biologists can't name and have never appeared in human vision before.
"The leader of the North Sea" - wolffish
You'll also catch strange things
Although he has loved to rejoice in the wild since he was a child, Oizuka is an out-and-out school bully. After graduating from high school, he was admitted to the Biology Department of the Faculty of Science at Tohoku University (a famous national university in Japan) with honors, and he began to focus on fish research, but his interest was obviously in the vast rivers and seas compared to the indoor aquarium.
In the face of fish, Ozza is always endlessly curious. He thought that there must be some special reason why some fish were particularly large or rarely discovered, and the search for these reasons came from the primitive impulses in his body, and he wanted to see more fish touched by his own hands. Otsuka is a veritable catfish expert who stands at the absolute forefront of catfish research. Commissioned by biologists, he also produces fish research reports to find and record the habits of The Amazon catfish from a science academy.
Tools are not a problem, bait is not an excuse, he seems to be favored by the god of luck, a handsome rod throwing action, and then the fish he wants will automatically be hooked, and the secret of a catch is that he fully understands the fish. He had caught small catfish from small tomatoes in a small ditch near his home, not because catfish fed on tomatoes, but because he knew that catfish would swallow objects that jumped on the surface of the water as flying insects.
But studying fish was just a habit he had with them, and what really drove him on adventures again and again was his endless passion for the fish itself.
The Atlantic sea carp (scientific name: Megalops atlanticus) is a well-known fish species in international fishing circles, with a strong body, weighing up to 160 kg and extremely difficult to catch. Riding a small boat to the open seas far from the shore, waiting for the big fish that will appear at an unknown time to be hooked, sounds like Hemingway's Sandiago. Although his luck was never bad enough to catch fish for 84 consecutive days, it was common to wait 4 or 5 hours without finding anything. Under the scorching sun, the light reflected from the sea surface pierced straight into the human eye, and the sweat had evaporated before it could flow down, and the waiting process was undoubtedly unbearable. Another burst of fishing line was pulled at great speed, and a large fish was hooked. Kotsuka pulled on the fishing rod and slowly closed the line, revealing a faint excitement. He had to do his best to stand still to prevent himself from being pulled into the sea, and in order to drain the fish's physical strength, he sometimes loosened the line to let the fish run hard, and sometimes tightened to pull the fish further. A long tug-of-war begins.
Two hours later, exhausted Otsuka took his last breath and pulled a giant tarpon up to 2.1 meters into the water.
Taking a picture with the fish he caught was the first thing to do afterwards. The treasure is generally held in front of his chest by fish that are larger than him, and he smiles proudly.
There is absolutely no need to take a barbed fishing hook, this is the rule that Kosuka has set for himself. Barbs exist to firmly hold the fish to prevent it from breaking free, but barbs and other multiple hooks can cause vicious damage to the fish. In order to return the fish he caught to the water, he set himself a second rule - refusing to use a fishing hook with a barb from the beginning.
A fishing hook without a barb
He is not an absolute animal protectionist, and he cannot do absolutely not disturb or harm, but out of his love for fish, he still wants to reduce the damage to them as much as possible. He was called a monster fish hunter, but he never thought of taking these fish for himself, and he took pains to catch the fish, never for the sake of gluttony, profit or killing. He fell in love with the process of chasing fish — waiting, playing games, conquering, and adrenaline rushing.
Unwilling to make a living from the rare fish they catch, life can only be tight. His younger brother, who is still two years younger, is still crammed into a compact room, and in order to save money, he often spends the night in the bathhouse with a sleeping bag. The main source of daily expenses is to make and sell fishing rods, contribute to fishing magazines, publish books, give lectures on strange fish and fishing consultants.
"Since you have chosen your preferred lifestyle, you are willing to bear everything else." Fish is a much more important existence to him than life.
When he releases the fish, he likes to hold the fish he caught and fall into the water on his back. Wipe a handful of water on his face, a mouthful of bright white teeth on his dark face, and smile like a teenager.
Resources:
Hiroyuki Kozuka
A video of Takuya Otsuka on the Hot Continent
Takashi Okamura's video about Takuya Kosuka