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8/04/09

bonefish, ladyfish, and trevally fly fishing in hawaii:

living “the boy’s” adventure tale

 

for those of you who wonder what the boy (sean, who as those in the know know is the real boss) does on those rare occasions that he’s not in the shop helping others get hawaii fly bit.  he’s usually out somewhere with the nankos crew fishing the “less popular” places and this past sunday and monday was no exception.

 

for a long time sean has wanted to catch an awa ‘aua (hawaiian ladyfish) on the fly.  he was still doing a lot of bonefishing back then and i told him that if he really wanted to catch something he had to go specifically for it and just pound.  so we did a few times with no results and more recently e.t. took him out again several times but it just didn’t happen.  in between he patiently listened to assorted nwff crew and other customers regale tales of catching the "on the fly lady" which for years had eluded him.  there was no real reason why he didn’t get one just not in the cards.  everyone has those monkeys on their back.  even i have a list that i’d like to get to before i meet the maker.  i can think of three right off the bat and those who know me probably know which three i’m talking about.  that’s all part of the whole fly adventure and it is different for everyone.  that’s why i titled this blog entry after that a-ha song (probably none of you got that... but if you did, cool).

 

so back to the story.  sean and the nankos crew went out to k bay on sunday to catch papio (trevally).  they got a few bluefin and whiteys but, more importantly sean got his awa ‘aua.  when he sent me the pics of the day the accompanying email started off like this, “Yo. The boy finally caught an awa ‘aua on his fly rod. Yay.  he got it throwing a blue crease fly(www.umpqua.com/pc-58-29-crease-fly-blados.aspx) on his seven weight sage (www.sageflyfish.com).

 

yesterday, lost brian joined the fracus and the boyz went out again this time for bones.  the fishing was kind of tough but nankos mike got a good size hawaii bonefish and, according to sean, they all had fun.

 

 

...sharky!

 

sean gets his elusive hawaiian lady.  look at that smile...i know the feeling, way to go bro.  for your achievement you get the gigantor blog pic of the day.

 

a pair of jacks...sweet.

 

the nankos crew pounded into the dark.

 

 

the next day...

 

 

nankos mike makes this hawaii fly fishing bonefish shtuff look easy.  good times.

 

clay.


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