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09/13/10

fly fishing hawaii:

the lake with jim.

 

went up to wahiawa yesterday with my long time friend jim romig.  jim and i have spent many hours on the water together over the years but, until yesterday, we haven’t been out for quite a while.  so i was happy when he called and said, "clay, let's go fishing."

 

always in good spirits, jim is one of the nicest guys i know so i was excited to get out on the water with him and into some lake action.

 

i rolled up to the ramp around eight thirty and the parking lot was empty.

 

”that’s not a good sign,” i thought.

 

i know the efficiency of the “coconut wireless” especially up at lake wilson.  for those not in the know the “coconut wireless” is the word of mouth passing of news here in hawaii (you wanna talk about high speed communications).  an empty lot on a weekend at the lake is usually not a good sign that the fishing’s going off the chart.  oh well, as i always say, you'll never know unless you go.

 

we got out on the water went to work.  we fished a few stretches with nothing.  i knew that the peacocks are starting to school and that we just had to get on them and (the hard part) they had to be on.  as happens frequently on the lake nothing, nothing, nothing, bam.  i saw jim’s 6wt. sage z-axis bend over... a nice red devil.  the first fish of the day.  good, we got the stink off.  as soon as our flies were back in the water i saw a tuc race out of nowhere and hit my fly, but i just missed it. in that same instant jim was on.  he landed that fish and i told him to get his fly back in there.  we were on the schoolies and the schoolies were on.  there were the usual half pound to one pound fish as well as some of the bigger two poundish fall schooling fish.  we fished mostly in the woods but i noticed that there were lots of fish off the bank in the deeper water.  through out the day there were also small incidents of fish busting the surface but not enough to really target.  i fished a sink tip line but jim fished a floating line and did fine with a weighted fly.  the two of us fished, joked around, caught up with what was going on with each other, and reminisced about adventures we’ve experienced together in the past.  it turned out to be an absolute great day on the lake.  the fishing was good but the company was even better and that my friends is what fly fishing is really all about.

 

 

the water levels gone down another foot or two since the last time i was out on sept. 3.  still easy to launch but that ramp's getting awful long.

 

 

after a bunch of nothing, jim got bit by this devil.

 

 

then he caught this peacock.

 

then another...

 

and another.

 

 

i caught enough to satisfy my jones.  it was good to see the fall schoolies coming along nicely.

 

 

we spent some time just sight fishing red devils.

 

then ended the day with more schooling peacocks.

 

how does that saying go?  it's better to be good than lucky or something like that.  it's all to complex to figure out now, i'm just going to hang with your daughter... good times.

 

clay. 


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