Innholdsfortegnelse for November 1978 i Hawaii Fishing News

I’ve just returned from a trip to the mainland where I ordered fresh swordfish at every opportunity. If you haven’t tried it yet, you’re in for a real treat. It’s the best. A few Honolulu fish markets are trying to cash in on the demand for fresh swordfish steaks by advertising swordfish but selling striped marlin. Buyer beware, there is a notable difference in texture, taste and price…. Rick Rose, skipper of the Aerial II, working the Maui Triangle, came up with what may be a first in Hawaii trolling history, capturing one or more marlin each day for nine consecutive days, a total of 10 Pacific blues and one striped. “They were podding,” says Rick, “literally rolling under balls of opelu.” They were so thick on one occasion, a…

This article refers to the 1,257 pound Pacific Blue Marlin caught off Kailua Kona, on Sept. 25, 1978 by Robert H. Waryas of Lynchburg, Virginia, while fishing on a 5 person share charter aboard the Charter Boat Islander with Capt. Marlin Parker and Crewman Douglas Haigh. The fish was taken on Rod and Reel using 80 pound Mono line and artificial home made lure in 1 hour and 30 minutes. Capt. Marlin Parker, age 23, of the boat Islander, is the son of Capt. George Parker, of the boat Mona H, senior Charter Boat Skipper in the Hawaiian Islands. Marlin has learned very quickly, crewing for 20 months on the Islander and Skippering the same boat for 9 months under his own Captain’s License. But, how could a man miss…

Filet of Fish with Crab Sauce Almost any filet of mahi, ono, paka, ehu, uku or onaga is very good with this excellent sauce. Easy to do and takes One pound of filet 2tbsp. butter2 tbsp. flour1 cup milk or ½ and ½ cream(3 oz.) of crabmeat pepper, salt, and ¼ cup white wine Grease oven proof baking dish with butt in dish. Melt 2 tbsp butter in small pan, add flour, stir briefly and add milk or cream slowly, stirring until it thickens. Add wine, pepper, crabmeat, and salt. Pour over fish, file and cook in 350 degree oven for 15 minutes. Garnish with parsley and lemon wedges. Ono!…

October is fishing tournament month on Maui, and this October two of the State’s most popular events will be held in the four isle county of Maui. The first event, (see story elsewhere in this issue) is the ever popular Lanai Rendevous. The second event, for which coverage will have to wait until our December issue is the 2nd Annual Lahaina Championship Jackpot Fishing Tournament. Both of these tournaments are done in the traditional Maui style. The Rendevous is low key—the tournament rules are relaxed enough so that skiff fishermen and tournament champions alike can enjoy the casual tournament atmosphere—without any feeling of unfair competition. Tournament Coordinator Bunky Gannon has the job of pulling together the event and he has done a masterful job for the last 7 odd years.…

A large Navy barge has been anchored outside the harbor at Pokai Bay since the end of September and will remain there until the 10th of November. Headed up by Art Erwin, who until recently owned the PAMELA, tests are under way on the Mark 12 diving helmet using mixed gases in 100 to 300 feet of water. Divers have been going down to the bottom in pairs monitored above by observers through voice and TV contact. Small TV cameras are mounted on the top of each helmet. During the first week of diving, one of the men spotted a good-sized lobster on the bottom in a small crevasse. Unfortunately that lobster had a roommate named Mr. Moray Eel. Undaunted, the Navymen kept checking out the hole each time they…

On December 30, the First Annual Hawaii State Powerboat Classic will be run. Now as a fisherman or weekend boater you’re saying, “so what, what do I care about a boat race!? What does a boat race have to do with a monthly column concerning boat maintenance?” … Well, the answer to that is simple, “EVERYTHING!” As I said when I first started writing this column some months ago, I have been actively involved in boat racing for some fifteen years. During this time, I have seen many improvements come from our racing program directly to the retail consumer’s market. Power trim, trim tabs, power steering, better props just to name a few directly related items. Every major producer of Marine products and Marine related products has been or is…

