Fishing Bushcraft in Japan

The 4mm thick blade seems substantially weaker than the 5.5mm thick blade to baton a hardwood with.

[@earthmayo9540]

ここ最近、他の４つのチャンネルを拝見させていただいておりまして、ここを知った次第です。とても素敵な映像でした。ここには優しさと強さと、逞しさと楽しさが溢れていてとても和みました。ありがとうございます。

[@LP18888]

Ive watched your video for 10 years now. Thank you for everything sir

[@danny-li6io]

Your channel has provided me years of relaxation. Thank you sir, for all of the videos.

[@JamesMBC]

Mr Wako is the man! Just a master outdoorsman making incredibly educational and relaxing videos for almost 15 years. Thank you for your videos all these years!

[@woolmanoutdoors6225]

Found your channel through DBK Knives channel. They said you are their hero, you are now my hero.

[@timchaboude499]

It’s a shame that Mike Stewart from Bark River didn’t have the same attitude. I still refuse to buy a BRK to this day.

[@moosefishing2743]

Kind sir, I absolutely love your videos of fishing and sashimi by the river, you are awesome please keep posting more of your adventures. You are inspirational. Thank you for the videos.

[@GaryHorn]

It is so generous of you to record and share your fishing and bushcrafting experiences with us. It is relaxing and educational. It is such a beautiful location! Domo arigato!

[@gotsteem]

That looked like so much fun! Thank you for taking me with you on this fishing journey. I wish I was there. And, I agree with your philosophy.

[@NWAAdventures]

That looks like heaven to me. Excellent bushcraft, fishing, and lunch! I hope you have many more wonderful years of this content.

[@matthewdroz5613]

Amen doctor, loved the video. Keep up your good videos and I agree with you on vaccines. Enjoy your lunch! Please keep sharing your videos of all kinds for us to watch. From sister city abbotsford BC.

[@maxreuv]

Great video, thank you. I particularly like how you do not cut almost anything from it, somehow it is fascinating to watch. I always learn a thing or two from you every time.

[@corynahoopii338]

These videos are excellent.

[@quintond.7888]

I love seeing Japan from your perspective. Thanks for sharing, friend. Your English is very good.

[@theoneandonlyowl3764]

Thanks Doc. That was great; the fishing, knife work, cooking, food and advice. Long life, enjoyment and health to you.

[@brawldawg8729]

I can't tell you how much I enjoy the time you share with us. Stay healthy, my friend!

[@zeroa6]

Awesome Fishing Bushcraft video from you, like always. Thanks!!

[@sygos]

yes the smaller knife made a much nicer more relaxing sound and i could hear it very clearly. really enjoyable video.

[@0rang.utan.bananaman199]

This video made my morning even better.

[@DoubtX]

I think your idea on our virus response is very prudent. We always have to be careful about unintended consequences. These videos are always a treat to watch.

[@perseusmueller2536]

You are a master of preparing these small size fishes at the spot where you catched them earlier! I love your videos, may you stay healthy and happy for a long time!

[@mikhailmor60]

I love and support your views on the "vaccine". Blessings to you and family from USA 🇺🇸❤️🇯🇵

[@Popeii1]

Is he seeking revenge for WW II by encouraging the allies to spread the plague? Stronger immune system than other humans? WOW!

[@MrTraildust]

@@Popeii1 shut up 🤫

[@devonmcclanahan4458]

@@Popeii1 boy get out of here. Don’t disrespect the guy that taught all of us how to sharpen knives.

[@Popeii1]

@@devonmcclanahan4458 It's painful.

[@igit_7296]

@@Popeii1 Yes, he said that. “Superior race” kinda reasoning. Very sad, and slightly frightening.

[@1HeavyHitr]

Doc, these are my favourite videos on this channel. So much like Alberta canada.

[@brandon152lee]

LOVED, LOVED, LOVED your thoughts and opinions towards the end of the video. Subscribed. Excellent video and I really enjoyed watching.

