Mountain fish on the brink: A journey through remote areas, mountains, rivers and snakeheads

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This book compiles the popular series "Mountain Trout on the Brink," which resumed in 2020 in FlyFisher. It lovingly describes the char and yamame trout that are barely hanging on to life today, as well as the environment that surrounds them. It's not just a photo collection that gives a real sense of their precious existence, but also an adventure story that records the journey to encounter them.

To capture this work requires a high level of fly fishing skills and experience, knowledge of the natural environment, photography and writing skills, as well as the leg strength to continue traveling deep into the mountains across the country. This is a job that only Sato Shigefumi could pull off.

Please enjoy the rare sight of them swimming somewhere in our country.

table of contents
Preface 003
Chapter 1 When the trout crosses the mountains 004
Chapter 2: Going through the small valleys of Southern Kyushu 012
Chapter 3: Chasing Iwana in the Shikoku Mountains - Revisiting the Journey 022
Chapter 4 The Mystery of Satokawa 034
Chapter 5: The rivers of southern Kyushu and the southernmost native yamame trout in Japan 042
Chapter 6 Sado Island Char Trip Part 1 056
Chapter 7 Sado Island Char Trip Part 2 070
Chapter 8 The Chars of Ihatov 082
Chapter 9: A Journey Around Kamekurai Char II 092
Chapter 10 Shikoku Amego and Parmark 102
Chapter 11 Onikobe Caldera and Native Iwana 114
Chapter 12 : The Chaos of Natural Hybridization 124
Chapter 13 Wandering around the Tsugaru Peninsula 134
Chapter 14 Benigogi146
Chapter 15 Hokuriku Recollections 158
Chapter 16 : 170 char populations left in a small stream in southern Hokkaido
Chapter 17 : The northernmost landlocked char in Honshu 182
Chapter 18 : Izu Peninsula, Walking through the valleys of the Amagi Mountains 196
References 206
Afterword 207