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7/31/09

not exactly bonefishing or fly fishing hawaii:

the omilu of k bay

 

greg called and was going to fish k bay.  greg grew up on, in, and fishing the bay and always impresses me with his knowledge of the fishing there.  you can always tell just by talking to people when they really know their stuff.  there is just an air of confidence and ease in their demeanor and the things they say.  it’s hard to explain but it’s just something that cannot come from anything but decades of “paying dues” on the water.  the plan was to... well fish.  we didn’t plan how or for what.  in fact when e.t. asked what we were going to do, i just said, “we’re going to do whatever it takes.” 

 

i showed up at gregs house with my trusty switch rod and a single hand rod, as well as a light baitcasting rod... greg showed up with a bucket of live oama (juvenille goatfish).  apparently the oama have been running in the bay for a couple of weeks and was beginning to get thick, so greg caught a bunch and wanted to troll it around and check out different places around the bay.  i haven’t trolled with oama in maybe twenty years, so i was all about doing that (actually today was not a hardcore fishing day so i was pretty much all in for anything).  we trolled around the bay and caught ten or so omilu (bluefin trevally).  i’m not exactly sure how many, but we had twenty or so oama and every one of them either caught an omilu or got lost to a missed strike.  none were real big, but they were all super fun.

 

 

 

the day turned out to be quite rainy.  we got dumped on a number of times, which pretty much foistered our “fish from the boat, no need to get wet” theory.  although no fly rods were used in the making of this episode, it was a totally relaxing day and kind of a nice break from the everyday fly stuff.  we are after all fishermen first.  thanks greg for another fun day on the water.

 

greg starts things off with the first of many omilu and didi the wonder fishing dog goes wild.

 

comin’ up.

 

another bluefin trevally.

 

the release shot.

 

the omnibus skies over k bay.

 

omilu in the rain.

 

the last oama and the last omilu falls for the “triple threat”.  a great way to end the day and a great way to end the blog for this month.  good times. see ya’ in august.

 

clay.


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