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09/23/10

bonefishing hawaii:

more bones with the boyz.

 

made the perilous traffic filled trek to hi kai yesterday to meet up with e.t. and doug lum.  the original plan was to go see what was up at ke’ehi but after waking up to a completely clouded over and rainy sky, we decided to put the ke’ehi check out trip on hold and just fish hi kai.  not knowing what was in store with the weather, i put away the single hand rod and took out a beulah 10’ 6” 6/7 switch rod.  i haven’t used this rod in a while, but i do like it for those “what do i want to do” days where i’m on the fence about whether i want to sight fish or blind cast.  this particular switch rod matched with the beulah elixir 335 grain integrated line is probably one of the most versitile set ups for the stuff we do around here, although i have yet to try one of meiser's 909 switches.  the beulah 6/7 switch is light and delicate enough to make any sight fishing shot encountered around here and is capable chucking  a bonefish fly a hundred feet with ease either single hand, single hand spey, double hand spey (well switch to be exact, we don’t change direction all that much out here), or double hand overhead.  it does seem to perform a bit better on the single hand side.  that’s probably because i’m a much better single hand caster than double hand, though i’m trying very hard to even that up.

 

anyway as it turned out the sun never really got going until the tide got high and the water became off colored so in short i was pretty happy that i left the single hand rod at home.  despite the morning rain we did manage to get into enough bones to satisfy the jones... at least until the next time. 

 

 

switched up this guy with an orange bombing pepper.

 

 

a mouth full of tan charlie!

 

this little guy had the munchies for the meanstreak fly.

 

doug says, "streak's still on... streak's still on!".

 

summer may be over, but summer fishing continues (i should say this summer fishing)... good times.

 

clay.


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