The Shimoda Salmon Festival, Part Two: The Fast Salmon Catch

When we last left off in Shimoda, a few santa impersonators and professional fratboys had just accomplished the extremely difficult task of picking up a fish by it's tail. But no friends, the fun doesn't stop there. There were still many hours and salmon left to kill. Which brings us to the next event: the "fast salmon catch". What this entailed was a race to see who could catch a salmon and then run back across a line with the aforementioned animal first.
And they're off! Notice the guy in the back-left of the frame-he's not stretching-rather, he seemed to have fallen over with excitement.
Here, you'll notice that the fellow with the black and red boots is off to an early lead...
...and he's the first to catch a fish!
Run Forres...er, Takahashi!
And it's yet another triumph of man over nature, folks!

Perhaps even funnier was the children's fast salmon catch, as most of the kids participating were roughly the same size as the fish they attempted to grapple with. Many of them picked up a writhing fish only to be dragged back into the water with it. The eventual victors had to resort to dragging the fish out of the water as if it were a sack of potatoes.