Second Fishing Outting of the Year

Marlon has been asking to go fishing for a couple of weeks now, so I figured I'd oblige.  We hit the channel this morning on the low tide and pitched ika strips.  There was no wind so it would have been really hard to flyfish for oio today.

We saw this crab on the way out.

And after seeing a bunch of fish tail our hooks with no takers, I finally got one to play tug.  Clean hook up in the corner of the mouth (easy to remove the hook and minimizes damage).  Nice moana!

I actually lost a bunch of tackle to snags.

Nice way to spend the morning!  It's hard to believe this is only our second time out fishing this year (foiling has officially taken over the free time).   Marlon took all the pictures today.

Lone Papio

Marlon and I opted to go fishing this morning.  I got one to take the bait -

I had a few other follows - a kaku chasing the bubble float, another unidentified - but no other takers.  Still nice to walk the flats and see the sights!

Fishing with Bong Again

My friend Bong is leaving the island so I offered to take him fishing again.  We hit Kaimalino, but the wind and waves were up a little more than I had thought they would be.

Opihi

Hauukeuke

We packed up and went to the pier at the Marine Base.

Until we fish again Bong!!!

Cool Stuff at the Local Pet Shop

With a conure and a chameleon at the house now, we find ourselves visiting our local pet shop more frequently.  They have been bringing in some really cool stuff lately.  These clownfish were almost pure black!

I have pictures of Marlon doing this when he was much younger

I'm trying to cycle a container to house some of these shrimp.  Watching lawn mowers is pretty relaxing

I guess I'd bite too if I lived in a cage full time, but then if I didn't maybe I wouldn't bite, but then if I just bite for the heck of it....

Kinda looks like the new rebooted Godzilla -

Fishing - Sunday June 17th 2018

I was able to go fishing with Bong Dela Cruz!!!  This guy helped me find some cool fishing spots on DG - I was finally able to return the favor out here!

He outfished Marlon and I by using artificials (2" grubs) - I'm going to have to rethink my fishing tactics... he caught and released 4 papio and 1 lai (queenfish).

Marlon hooked up to a barracuda and two po'opa'a

I ended up with two papio - can't complain!!!  Awesome fishing day!!!

More Fishing (Cause there wasn't any Catching)

I took the kids out again this afternoon.  We had a good time hanging out - but we didn't get any fish to hand.

In fact I got snagged five times (that is a lot for me).  Despite the lack of action, we had a great time exploring the flat.

New Spot

We had some errands to run on Saturday, so I took Marlon to a new spot that was (kinda) on the way.

We waded Hawaii Kai - only saw one humuhumunukunukuapua'a and one grazing green sea turtle.

Perhaps if we got closer to the break we would have seen more fish - I think this would be a good place to take out the Hooked SUP...

Using Bait to Break the No Catching Streak

I took Marlon out this morning to get some fishing in.  I saw a bunch of tailing bonefish on the way out to the channel (I should have turned around and grabbed the flyrod...) - but the mission was to catch fish and not just fish.  Ika strips and spinning gear = catching!!!

Marlon caught the first fish - a good sized po'opa'a (po - o - pah - ah).

And I got my first fish in quite some time - a "just too small to eat - because these should grow and spawn first" papio

The next fish I hooked up to was a coronet fish - this one was barely hooked (I think it just really wanted to the eat the squid).

And I even picked up a third - another papio!

Next time I'm going to bring my light game St Croix Triumph rod.  We called it after this fish and pressed our luck at the harbor side.  We tried flyfishing for the humuhumunukunukuapua'a but the tide had filled in and the wind picked up substantially.  Well - we at least got to catch a few!!!