Innholdsfortegnelse for December 1981 i Hawaii Fishing News

HAWAIIAN WATERS WEATHER Weather fa Hawaiian waters will play a more important role fa any Marine activity during winter. Mariners are advised that the change from good to bad weather can be fast The severe Weather events that can occur, in decreasing order of frequency, are: gusty trade winds, high northwest swell and surf, cold front with Kona winds, and kona low. The strongest trade winds are the winter-type trades that can occur in December. The number of trade wind days will be low—only about half of the days of the month — but gusty trades can occur on about a fourth to a third of the daysuin December. High northwest swell and surf will be trequent along the exposed northern shores. Expect about 29 days with surf greater than…

Hawaii’s anglers have a unique opportunity to enjoy some of the world’s finest spin fishing right in our own “backyards”. The fish aggregating devices in Hawaiian waters can provide hours of action-packed fishing for the light tackle enthusiasts. In recent weeks we have boated scores of shibi ko, aku and mahimahi using light tackle and homemade “Hula Makau” or “dancing fish hooks”, so named because of their enticing action as they tumble to the depths. These lures are easily made from materials readily available in local stores and have proven effective over and over again, even in shallow water where they’ve caught papio, awa awa and barracuda. To make your own “Hula Makau” start with a torpedo lead sinker. The least expensive ones can be found in the window curtain…

■ The time has come to talk of rules — tournament rules — the rules that lay down the laws under which we fish most of Hawaii’s tournaments. It is time to synchronize the rules for every major tournament in Hawaii — come to some common understanding as to which rules are “good, which are bad, which are necessary, which need legal justification and which should be eliminated. To start — we need a premise and I for one would like to suggest that the first premise be that it is assumed that all fishermen are basically honest and that therefore no rules be written purely to overcome simple dishonesty. Secondly we should assume that the IGFA, with over 40 years of experience with fishermen and fishing techniques all over…

■ A testimonial dinner for Bruce Carter is scheduled for Friday, January 15th, 1982 at the Waikiki Sheraton Hotel. Sponsored by the friends of Bruce Carter, fishing clubs are joining together to honor Bruce who has given us many fine years of reporting on fishing news on TV and in the newspapers. Fishermen from all over the Hawaiian Islands are expected to attend. A delicious dinner and great entertainment will be $25.00 per head. Tables will hold ten people. Guests are asked to reserve a whole table at $250.00, if possible, and fill that table with their friends. Individual orders will be seated according to the time of reservations. Cocktails will be at 6pm with dinner starting at 7 pm. Checks for $25.00 per person may be made out to…

■ At first consideration an inflatable raft seems an idea! fishing craft for river or lake, and more are being utilized in ocean angling all the time. But would you seriously contemplate employing such a vessel in big game sportfishing? The obvious and immediate response, especially if you picture one of those thorny bills on a Pacific blue, would be a definite no. Richard Hoffman, resident of the Kona area, will be the first to disagree with your conclusion however. It has been a dream of his to prove a theory that an inflatable is capable of being used for just such a purpose. Mr. Hoffman operates the RUBBER DUCK in Kainaliu where he stocks Achilles and Kallegari inflatable rafts. Being involved with these types of crafts for ten years,…

■ The fishing on the northshore improved slightly in October as the mahimahi have showed up in our waters for their fall run. The marlin action hasn’t yet matched last year’s but those longnoses are still popping up often enough to make fishing interesting. Ben Shaw on his 19½-foot Glas-Ply, the LILIA, wasted no time getting a fast start with a nifty 130-pound blue and stories of the other three marlin he lost. Ben says he even fought a small marlin on his handline for a short time before the leader broke. On October 9th the STACEE K ventured far north outside Kahuku Point. With owner Charlie Hedlund at the helm and Terry Sandell for crew, these two fishermen came across some floating debris and had themselves quite a day.…

AHI SCHOOLS BREAK ■ Fishing along the Waianae coastline during the month of October was a surprise to everyone. The ahi busted all the way from outside Nanakuli to Makaha. On Oct: 3rd Clarence Adams, Big Mac Macalino, 12-year-old Jason Morimisato and Clarence’s 4-year-old son, Kimo, were out hunting some 4 miles off Twin Mountains and hooked into a big ahi. Since there had been no Allison tuna around for weeks, it was a very happy event. Shortly after they had boarded the fish, they swung back through the birds and hooked up again! Big Mac Macalino fought both fish and landed them both. One was about 120 pounds but the other scaled in at over 200! Jason also had fun while fighting a 35-pound bull mahimahi. While Mac was…

SHARE YOUR CATCH, SEND PHOTO + COPY TO HFN HOLOHOLO P.O. BOX 25413 HONOLULU, HAWAII 96825. SPINNING HAWAII STYLE Having had a boat of my own for over two years, I’ve never caught anything to really talk about, I’ve tried to learn as much as possible through Kani Evans’ class at the UH, Hawaii Fishing News and through younger, but more experienced, fishermen — Wendell and Guy Yuen. About three months ago a good friend, John Yuen (Wendell and Guys’ brother), purchased a 16-foot boat so his brothers could teach his son Troy (age ten) to troll. John, not really being a fisherman but being in the marine business, thought he should try his hand at fishing too. He went out with Wendell several times and learned the “ropes” of…

