He caught a large trout.

Fish is rare, with the occasional exception of fresh trout and carp, which is served at Christmas.

Here we see a shop in Nikko preparing two favorite fall snacks, grilled dango rice dumplings, along with charcoal grilled ayu river trout.

And then a few days later, we had the opportunity to go fishing in a glacial stream near our campsite, where the fish were so abundant that you could literally reach into the stream and grab out a foot long trout with your bare hands.

It explains that there are no limits on the number of fish he can catch in the waters on and adjacent to the reserves, and that in the waters beyond this area in open season he can catch unlimited yellow perch and panfish, as well as daily 6 walleye, 6 bass, 6 northern pike, 5 trout or salmon, 1 muskellunge and 25 whitefish.