A sea where 4kg is within reach — and back home the same day. What we bring there: Daybreak size 4.0 (39g)
Takeshima, Kagoshima. 5.4kg from the shore, 5.6kg from a kayak. Every squid print on display at the KEYSTONE Direct Shop came from the water off this island. Why does this sea give up such big squid? This is the night before a trip we have made three years running. The egi in use on the day this sea gave three fish over 4kg was the Daybreak size 4.0 — a 39g fast fall and an extra-thick KS No.10 hook. The next morning's tip-run follows in part two.
DAYBREAK® 4.0 ｜ 39g × KS10
Daybreak size 4.0 (39g)
Sink it fast. Land it for sure. A 39g fast fall × an extra-thick KS No.10 hook.
| Size 3.3 | Size 4.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Weight | 35g | 39g |
| Crown hook | KS06 | Extra-thick KS No.10 |
| Body | EgiSharp 3.5 body | Dedicated design, 2.5mm carbon shaft |
| Intended for | Tip-run in general | Deep water, fast current, red monsters |
| Head sinker | Fits | Fits |
3.3 = 35g · KS06 ／ 4.0 = 39g · extra-thick KS No.10 — weight and hook strength choose the size of your opponent
See Daybreak size 4.0 Buy at the online shop
On sale at tackle shops across Japan. 19 colours (five of them new for September 2026). The night before a trip, made three years running, to the sea where the 4.0's record was set.
Daybreak 4.0, and Takeshima
The Daybreak size 4.0 (39g) is built to sink fast to the monsters of deep water and land them for sure: a 39g fast fall and an extra-thick KS No.10 hook. The sea where its record was set is Takeshima, Kagoshima. This is the night before the trip there — the third year running. The forecast had the wind rising from midday on departure day, so the party crossed the evening before. Eight from KEYSTONE, among them evangelist Kubo, with the 3kg class as the target. Takeshima is about three hours by boat from Kagoshima, with a population of roughly fifty, and over the past few years it has become steadily better known among eging and tip-run anglers. The squid prints on permanent display at the KEYSTONE Direct Shop — the “Bamboo Monster”: 5.4kg from the shore, 5.6kg from a kayak, 4.4kg, 4.7kg — all came from the water off this island. From anywhere in Kyushu (Saga, Nagasaki, Fukuoka, Kumamoto, Oita) it is 3.5 to 4 hours by expressway to Ibusuki, then the boat. Within a day trip, there is a sea where 4kg and 5kg are real. The shore eging thrown in on the night before brought 2kg- and 3kg-class squid one after another. What we bring to that sea is the Daybreak size 4.0.
Field Data
- Country
- Japan
- Region
- Kagoshima
- Location
- Takeshima
- Target
- Bigfin reef squid
- Method
- Tip-run
- Angler
- Kubo
Takeshima, and why 39g
The boat working this water is BG Fishing Boat. Its skipper, Captain Ozono, moved to Takeshima and spent years opening up the marks — from the shore, by kayak and by boat — and working out how the fishing shifts with the moon. Few people know the water and the shoreline around the island as well. He was once a KEYSTONE field tester himself. The squid prints at the Direct Shop rest on that accumulated knowledge.
The record on the Daybreak size 4.0 product page — April 22, 2024, Takeshima, Kagoshima: 4.7kg, 4.4kg (53cm mantle), 4.3kg — comes from the same water as those squid prints. Three fish hooked cleanly on the oversized KS No.10 hook without it bending, written up by LureNews R as “three over 4kg in one day”. A 4kg or 5kg squid is not something most anglers meet many times in a lifetime. It sits within a day trip, and there is an egi with a record set right there — this trip is headed for that sea.
Why 39g? Ten metres, twenty, thirty. When the current rips and a strong wind stands the waves up, an egi gets carried by the tide, loses its posture and misses the chance. Hence the 39g fast fall: get to the bottom at once and present to the monster in the ideal posture. Even in 30 metres it reaches the bottom in a matter of tens of seconds. For depth and current beyond that, it takes the head sinkers (mask sinkers) sold by various makers. The head shape holds the band firmly, so it does not shift on touchdown or on the jerk.
The next morning's tip-run follows in part two. As forecast, the wind rose from midday and the boat was hard to fish from as it drifted, but good squid came on the 4.0 in Galaxy Glow Purple and Ruru Purple. The season here runs from the end of May to around the end of June.
The Lure's Role
Daybreak size 4.0 (39g)
39g, an extra-thick KS No.10 hook. On sale at tackle shops across Japan and at the online shop. Purpose-built for tip-run: the body is moulded in rigid urethane foam with density and hydrodynamics optimised, and an ultra-light 2.5mm carbon shaft keeps it strong yet light — its posture in the water holds even on a fast fall. The tough stainless extra-thick KS No.10 hook has the strength not to bend even on a red monster over 4kg. Five functions were demanded in development: ① an oversized No.10 hook, ② an ultra-fast free fall, ③ the best tension-fall balance, ④ a beautiful form, ⑤ ease of mass production. Of all the size 4.0 egi made over 25 years, this was the first in a long while where the first check of the finished body gave a sense of chemistry.A 39g fast fall, and an extra-thick KS No.10 hook that does not bend. Sink it fast, land it for sure. That is the Daybreak size 4.0.
The record on the product page is from this island. April 22, 2024, Takeshima, Kagoshima: 4.7kg, 4.4kg (53cm mantle), 4.3kg. The oversized No.10 hook did not bend, and all three were landed. On the tip-run the morning after this trip (part two), good squid also came on the 4.0 in Galaxy Glow Purple and Ruru Purple. If you are going to a sea where 4kg and 5kg are real, bring 39g and a No.10 hook. So that “it grabbed the egi, and then the hook opened up” is something you never experience in this sea.
From the Workshop in Arita
The egi used in this video are genuine made-in-Japan products, crafted at KEYSTONE's own factory in Arita, Saga Prefecture — the town of Arita porcelain. We put our soul into each and every egi.
Splitting density and buoyancy across the rigid urethane foam moulding, and changing the crown hook for each size, happen in that same factory.
MADE TODAY IN ARITA
Everything above is what this video records: the night before the Takeshima trip, nine minutes and forty-eight seconds. With the wind forecast to rise from midday, the party crosses the evening before. What Takeshima is like, where the Direct Shop's squid prints were caught, and in the second half the shore eging thrown in that night — 2kg- and 3kg-class squid. The next morning's tip-run follows in part two.
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