[@billfricker4368]

First time watching. Very nice. Thank you for the English. I share your sentiments re. Vaccine. Thanks again from Pennsylvania 🇺🇸

[@canelles1]

Beautiful places you take us to, keep the videos coming! All the best from a german fellow hunter and fisherman. Always makes me smile to see you wear my colours!

[@dudeitsknate]

Thanks for offering a window to your recreational life in Japan. It has always been a dream to visit. Really not too different looking from the west coast of North America. We have “blue back” sea run cutthroat trout that look very similar and can be caught in tidal estuaries. Happy trails.

[@booishoois309]

17:00 your batoning problems are threefold 1) dense wood 2) short blade 3) your baton needs more mass - especially length. I've tried batoning with a small baton like that, and it takes you like 2x longer because you need to strike it so many more times.

[@hawkknight4564]

Excellent video as always. That must be some very hardwood. Because I have owned those saws, (240 & 130 large tooth.) by your recommendation, for several years. And in the Midwest of the USA. There is only one type of wood that is that difficult to go through with those saws. And you are absolutely correct. At least 10 feather sticks. 30 more minutes of preparation insures it’s a good fire.

[@TheLapierre]

This video was awesome! Can watch this for hours, so relaxing :) Greetings from Sweden!

[@Oemer-mp8cz]

Thanks for another Video Waco San! These are always my favorite videos from you, such beatiful nature!

[@milesrost6674]

Thank you for taking us with on this excellent adventure. Godspeed

[@tphvictims5101]

I’m pretty sure the first of your videos that I watched was almost 4 years ago. I learned a lot about cutlery. A LOT 👍🏻 DBK sent me.

[@TomofAllTrades]

Looks delicious. Thanks for sharing this beautiful video.

[@andrewh6034]

I love these fishing bushcraft videos. Great to see a new one.

[@johnny.moxhamsq3503]

Absolutely beautiful location 💕 Thank you for the high quality vid 😊👍

[@passion7171]

Stay healthy, thanks for sharing videos through the years.

[@docwilson6080]

Sir you are the best. Thank you so very much. Your skills are remarkable

[@pedroperalta5719]

A truly idyllic experience. Thank you for sharing.

[@cuttheknot4781]

I love that Dr. Wako speaks his mind without reservation. This is how we all truly know how we individually feel. Otherwise it's like going to war without distinguishing uniforms.

[@igit_7296]

Dr. Wako is kind of a humiliating thing to call him - he’s just a little misguided about the “uniqueness” of Japanese human beings and their “special” immune system . The only thing that kept the first wave of COVID down was the science based response (contact and retroactive tracing, masks and above all, vigilant social distancing, as advised by Dr. Oshitani Hitoshi & Dr. Omi Shigiru. The creator of this content lives in Japan and he knows this to be true. He shouldn’t be spread wacky propaganda. The Delta variant doesn’t care about social distancing and no one has told it that the Jaoanese are immune to it - it has a black belt at being contagious, which is why the healthcare system in Osaka prefecture is on the verge of collapse and it’s why both Tokyo and Okinawa have declared a state of emergency.

[@jiffywartbustle2348]

Great outing and agreed - I love this hobby, too! Good health!

[@gtoutdoorexcursions2938]

Such an amazing fishery that you have in Japan with beautiful trout and char! Im definitely appreciative of you giving us a tour of your streams! One day id love to cast flies to Iwame trout in Japan!! Thanks for sharing!!

[@DullAntler]

That tough wood makes a good argument for a camp ax. Very enjoyable video and very beautiful place. You are a blessed fellow to have it.