Since this is “squidding” season, we did some experimenting with octopus cooking ans were amazed to discover how easy and delicious it was we “cannot” the octopus in mason or ball jars. (Best Foods pint-sized mayonnaise jars will do it’s easier to find the lids and ringer.) After Cleaning the octopus, we cut it up into 2” pieces, stuffed them into sterile print-sixed jars, and added ½ tsp. of salt and 1tsp. of vinegar. Then we cooked them in a pressure cooker for 1 ½ hours at 10 lbs. of pressure. (whichever way you cook your octopus, these recipes already-cooked octopus.) Octopus with Broccoli 2 Ibs. cooked octopus, 2” pieces2 onions, cut in quarters2 sticks celery, cut diagonally2 lbs. fresh broccoli, incl, stalks, cut diagonally½ cup oil2 tsp. grated green…

2493 marlin, lifetime catch, 89 marlin caught only on lures in one year, former Olympic swimmer—this is just part of the story of Captain Rope Nelson. In his 35 years of charter fishing, Rope has had dozens of hair-raising brushes with the Grim Reaper but emerged relatively unscathed. His skill and success on the sea can be attributed to his Tahitian ancestry mixed with the rugged ancestry of sea loving northern Europeans. In his 50’s, Rope is a giant of a man, well tanned with deep blue eyes that belie his Polynesian background. Rope is a Wailuku, Maui boy with a Tahitian mother. His grandfather was Henry Herman Von Hamm Von Popoplski who owned the island of Rouk in the Solomon Islands. Rope fished on the island of Oahu for…

As a whole the representative populations (largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, bluegill) of the bass family in Hawaii rank among the healthiest in the world. The diseases that are known to occur do not substantially affect growth or reproduction, are seldom fatal, at worst only temporarily degrade the appearance of the fish, and cannot infect humans. The basses on the mainland U.S., on the other hand, are plagued by a variety of widespread and serious parasitic worm infections that can limit both the size of and growth in bass populations and that can permanently impair the aesthetic appearance of the fish. Some may be transmissible to humans. These infections, the most serious of diseases affecting the bass family, are described below:’ Grubs: Grubs are the bane of freshwater fishermen on the…

Tournament Results Marlin 1st Place 458-lb-Bobby Andrade ELE KAI II 2nd Place 301 1/4-lb-Casey Cho-CATFISH 3rd Place 188-lb-Chris Lee 188-lb-Chris Lee-GERI—ANN Ahi 1st Place 186 3/4-lb-Allan Chang-BILLFISHER Il 2nd Place 118 1/4-lb-Ralph Acedilla CHARLOTTE A 3rd Place 108 1/2-lb-Gordon Estavillo-DAR’S RAGE Mahimahi 1st Place 30-lb 5 oz-Joseph Kamaka MANO NUI 2nd Place 27-lb 14 oz-J. Matsumoto-LI’L AUDREY 3rd Place 23-lb 1 oz-Andy Souza-LORRAINE A Ono 1st Place 45-lb-Kenneth Takata-MACHO KA! 2nd Place 33-lb 3oz-Jake Hoopai-KAIMANU 3rd Place 32-lb-David Cho-CATFISH Aku 1st Place 21-lb 9 oz-Allan Chang-BILLFISHER III 2nd Place 20-lb 3 oz-Junior Quemado-KWAI LAN 3rd Place 13-lb 15 oz-Willy Failautusi-KANANI J Kawakawa 1st place 11-lb 8 oz-F. Freitas-KUULEIALOHA 2nd Place 20-lb 3 oz-Junior Quemado-KWAI LAN 3rd Place 13-lb 15 oz-Willy Failautusi-KANANI J KawaKawa 1st place 11-lb 8 oz-F. Freitas-KUULEIALOHA 2nd…

That’s a question now drawing battle lines between Kona fishermen and the commercial sampan fleet The installation by the National Marine Fisheries Service of a “fish-aggragation” buoy off Kona’s Kaiwi Point has been so successful that it has developed a major and dependable fishing grounds for Kona’s fleet of charter, handling and recreational fishermen. It has also attracted commercial aku sampans from Oahu and one of the latter has destroyed the fishing in the opinions of many local fishermen. The commercial aku boat Anela of Honolulu fished the buoy at the end of September and “cleaned the whole school out,” according to Donald Fujiwara. Fujiwara is the operator of Yama’s, a fishing supply store frequented by most of Kona’s commercial and sport fishermen. Jeff Fay, skipper of the charter boat…