Tokyo Bay Early Summer: Chase the Tide for Bass and Bream

This is Artificial Lure with your Tokyo Bay fishing report. Around Tokyo Bay today we’ve had early summer patterns settling in: warm, humid air, light south to southeast breeze, and mostly stable barometric pressure. Coastal stations around Yokohama and Chiba are showing air temps in the mid‑20s Celsius this afternoon, dipping into the high teens overnight. Skies have been mixed clouds and sun with a few passing showers inland, but visibility on the bay itself has stayed good. Tides today are classic bay-style: a solid morning high, dropping to a mid‑day low, then filling again toward evening. On this kind of day, the last two hours of the falling tide and the first push of the flood have been the most productive. The moving water has lined fish up along channel edges, breakwalls, and river mouths. Sunrise came just after 4:25 a.m., with sunset around 6:50 p.m., so we’re in that long-day window where the best bites are tight to low light. The first light window saw the strongest action, and there’s another good shot lining up from late afternoon into dusk as that evening tide starts climbing. Fish activity has been solid for early June. Tokyo Bay charter captains and local anglers are reporting good numbers of: - **Sea bass (suzuki)**: Still the main target. Lots of school-size fish with the occasional 60–70 cm class mixed in. Night harbor games picked up around lighted structures, and daytime fish are holding along rock piles and current seams. - **Black sea bream (kurodai)**: Steady along tetrapods and inner-bay structures, especially where there’s some algae growth and shell on the bottom. - **Mackerel and horse mackerel (aji)**: Small to medium schools moving in and out of piers and inner bay channels, especially when the tide is pushing clean water past the structure. - **Flounder (hirame) and flathead (ma-gochi)**: Not huge numbers, but enough to stay interesting along sandy drop-offs and river mouths when the water’s a bit stained. Lure-wise, the usual Tokyo Bay staples are doing work. For sea bass, 9–12 cm minnow plugs in natural baitfish colors, small metal vibes, and 20–30 g metal jigs are producing. Soft plastics on 10–20 g jigheads, especially paddle tails, have been deadly when you slow-roll them along the bottom in the channels. At night, switching to black or dark silhouettes around bridge lights has triggered some better fish. For bait anglers, shrimp and sandworms are hard to beat. Kurodai are eating crab baits and clams fished tight to structure, while aji and mackerel are coming on small sabiki rigs tipped with a bit of shrimp or isome. If the water gets a little murky after showers, scented soft baits and fresh-cut strips have an edge. Two hot spots to keep an eye on: - **Yokohama Bay area**: Around the piers, breakwalls, and the inner harbor structures. Sea bass have been stacking up where the current sweeps past pilings, and aji schools are sliding through in the evening. Work minnow plugs and vibes along the current edges, then downsize and go vertical when you mark bait. - **Tokyo side around the Arakawa and Edogawa river mouths**: On the dropping tide, bait gets flushed out and sea bass and flathead sit along the channels waiting. Cast soft plastics or small metals slightly up-current and let them swing down, tapping bottom as you go. Overall, it’s a good time to be on Tokyo Bay: comfortable temps, plenty of daylight, and fish that are willing if you time your tides and chase that low-light window. Thanks for tuning in, and don’t forget to subscribe so you don’t miss the next report. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai. Great deals on fishing gear https://amzn.to/44gt1Pn