[@greekveteran2715]

There are 3 knives that In my experience can do everything. Becker BK7, TRC Mille Cuori and a properly rerpofiled Terävä Jääkäripuukko 110 (I have also sanded down it's handle a bit, and made its ergos perfect). J-P Peltonen Sissipuukko M07, is another knife that can do it all. BK7 has the advantage that it can also chop, but it's less comfortable than the others, on any other kind of use. However, it's the one of the best, if not the BEST, 7 inch jack of all trades knife on the market.

[@chrismichellijr9217]

Thank you for this video!! I always love watching these. I try to use some of this in own fishing. 😁✨

[@certaindeaf8315]

Awesome. It reminds me of fishing for brookies and frying them up in Montana.

[@dontcallmetravis]

I could fall asleep to the sounds of that stream.

[@nomad753]

I have a hard time understanding your English at times. But I understand you as a woodsman , and I appreciate that. Thank you Sir.

[@WanderingBobAK]

Thank you so much! Reminds of of a few rivers near here in Alaska ... during the summer! Nice to see a face to attach to all the knife vids.

[@Arkayden]

Always been my favorite channel.

[@Bob_Adkins]

There is no bother, that's what friends are for. What is said in the forest stays in the forest.

[@igit_7296]

Until it’s uploaded to KZbin. Then it’s no longer in the forest. The internet is a formidable force multiplier when it comes to broadcasting oddball opinions.

[@Bob_Adkins]

@@igit_7296 Not oddball at all, simply alternative. People should not sit in judgment of life choices that harm nobody.

[@igit_7296]

@@Bob_Adkins I’m not judging, lol. I’m making an observation…I’ll still watch and I enjoy his videos. The thing is, he attributes Japan’s relatively successful response to COVID to the mighty physiological makeup of Japan’s citizens. Their immune system is “stronger”. lol. Of course that is a silly conclusion for him to make. The reason the Japanese were more successful than the Americans at stanching the spread of Covid is that they are obedient. The Japanese citizens are an obedient people and they obey authority. Dr. Omi Shigeru, who headed Japan’s response to COVID, aggressively pursued a science based approach - complete with rigorous retrospective testing. When the government dictated that crowds were to avoided, the Japanese diligently went ‘all-in’ on social distancing. The Japanese have been less affected by Covid is because they are obedient citizens. It has nothing to do with some kind of super-Japanese immunity to disease. Still love this guy’s videos, even though he’s revealed himself to be a little nutty.

[@Scoopster]

Best life! And full circle back to nature, simple, quality living and using considerable acquired wisdom with grace.

[@dhosekowski1391]

Your videos are so relaxing and enjoyable to watch. I really like your watch. If you wouldn’t mind telling us the model, greatly appreciated. Thank you Virtuovoice 😊

[@pollyvocal7622]

I love you brother! You say the things I say here in America especially at the bye bye part 😉 no bothering when I hear you speak from the heart and most importantly speaking truth

[@getsmart3701]

Love your work sir, great stuff as always.

[@kurtkrill5300]

good to see you again my friend,and another tastey lunch.

[@robertphillips3833]

Take care my friend! Thank you for the great videos from Japan!!

[@limeybonesjones7395]

i really liked this video, very unique in it's own way.

[@michaelburke5481]

Your videos alway make me feel good love to you and Japan forest brother!

[@SamEEE12]

Looks like a nice day out there. Have fun :-)

[@MindIessGuy]

I hope you do continue to do this, love watching it ! Cheers to good health !!

[@Mathias_Clausen]

What flies do you use when flyfishing? Maybe you can make a video about your fishing gear?

[@Toki52]

Another great one as always! I visualize myself as you in the future.

