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05/05/13

fly fishing and not so fly fishing hawaii:

may flowers. (continued)

 

 

... the beast!

 

 

the water level in the lake continues to rise.  since the last time i was there (about a week and a half ago) the lake rose another five feet or so.  despite the rising water level, there were still quite a few devils around.

 

by friday, i was pretty beat down.  so i just took it easy and didn’t pound too hard.  blurry, beat down old guy, bamboo, and moldy devil.

 

in keeping with the sage one theme i brought along a 5wt. sage one rod.  the sage 590-4 one and black devil.

 

the spawning peacocks that folks were getting on in recent weeks are now buried under five or more feet of water.  we found this beast sitting under some branches about five or six feet deep.  dean had never seen tucs spawning before so i had him work on this guy.  tricky at best as the fish was so deep we could barely see it and what it was doing. dean worked it for quite a while.  just before i was about to call it and move on, it bit and dean’s sage bass rod doubled over. he (somehow) wrestled it out of the gnarly woods.  a six pound toad.

 

we tried to get on more peacocks but the rising water seemed to have put off the schooling eaters.  dean caught one more spawning fish that we did not see until it rushed his fly from the deep.  a number of other follows and chases were all we could eek out.  the devils were still plentiful but also a little less aggressive.  once again we ended the day on a double so no complaints from me or dean.

 

four days, four dudes, fifty two fish, eleven species, countless... good times.

 

clay.


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