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08/27/12

bonefishng hawaii:

the waning summer.

 

there is less than a month (25 days to be exact) of summer 2012 left.  the days are getting noticeably shorter and i’ve all but hit my annual wall when i just lose the drive to fish for bones.  at least for now.  it’s been a good year.  i’ve spanked a ton of bonefish and there are still lots of bones around (and there should be through the fall). but lately my thoughts have been a bit more shall we say anadromous.  it is something that is always on my mind to some degree throughout the year but usually starts to intesify during the height of the hawaiian summer bonefishing season.  it is the primal urge to leave the salt and travel thousands of miles back into the rivers of the northwest to seek the trout that do the same.

 

i did fish a couple of times since the last blog but to be honest i didn’t really have anything to say about it.  typical summer stuff around here there were fish, we caught some, and that’s about it.  the last time out i hooked a pa’opa’o (golden trevally) that broke my brand new wulff ambush line in half on the reef (an absolute awesome line for switch rods by the way).  around here getting a line wrecked happens occasionally.  no fly line is safe not even a brand new one.  sometimes like that... that’s just the game.  other than that it was just typical summer days with good numbers of fish, as most of you who have been out there already know.

 

for those who have been pounding it, enjoy, catch (but don’t kill) them all.  for those who haven’t been going there is still a lot of time to get while the gettin's good, but the clock is ticking.  normally this is the part where i would say, “i’ll see you on the water”, but right now... i gotta go find me a river to swing.

 

more bones of summer...

 

 

and a goat of summer as well...

 

 

 

 

 

the bone bite is still going strong around the island and will be for a while.  my bonefishing drive, however, has been waning with the summer.  i think it's time to make the long journey in search of riffles, runs, tailouts, and, as always, good times.

 

clay.


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