[@samazuk57]

So happy to see you post another video! Love the content

[@MrKylw]

I’m so happy to see your videos again!! I’ve missed you🙂

[@TheSpleenification]

What an amazing channel ! Thank you for sharing this to us. :)

[@firstlast2514]

No need to apologize about your thoughts on the vacc-ines. And you definitely didn't bother me. Maybe some others got bothered. But let them be bothered, that's up to them. I agree with you. That meal looked delicious 🤤. You know what you're doing, and you have some really nice knives. That wood looked extremely hard lol. Keep enjoying your life my friend. Thanks for the vidoes

[@igit_7296]

It’s revealing, though. I find his videos relaxing. I’m a city guy, and i assume his bits of wisdom and observations are both accurate and the product of a sound mind. It’s deflating to realize that some unfortunate CT tendencies exist within his easy going demeanor. It’s as if, at the end of one of his videos, he casually mentions that he believes George Soros is taking over the world.

[@guaporeturns9472]

@@igit_7296 what are “CT tendancies" ?

[@igit_7296]

@@guaporeturns9472 A conspiracy theorist. Someone who harbors delusions about knowing “the truth”, usually fortified by extensive research at Google/KZbin University.

[@guaporeturns9472]

@@igit_7296 oh , got it , thanks Many CT folks here in the US. I’m not one of them.

[@El_Scorcho_]

@@igit_7296 They bunch up truths with conspiracies and people like you will think its crazy. Its a very smart strategy.

[@OSAbsolam]

I love trout fishing myself. Great video. Love the stream and outdoors that you are in. What part of Japan is this.

[@Staarker99]

This is a Japanese man truly living Life, he truly understands his existence in real time. My only wish is that he could experience fishing here where I am. He would not believe it. He is a friend in the truest sense.

[@igit_7296]

He does seem to have a wonderful life. Except for one thing… …he seems to take a peculiar joy in landing those tiny baitfish. I don’t get it. I wonder if it’s a long drive for him to get to Hokkaido?

[@guaporeturns9472]

And I think you don’t understand the meaning of the word "friend"

[@igit_7296]

@@guaporeturns9472 He seems like an avid fisherman, a fly fisherman, to be exact. It just seems like he catches some very teeny tiny fish. He has fun doing it, and that’s great, but I sometimes wish I could place him in a more robust scenario.

[@guaporeturns9472]

@@igit_7296 well , he lives in Sapporo , Hokkaido so no driving to get to Hokkaido. I also enjoy catching small trout from small water in the remote streams and eating them on the spot. Beautiful place , beautiful fish , delicious food. If you don’t get it I’m afraid no explanation is going to make you "get it". I totally get it... and I do it all the time.

[@igit_7296]

@@guaporeturns9472 I get it, that’s why I enjoy the videos. It would just seem that there is more to life than enjoying catching tiny bait fish. I’m just making an observation, don’t get so defensive.

[@JoeyB7615]

I agree with you that stream side bushcraft lunch is heaven

[@PamanTempura]

Saya sangat senang dengan channel anda pak, salam hangat dari Indonesia. 💙🤠👌

[@V8qp4R]

Many greetings from Germany. Very good attitude towards vaccination.👍

[@leonardoflores4362]

Watching your fishing day its like being whit you; great day!! Thank you from argentina!!👍❤

[@kennyho1001]

Fully agree with your comment on vaccines and auto immunity to future diseases. It is all about money making for the Big Pharma companies. Thank you for your honest opinion. No apologies required.

[@igit_7296]

I’m a little disappointed. I know that he’s a big fan of Trump - something I just kind of ignore…but I don’t like knowing he’s an anti-vaxxer. I don’t want to know that he might believe in Q’anon… Bummer.

[@timothyadams4477]

@@igit_7296 Maybe consider other perspectives instead of being close minded.

[@igit_7296]

@@timothyadams4477 I am very open minded. I’m just not so open minded that I’m willing to accept arguments that fall along the line of - “Because we are a physiologically superior race of people, we’re less likely to be infected with Covid”. Again, I don’t want to be too critical of the creator if this content; he looks like a senior citizen and might be prone to “strange-old-guy-logic”, and I like his videos. But what he’s saying is just kind of dumb. Japan successfully resisted the 1st wave Covid, despite low vaccination rates, because they listen to authority, respect expertise and are obedient. The government enforced social distancing, quarantines, contact tracing & mask wearing, and the public diligently followed the government’s lead.

