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08/22/09

hawaii bonefish and beyond:

nwff crew and the things they do

 

wow the weeks go by so fast these days so here’s some of the assorted goings ons with the nwff crew.

 

on monday nankos mike took advantage of the hot, muggy, kona wind day to get out on k bay with his five weight st. croix legend ultra.  he managed a couple of nice rats... super good fun on a five wt.

 

sean got beat down by flu like symptoms... scarily common these days for some reason.  he appears to be back to good just in time for our weekend adventures.

 

surfa boy craig checked in with a photo, he’s been doing his thang in so cal for the past week or so.

 

deano got out a couple of times and did his part to build our little fly community in hawaii by showing ken and... well ken...ken and ken the two handed way around hickam (no report yet).

 

e.t. has been fishing the past several days with friends of the shop wataru and his son from japan and getting them hooked up on some hawaii bonefish action.  at last report, they got the hawaii grand slam of sorts.  bonefish, barred jack, fugu (puffer), and barracuda.

 

also (for those of you who remember him) kevin checked in.  for those of you who don’t know the k, kevin was one of the original pioneers of bonefishing in hawaii.  i met kevin soon after opening the shop and together we spent countless days on the water all over the hawaiian islands scouting and trying to bring fly fishing to hawaii.  tough work when there's no one else doing it and many telling you that you can't.  without kevin's passion and expertise, fly fishing in hawaii may have faded into obscurity as it has several times in the past.  almost everyone that fishes for bonefish in hawaii today can be traced back to kevin and his work on the water, in one way or another.  kevin doesn’t fish as much since moving to new orleans.  always a cutting edge artist, kev has set up a little biz of his own up there.  check it out at www.greenheronwoodworks.com.  some cool stuff.

 

as for me, i’ve been getting ready for my trip to no cal and oregon next week and horsing around (mostly the latter).  spent monday and tuesday in the shop.  went to the north shore with a friend for some romy’s shrimp (they were out or prawns) on wednesday.  spent thursday morning working out some of the kinks in nwff customer mitchell’s cast. you’re on your way to being awesome bro!  we then fished the fast rising tide, we both hooked fish and lost them both.  i lost mine because of a lazy knot.  i was out to test some new flies and had gone through a dozen or so different flies.  using each for about five to ten minutes just to see how they fished.  so toward the end i wasn’t really tying “guide quality” knots.  i knew i was going to change the fly soon.  i was up against the tide and wanted to wet as many “new” creations as i could.  i was a little bummed about mitchell losing his fish, though... i don’t know why that happened, but he’s a pretty mellow guy and took it in stride.

 

nankos mike and the five take advantage of the kona winds.

 

craig sends this pic of a lake irvine blueg.  what’s going on up there bro!

 

an invasive species has been found on the north shore of oahu that threatens to wipe out all the shrimp in kahuku.  it can be identified by its one fork like claw and one chopstick like claw... if you see this invasive species kill it immediately.  it’s been known to spread by clinging to the shotgun seat of north bound vehicles so anyone headed that way is advised to carefully check the passenger seats of their cars before leaving the downtown area.  thanks mini.  good times.

 

clay.

 


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