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02/09/10

not exactly fly fishing hawaii:

the nwff crew takes a break.

 

e.t., greg “pops”, rookie of the year 2009 eugene, and i went out for an afternoon of fooling around on e.t.s boat.  nothing serious, just fish for the sake of fishing.  so i dawned my "master baiter" cap and met the guys at e.t.’s.

 

we put the boat in the water around one thirty.  the water was perfect, not calm but not white capping either.  e.t. and pops dragged shells for tako (octopus).  for those peeps out there not in the know, dragging shell involves a hand line with a heavy lead weight on which is attached some wire hooks and a cowry shell.  the rig is dragged behind a drifting boat.  the tako (octopus) jumps on the shell and is brought up with the hooks.  although not the most popular way people here catch these creatures, it is a pretty fun way to catch them.

 

close up of the tako "shell" lure.

 

while e.t. and greg were doing their thang.  eug and i dropped some lines.  i used my st. croix tidemaster with a shimano calcutta and eug used his spinner.  between us we caught the usual things that are caught bottom fishing like this.  eug got the grand slam of “rubbish” fish.  the nuu nuu (cornet trumpet fish) and the ulae (lizard fish) both found their way onto eug’s line.  the “but but” as i call them (rose tail trigger fish) also, as usual, made it’s presence known.  eug. also caught a lae (leather back or queen fish), a bunch of moanos (manybar goatfish), and lost about a thirty pound kahala (amberjack).  i managed a couple of nabetas (peacock wrasse) and a weke ula (yellowfin goatfish).  we were dropping ika (strips of squid) as well as some "throw away" flies.

 

when evening rolled around we trolled the ledge with a couple of lines. we chased some birds around but it wasn’t happening so we headed in to give eug. a chance to hook a bunch of bones on his spinner.  as soon as eug cast his line he was on.  i caught one with my st. croix tide master and calcutta set up(just for blogging sake), and then e.t., greg, and i just kicked back and watched eug. have the time of his life.  he was like a little kid and ended up pounding about ten of these sharp jaw species of bonefish.  it was getting late and cold so we had to cut eug.’s line or i think he would still be out there.

 

eug came out and quickly got into a moano.

 

lae,  watch those spines eug.

 

e.t. drags the shell and gets the tako.

 

look at the suckers on this guy.

 

moano close up and personal.

 

eug hooks a mong (mongoose fish).

 

nabeta... watch those teeth, they'll bite.

 

twofer.  weke ula and nabeta.  the nabeta bit a streamer i tied for peacock bass on the lake.

 

after a bit of trolling we took eug in for some bonefish and he took to it right away.

 

bones were flying into the boat.

 

i had to get one to make sure i was still worthy of the "master baiter" hat.

 

more bones coming up.

 

eug. sports an ika goatee in this shot.

 

all in all a super fun afternoon out on the water.  we got enough tako and a few bonus bites as well.  i can hardly wait for the upcoming tako poki from “pops”.  for a change of pace, today we left the fly rods at home and went “back to our roots” as e.t. put it.  the nwff crew... just a bunch fishermen looking for a bite and, as always, good times.

 

clay. 


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