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07/07/10

fly fishing hawaii and beyond:

summer fun from all around...the check ins.

 

first of all i just realized that i was jumping ahead in time a bit with the date on that last blog. so we’re all square now and today is hopefully the seventh of july.  lots of pics from friends checking in.  brother jose of the nwff crew checked in from the ak.   he’s been catching some nice fish while still having time to come up with kiddy number three, a daughter born on july first.  congrats go out to jose and amanda.

 

over in cali, my buddies down at the trinity fly shop just wrapped up another shad camp session.   herb reported that all went well despite a somewhat strange summer (sound familiar?).  check out the pics below... shad camp trinity fly shop style... definitely good times.

 

back on the home front, my good friend from oregon harold and his sons casey boy and benny are in town and busy pounding with the nwff crew.  deano and e.t. went out with them to hickam on friday.  deano said it was a good day and they all got fish.

 

our bud and simms rep john sherman was also in town recently and had a pretty epic trip to hawaii.  he fished a couple of days on molokai with capt. clay ching and, in addition to some bones, got a white ulua (giant trevally) on his bonefish setup.  way to go mang!  that’s like the holy grail of fly fishing in hawaii.  so far, to my knowledge, there have only been a few g.t.’s that have been hooked and landed on a fly here and john’s may just be the biggest yet.  after that, he and sean spent this past friday out on kbay and john annihilated that place too.  according to sean, there were more bones out there that day than there has been in a long time.  john ended up getting three out of five, and went one for two with fish in the ten pound region.  in addition to being a great guy and a flat out ridiculous fly fisherman, john's apparently got the mega fish juj as well (one of the deadliest combinations known to mankind).

 

yesterday i went out to hi kai with harold, casey boy, and benny.  i horsed around with my sage 7126 tcx.  the “death star” as it is nick named is sage’s latest contribution to the world of two handed fly fishing and an absolute cannon.  like all the rods in the tcx series (the 8wt. is my favorite single hand bonefish rod) the rod is amazingly light and super "fast with feel" just like i like it.  i rigged it up with a 480gr. airflo compact scandi (the 510 also works great) and just let the big dog eat... and eat it did.  the death star went to work and, as advertised, pulled about a half dozen rats from the other side of the galaxy.  e.t., harold, casey boy, and benny all got “boned” as well.  as usual another great day with great friends on the water was booked.  the summer seems to be kicking into high gear boys and girls.  the tides for the next few days are big and fast so get your licks in while you can.

 

jose checked in with some fly fishing ak style and a slightly larger family.

 

 

the trinity fly shop shad camp 2010.  these guys definitely know what it is all about.

 

 

hickam friday morning.

 

benny "the wombat"... don't let this little kid fool you, he and his brother casey can cast a flyrod better than most guys i see out here.

 

deano doing his two handed thang.

 

 

john's impressive molokai g.t.

 

and some nice bones at kbay to boot.

 

the "death star", hawaii bonefish, and, as always, good times.

 

clay.

 


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