Innholdsfortegnelse for November 10, 1979 i Hawaii Fishing News

Dear Sirs, Yes, I wish to renew my subscription to your great newspaper. 1 thoroughly enjoy reading Hawaii Fishing News and I believe that by publishing HFN every 2 weeks, the local fishing coverage is greatly improved. Sincerely,Captain Bart HuberHaleiwa, Hawaii P.S. Keep up the coverage of the “North Shore Action.” Dear Sir, Re your publication of Hawaii Fishing News. Could you please let me know the sub. rates of the paper to New Zealand for 1 year, as I own a Deep Sea Charter Boat here in N.Z. Also am on the Committee of same, so we are very interested in your paper. Yours faithfully,Merv Sowerby Dear Sirs: Please find enclosed check in the amount of $12.00. I would like as many copies of the September 1, 1979 issue…

When out-of-town contestants’ boats began cruising into tiny Lahaina Harbor on Monday, Oct. 22nd, most were preparing to enter both Jackpot tournaments coming up that week. The First Annual Cocoribe Wahine Jackpot was scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 24th, while the $38,000 Third Annual Lahaina Jackpot was ready to go for three days starting the 26th. Most skippers had their boats loaded with lovely lassies looking forward to good fishing, weather and fun. It was also an ideal way to scout the territory for the big tournament. By Tuesday afternoon, the majority of the boats had arrived, and excitement was running high at the harbor, the Lahaina Yacht Club and the Pioneer Inn. Harbormaster Mike Hatton and his assistant, Kevin, began shifting boats around to accomodate the hundreds of thousands of…

Have you ever gone out for a boat dive and the water got choppy anti you became seasick? Afterwards you wonder what caused seasickness. Well, here’s why. Imagine that you have two 3-ring signs buried in the bones of your head. And unless you are very unusual, those rings are likely to turn you green one rough day… and without the need for paint or colors. It’s been only about some 15 years or so since doctors have begun to really understand the source of seasickness and its symptoms. Even the astronauts, when they are in a weightless state, have a similar problem. Deep inside each ear (the inner ear) are your three semicircular canals. Hollowed out of bone, each canal is only about 1/25th of an inch in diameter…

In researching a simple question like—what’s the best hook to use for trolling, one quickly finds that there is no good answer, and that, in fact, the answer most probably lies with personal taste, area preference and past experience far more than practical reason. One also finds an incredible amount of material on fish hooks in general. For one thing, the history of fish hooks dates back well into the Stone Age, and pre-dates “modern man,” whose history on earth only stretches back about 30-40,000 years. One problem with trying to positively date fish hooks is that the early ones were made of bone, wood, horn and shell, and all of these things rot, leaving little trace for historians. It is also probable that fish were first taken with a…

Lahaina fishermen would have had a dull October without the 9th Annual Lanai Rendevous, the 1st Annual Cocoribe Wahine jackpot and the 3rd Annual Lahaina Jackpot Fishing Tournaments. Of course, Captain Alan Thoma just might disagree. On October 2nd aboard the EXACT, Captain Thoma captured his first marlin, a 131-lb Pacific blue, off the Lanai light. Greg Peterson, the angler from Washington State, battled the small billfish 12 minutes after it hit a Sonoda lure. That same afternoon, Captain Rockett aboard the HALCYON boated a 145-lb blue marlin off Kai Ena Point and on October Sth, Captain Kurt Rose brought another small marlin to the scales that hooked up off Kaumalapau aboard the SUNRISE. Two Lahaina teams scored October 6th and 7th competing in the 9th Annual Lanai Rendevous. The…

A combination of educational seminars, practical learning workshops and business sessions plus warm sunshine and sandy beaches are all on the agenda for the American Fishing Tackle Manufacturers Association’s (AFTMA) Annual Business Meeting in the tropical paradise of Hawaii. The “Volcano Island” of Hawaii will be AFTMA’s host for the first part of this meeting, to convene November 8-13, 1979 at the Kona Surf Resort. The Association’s post-convention programs will make two stops, departing first for the island of Maui, where members will stay at the Maui Surf Hotel during November 13-16. The second set of educational programs and activities will conclude on the island of Oahu, “Honolulu, Waikiki,” at the Hyatt Regency Waikiki, November 16-19. Joining AFTMA members for the single most important business meeting of the year, are…

The hottest items in the tournament rumor mill are projected new jackpot tournaments for 1980. Not only will fishermen be able to choose from one money tournament in March, three in May, one each in July and September and two in October, but it appears that Hilo fishermen may organize the first Hilo jackpot fishing tournament to coincide with the opening of their best ahi season. With the promise of five ahi per boat per day in the better fishing periods—Hilo could be a hot place for a tournament! The other probable event will be Hawaii’s first night fishing tournament. The spread of “ikashibi” fishing, the capture of a world record albacore this summer off Kona, and the occasional catches of broadbill by night fishermen, as well as the huge…

MARLIN CAUGHT OURING THE LAHAINA JACKPOT FISHING TOURNAMENT RESULTS — 3rd ANNUAL LAHAINA JACKPOT FISHING TOURNAMENT ONO DIVISION MAHIMAHI DIVISION AHI DIVISION…

Only recently has panic in divers been recognized as a significant cause of fatal diving accidents. There is no specific cause of panic. Virtually any situation that requires extra effort or is strange to the diver can lead to panic. The one common denominator is that the diver acts irrationally (i.e. loses his ‘cool’). Since water is not a natural environment, the psychological effects of losing control in this foreign environment can be much more terrifying than on land. Once the diver panics, he begins to breathe very rapidly and inefficiently. The term “involuntary hyperventilation” has been used to describe this process. In this situation, the exchange of oxygen (gas necessary to sustain life) and carbon dioxide (a waste product of metabolism) is substantially reduced in proportion to energy expended…

The Pearl Divers Club is one of the oldest SCUBA diving clubs in the United States, having been formed at Pearl Harbor by a group of Navy divers in 1957. Membership in the club is open to all military personnel and their dependents and includes over 500 inactive members who have moved away from the Hawaii area and 140 active members who are today participating in club activities. The principle goals of Pearl Divers are to promote safe, recreational SCUBA diving, and to increase the personal enjoyment of diving by joining together to provide activities not available to individual divers. Facilities of the Pearl Divers Club include a clubhouse and boat loft in the Naval Supply Center on the Pearl Harbor Navy Base, five inflatable boats from 12 to 18…

We didn’t stop long in Pierre, South Dakota, despite the fact that this is a town that takes its fishing seriously—perhaps even too seriously. Now, you say, how can anyone take his fishing too seriously, even in a place like Pierre? A recent fishing story from Pierre should tell you all you need to know. It seems they had this “South Dakota Open Walleye Championship” on the Missouri River which goes right alongside Pierre. The walleye is a mean, ugly looking fish with spikes for teeth and eyes that look like cold granite pebbles. The meanness of the walleye is not really germane to the story, except as it may have rubbed off on some of the participants. Well now, to get along with the story, these two local Pierre…