[@OGMoose-rm7vz]

@@igit_7296 I disagree they used treatments in Japan that were outlawed here and openly shared scientific information about the virus without censorship. Masks do nothing look at the newest infection rates of Hawaii and Florida opposite mask mandate regulations same infection rate. Also virtuovoice is a doctor in Japan.

[@igit_7296]

@@OGMoose-rm7vz you can check what measures the Japanese and its Government took to combat Covid. A lot of literature on the topic is available. Very boring and non-controversial; social distancing and masks and of course the washing of the hands. You probably have some secret information, and that’s fine, but it was these boring ‘ol measures that 99% of the population used… …and it worked. The reason masks don’t work against Delta is because Dekta is x50 more contagious than the previous variant - and that’s why Delta is running rampant in Osaka. This “Doctor” sounds a bit like an out-of-touch old guy who has bizarre theories on the superhuman qualities of the Japanese - and has voiced them on the interwebs. The Doctor you might look up is Dr Shigeru Omi - the guy who helped Japan’s initial response to Covid last year - knifeguy not so much. Virtuovoice believes in Q’anon, in case you weren’t aware.

[@---Ben---]

Everyone should know these skills!

[@BushcraftknivestothetestBKT]

You should try the new silky outback!! Also good for bone and horns

[@profesorEDC]

As always, fantastic videos Doc. I really enjoy and appreciate them. Arigato gosaimas.🙏😊

[@Humulus_Lupulus]

Beautiful video! Thank you. And some very interesting last few minutes... I am a cell biologist from central Europe and I pretty much share your opinion. All the best and take care!

[@Thatssoemo]

These videos are the best. Glad your back.

[@REDARO11]

I like what you said !!! I agree with you!!!

[@wasatchdan]

Wonderful video...Thank you once again for posting your fishing trip.

[@bauer431]

Beautiful land and a great life.

[@70xlt]

I absolutely love your videos.. And that's coming from the Southeast of America. Great job and keep on. Thank you

[@Untold758]

I love these videos , could you do one all the equipment you currently use

[@SeeTheWholeTruth]

When mastery meets nature. The best of both lives.

[@whiskeyriver4322]

That is a good way to enjoy a fine day. Best Wishes from South Carolina!!! :D

[@woodnugget1301]

Your a wonderful person. I enjoy your videos very much. Ian uk

[@timclements-dh9sq]

Love your channel

[@zulhamefendi8337]

I am from indonesia, shibarashi, i like it your adventure

[@joaopedropineli4547]

viruovice, what a pity that here in brazil where i live there's no knive of bark river, maybe one day i'll get one of them, i'm a big fan of yours

[@kaze7738]

We haven't hear from you, Dr.virtuovice for a while. I bet we all miss you so much. Please remember if you didn't indicate us to the right way to do, (of corse I am talking about hunting) we became lamb. I could't say think enough what you have done (still doing I would believe). I could't wait to hear from you and watch how you are. Until then, Ciao. You are the best of best.

[@dombond6515]

Thank you doctor!

[@ykikuchi1770]

Even after eating, it looks delicious enough to make you want to eat again

[@shannonandsheila1403]

Good one Wako good hearing from you 👍 be easy

[@farstrider79]

I might disagree with your vaccine opinion, but I'd still love to go fishing with you!

[@choiceadventure1838]

I would like to join your heaven trip when COVID is over.

[@neohubris]

Thanks Dr, beautiful as always!

[@fossilimprint2954]

Many thank to you for sharing such a good experience fishing.

[@nohandlesavailable677]

That water is insanely clear.

[@anameofsomesort959]

This was such a treat! I wish I could like twice!

[@GertTown]

You should come to Louisiana where you can catch 25 trout per person per day. They are much bigger too!