Not Skunked Saturday on the Flats with Big M

I took Marlon to fish the low tide at Hickam Flats today. I've been rethinking my equipment distribution and put the Stradic FJ 3000 back on the TFO Mangrove rod - and boy am I glad I did!!! This is the perfect setup for whipping the edge of the flats. I'm going to move the Stradic FK 4000 to the Nitro 13' rod - but that will be another post. After a few casts I brought this guy to hand - Marlon caught two back to back - first this Hinalea. He referred to them as "the Bluegill of the Sea"! And then this fat hawkfish put a good bend in his rod!!! We wondered if it was the same one I caught a few weekends back... We kept walking south and Marlon found a moray eel - and then another. They were holed up in the flat and we only saw a small part of their bodies. After a couple of snags, I decided to call it and we started to walk back in. Marlon saw some moving black things on the way back in - turns out they were blacktip shark fins so we walked over to take a closer look. There ended up being four sharks on the spit. Knowing there were probably kaku in the area, I tied on the kaku crack fly and cast out. I got two hooks ups and now a new go to fly!!! This drew more interest at a faster rate than the Kaku Candy fly (so I know what I'm tying more of now). Oh - I did break out some kit I got a while back - the Umpqua Chest Pack worked well. It was where I would normally carry my arms while retrieving, but the pack does hold more than the TOPO sling and keeps everything right up front. I'll keep using this for a bit. Great day fishing!!!!

Sunday Afternoon Flies

I tied more pink flies. One is a standard bulbous minnow and the other is a high-tied keel minnow. And I tied a couple of mylar minnows (Kaku Crack) - in my typical short size and the new stinger setup. I'm gunning for some kaku to hit the long one - supposedly they really like eating needlefish. The stinger is connected to the front hook with a piece of Tyger Wire (tied with a two turn clinch, with the tag end whipped finished with the tying thread). I really want to test this one out...

Kaku Crack Not Working

I've been fishing several times now and have not caught a fish. For fly fishing, this fly in particular was supposed to be the "never fail" solution when a bite had to be conjured up. I still haven't broken the dry spell... (I didn't count the actual syllables, but this was supposed to be a haiku).