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12/23/09

fly fishing hawaii and beyond:

tuna, salmon, trout, and bones.

 

nwff crew jay called me last night to let me know he was fishing today.  i called him back this morning and asked, “what time you going go?”

 

“i leaving my house now.”

 

with that i told him that i was coming, hung up the phone and scrambled to get my shtuff together.  i grabbed the closest rod and reel, which happened to be a loomis 8wt. roaring river switch and a pate bonefish, and headed out the door.  i  knew full well that i probably forgot something of great importance.  upon reaching the water i realized what i had forgotten, my simms sun clava.  because of my somewhat misguided immune system that i now live with, i cannot just rambo in the sun e.t. style like i used to growing up in hawaii.  so the sun clava has become like underwear to me (even more so than underwear is).  fortunately for our super hero, i was wearing the simms solarflex hoody with built in sun clava.  although not as comfortable, the hoody worked fine for shielding the sun.  the alternative for me would have been to apply sunscreen on every other cast... not fun.

 

the day out in ke’ehi was clear and the winds were light from the south east.  i probably should have brought a single hand rod and sight fished but i had what i had.  as i waded out to a “bombable” spot i ran into a happy family of little squids.  i played with the little guys a bit and took some pictures.

 

jay walked the flat while i blind cast the edge.  jay caught a couple of good bones though he said he didn’t see that many.  i also caught a couple of rats on the orange bombing pepper.  par for the course these days.  being in the ocean felt great and seeing the squidies was cool too... just another day in the life.

 

a couple of other nwff crew dudes checked in.  greg “pops” honbo took a day off from the switch rod pounding he has been doing recently and got a fifty pound shibi (yellowfin tuna) just in time for christmas... thanks for the sash greg.  he hooked it on a spinner jigging the buoy outside of kaneohe.  i heard the fish took over an hour to land and he got spooled twice during the fight.  i wish i was there to witness that battle of epic proportions.

 

brother jose also checked in from alaska.  he said the weather “warmed up” to thirty degrees and he got on the water for potentially the last fishing of the season.  if that’s not a case for lucky we live hawaii, i don’t know what is.

 

pops, the mister, the shibi, and the resulting “sash”.

 

 

salmon and trout ak style.

 

 

squidies chillin’ on the flat.

 

 

what can i say... always good times.

 

clay.


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