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12/08/13
bonefishing hawaii:
bones away.
it
must be getting close to christmas. i’ve
been seeing a lot of santas and lights and stuff around. also as i am writing this the eagles and the
lions are playing a game in some serious snow in philadelphia.
if not for subtle hints like those, you wouldn’t know it is december around
here. this past week we’ve had some
really “lucky you live hawaii”
weather. over all the temperatures have
cooled down a bit but with light winds and a blazing (albeit winter) sun it still
feels warm out there. the fishing...
forget about it. it’s borderline
ridiculous at most places around the island.
just as good if not even a hare better than it was this past
summer.
got out twice this week. i have
been doing a lot of sight fishing lately so i was really jonesing for an honest
to goodness full on two handed air raid.
so i took a few hours on wednesday to do just that. i took out my sage 6126-4 one and abel switch. i recently got a hold of the new rio scandi
390gr head and was jacked to give that thing a try. rio has come out with what they call connect
core technology that is suppose to reduce stretch in their fly lines improving sensitivity. as they put it, "soft, subtle takes become positive grabs, and without stretch to dull reaction times, hook sets are instant and sure." i don’t know much about that, but i did notice
that stripping that new head through the water did feel different. like it was easier to strip which i guess
makes sense if the line doesn’t stretch.
it did cast really nicely and turned over an eighteen foot mono leader
and bombing fly with ease on all but the most “pilot error” of casts.
the bite must have really been on that day because i
hooked a ton of fish in a few hours, actually more than i really care to. most were cookie cutter rats but a few
biggies in the mix as well. being out on
the water is always awesome to me.
that’s most of the reason why i fish.
catching fish, that was okay. the
best part of this day for me was that there was absolutely no one else
around. it is still possible to be alone
on the water here on oahu though that is getting rare and usually occurs when
the fishing is really poor. that doesn’t bother
me as i am more of a roll with the punches kind of guy (i also kind of like taking on the gods when the fishing is really bad). the less and less it happens, though, the
more i appreciate and enjoy those special days where it is just me,
my tunes, and water.
friday it was back to sight fishing with doug. it was another beautiful sunny day with very
little clouds until the late afternoon.
sage 691-4 method was, not surprisingly, once again called to duty. not having replaced my scientific angler
saltwater textured line since its destruction last week, i lined my abel classic
reel with the cortland
classic 444 classic.
once again, there were lots
of bones around and i hooked a bunch of them with that light set up while doug
slaughterhoused. a couple of fish that i
hooked were shall we say a bit out of the realm of the six weight. one of
these pigs actually knocked the clicker off of my reel sending it into
complete free spool. i fought that guy
for as long as i could with the reel in total freespool. it finally got the best of me and parted my
leader on a reefy point that i was trying to keep it away from. the funny thing was that my fly line survived
the big fish that i hooked. instead it
was a small rat that ended up trying to make “radish roses” with my fly line.
i
may have just happened to run into the two good days this week but i doubt
that. i’m not even close to that
lucky. i think there is just a lot of
bones roaming around out there right now.
they probably didn’t get the memo that it is winter. i won’t tell them if you won’t... i’ll see
you on the water. bones away!
so the week kind of went like this...
bent...
bent...
bent...
bent...
bent...
bent...
and...
bone...
bone...
bone...
bone...
bone...
fatty bone...
micro bone...
pig...
sunset bone...
fly line wrecking bone...
all
these bones around and blogging about it probably won’t help in the solitude on
the water department but it should definitely add to the holiday good times for all.
clay.