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09/03/11

bonefishing hawaii:

life goes on.

 

bones are still out there doing what bones do and the boyz are out there doing what the boyz do.  same sh_t different day.  sean checked in with some pics from kbay.  i took the new moon big tide week off.  then yesterday i went on a little bombing raid at keehi both to see what all was out there and to scratch that relentless itch to go out and conk some fly line.

 

i fished my sage tcx 8119-4 switch.  i like having the boosting power of an eight weight two hander on my side when bombing  gnarly reef edges and the sage tcx switch eight does the job like no other (aside from maybe the sage tcx 7126-4 deathstar).  can you tell i like tcx rods?  i lined it up with the new airflo skagit switch lines.  i tried the 510 grain and found that a little heavy for my taste although it did cast well.  i switched to the 480 grain and finished.... it absolutely rocked.<  the south swell had subsided a bit from its previous epic gigantor heights but it was still cracking.  this made it pretty sketch out there but fishable, just the way i like it.  the area i was fishing was about five to ten feet deep, the wind was blowing fifteen to twenty, the surge was strong and the current was ripping.  keeping the fly in the zone (while keeping an eye on the waves) was as technical as it gets.  at one point i had to switch to ten feet of t-8 (which is rare out here) and play fly roulette with the coral to get bit.  i hooked a bunch of fish but lost a good number of them as i was fishing flies i tied with a “serious” weed guard.  remember, weed guards are also fish guards... the guard doesn’t know the difference between weeds, coral, or a fishes mouth.  it’s job is to “guard” the hook point and, depending on how it is constructed, it does it’s job well.  sometimes too well.  you can tie a fly that will never get stuck but it will also never hook fish.  back in my bone fever days i wouldn’t be caught dead with a weed guard on any of my flies.  almost two decades (that’s a scary thought) and couple of thousand bones later, i lean much more toward not getting stuck than trying to hook and land everything that bites.

 

anyway e.t. and doug caught some bones sight fishing as usual (i don’t know their stories.  you have to ask them).  the bones i was after were where i thought they’d be.  i got the fly down to them, hooked quite a few of them (as well as some coral) and lost most them to the weedguard.  i also “weedguarded” a good size papio (trevally).  that i was a little bummed about but what can i say except sometimes like that... i’ll see you on the water.

 

bruddasean checked in with his kbay bone.

 

the boyz did a little sight fishing for bonefish and a little cuda fishin'.  nankos mike with a kbay cuda.

 

nankos mike also got a whitey (trevally)... sweet.

 

and sean got his beeeg cuda.  very ambitious.

 

just a shtanky tuna head for those out there who, like me, like that kind of stuff.

 

the sage tcx 8119-4... 

 

480 grain airflo skagit switch...

 

yoying up bones from the gnarliest of reefs.

 

until the next time, enjoy the pound and, as always, good times.

 

clay.


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