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02/14/10

bonefish hawaii:

the goings ons.

 

this is a special bonus blog just for brother daryl.  last time i fished with him he scolded me for not updating my blog enough.  i told him to get me pictures and i would blog more often.  so what does that guy do?  he conks a couple of bones that day and doesn’t take any pictures.

 

the nwff crew does not have problems getting fish here, the problem is the crew (including myself) is very “photography challenged”.  for those not in the know, the nwff crew is a bunch of us guys who have been fishing here in hawaii since birth (birth happening a longer time ago for some of us than others) that just happened to pick up a fly rod somewhere along the way.  we all grew up in the more traditional hawaii style of fishing to catch fish, not so much to take pictures of fish and then let them go.  cameras were never even thought of as “fishing” gear.  after all, there's plenty of time to take picture while unloading the cooler at home in the driveway (another hawaii tradition).  daryl pulled through this time though, well, more like deano as he took the pics and here we are at this bonus blog.

 

the fishing apparently has picked up quite a bit recently.  probably due to the return of the trade winds (thank fish god).  i was only out once this past thursday.  craig, deano and i went out for an evening session at hickam.  the tide was low and getting lower.  craig managed to hook a bone and a small yellow spot (trevally) on his sage smallmouth rod and a hi style chili pepper.  deano and i pounded further out looking for the elusive ulua (trevally over ten pounds) or golden trevally.  didn’t get any but i did jump a good sized aha (needlefish) and hooked lots and lots of coral (coral).  deano got a couple of swipes from some omilu (bluefin trevally)  but no hook ups.  we did get to try some “flies in the works”, saw a couple of uluas cracking mullet and are that many casts closer to hooking the big one.

 

e.t. left me a message last night saying that his client from japan hooked four bones yesterday at ke’ehi.  he said there wasn’t that many fish around but they were able to find some good eaters.  they’re out there again today and hopefully we’ll get to see some pics (e.t. catches more fish than anyone in these parts, but is the worst of the crew when it comes to getting photes, maybe there is a correlation... hmm.).

 

last, but not least, deano and daryl went out to hickam for a little while yesterday morning.  deano’s report went as follows:

 

“Went to the beach to fly fish for a little while this morning since Daryl said that he was going out.  I had tied up couple big tube flies the night before to try my luck at hooking up a big papio.  There's been some big fish around the flats lately so I took out my Temple Fork Light Duty Bluewater Rod.  I tied two tube fly mullet imitations  One that was weighted and the other without.  I think I liked the way the weighted one swam and that fly was getting some good cracks.  I ended up landing two barracuda and had another one cut my fly off.  Daryl did really well sightfishing for bones.  He ended up hooking 4 and landing two.  In all a nice short session."

 

thanks deano and daryl for making this bonus report on the goings ons possible.  brother daryl, i’ll try to get another blog up soon but just keep in mind that futon and winter olympics make a very good combination.

 

 

 

brother daryl checks in with a couple of nice hawaii bonefish.

 

while deano got some cuda cracks on the latest fly to come out of his skunk works.

 

craigster blessed his new smallmouth rod with a little yellow spot.  small ones do count for getting the "stink" off a new rod.

 

life is good bites, good friends... good times.

 

clay.

 


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