As dawn broke over Hualalai on the Kona Coast on October 24th, a visit to Honokahau Harbor would present a picture of thirty-eight boats preparing for the last tournament of the season on the Big Island. This competition was a one-day event, fishing from 7:00 in the am until 2:00 in the afternoon. A slight tension could be felt among the one hundred and nineteen anglers participating as teams completed last minute preparations on equipment. At last the time came to proceed to the starting line at Kailua Harbor. Anglers reviewed rules set down at the previous night’s briefing where Rev, Leon Sterling had given a stirring blessing…”Jesus loved fishermen” was called to mind as well as important instructions on CB handling during the competition. And the fabulous prizes being…

■ Eh, howzit? I’m back to talk stories with you folks one more time before we start all that Mele Kalikimaka jazz and the shaka questions about who is giving who what? No sweat. I got my Christmas shopping all pau already. Down at the supermarket they give me da kine stamps an’ I been saving da buggahs all year long. Now all I gotta do is go down to one of da stamp centers, scoop up all kine stuffs an das da end already. Hey, how about one scotch and soda before I tell you one really disgusting story? What I want to tell you folks is about all da sneaky stuffs that goes on in the never ending bureaucracy between one government agency and another and how the…

PRINCESS KUKUI BOTTOM FISHES AT NIIHAU Waianae’s Mana “Capt. Ram” Maunakea and Ernie Leong have been taking the 42-foot PRINCESS KUKUI to Niihau for bottom fishing this past month. Along as fish fighters and crew have been Sam Kapoi and Eric Grundon. The PRINCESS KUKUI used to be the BARBARA L. owned by well-known fisherman Pierre Letourneau. On their first trip to Niihau, the quartet landed a 560-pound billfish, some ono and about 200 pounds of menpachi and perch. While Mana was swimming near the reef on the South Point side of the island, he came across the huge Hawaiian monk seal that is known to inhabit that area. It was sunbathing on the rocks. On their second trip over, their bottom fishing total consisted of 260 pounds of menpachi…

■ Charles V. Brown, M.D. spoke softly and smiled loudly. He moved with spring and purpose. He profoundly touched thousands — from children on a beach, to Diver Instructor Training Course candidates, International Conference on Underwater Education attendees, readers of Skin Diver Magazine, NAUI News and the Underseas Journal — to his professional contemporaries and his many patients. His vocation as a healer intertwined with his hobby of the sea, which encircled his destiny as an educator and a friend. Charlie was a translator. He added a dose of humor as he unraveled the mysteries of diving medicine and human physiology for the everyday scuba diver. He parleyed as easily with researchers and students. Charlie’s achievements were prodigious. He humbly accepted the major awards of diving — NAUI Service Award,…

■ Over the past thirty years, I’ve read every fishing story ever written by Phillip Wylie. Wylie wrote fishing yarns good enough to be regular features in popular magazines of the classic era like The Saturday Evening Post as well as pounding out fishing adventures for the fin-fur-and-feathers journals. His tales about Florida fishing chartermen Crunch and Des were even the basis for an early T.V. show of the flickering black and white 1950s. But I remember one story especially vividly, even after thirty years. Its central theme was an intriguing question; if you had to choose just one fishing lure to use, and no other, what lure would it be? As I recall, Wylie fleshed out the tale by making the lure the essential ingredient in a survival kit…

Many very experienced fishermen don’t know that you can catch opelu on a hook. As a result, they miss out on a lot of fun. Catching opelu on spinning tackle is great sport. To catch opelu, you need to know what tackle to use and where to fish. Let’s begin by choosing our equipment. First of all, pick a spinning rod that is stiff enough to handle a two-ounce sinker. You need that much weight to sink your line down to the bottom in the places where opelu hang out. You’ll need a spinning reel big enough to hold 150 yards of line. Your line should be between 10- and 15-pound test. I like to use ten-pound test line because the sinker can pull it down more quickly. Strong line…

■ One of the compensations for returning to Oahu from sunny Kona where the seas are always calm, where one can fish everyday of the week and almost every strike is a leaping leviathan and where the Kona people are the friendliest in Hawaii, is the renewed, opportunity to go to the fish-filled waters of Molokai. Here are mahimahi in abundance, an occasional ono, fat ulua off Ilio and Laau Points and best of all — SNAPPERS — opakapaka, uku, ikiiki (gindai), ulaula (ehu), ulaula koae (onaga) plus an occasional hapuupuu, papio, kahala or kaku. One never comes home empty-handed from Molokai! There are hundreds of spots that are favorite feeding grounds for this plethora of beautiful table fish. Lately, I have discovered a new way to rig my handlines…

Case #1: No one is the winner. Team A took the tournament to court after it ruled that its protest was disallowed. The decision had been tied up in court for years. Case #2: Team X had its fish disqualified because the leader was not in one piece when presented to the judges, even though all of the leader and techniques to catch the fish were legal and in order. Case #3: The fish was qualified — the judges believed the team’s story that the wrong tackle had been handed to the judges initially. Case #4: The fish was ruled legal by the judges and it won the tournament. Case #5: It was ruled that when Team D signed the weighmaster’s certificate agreeing with the original weight of the fish,…

■I was approached by Hawaii Fishing News to speak on boating safety with regard to charter sport fishing. Views expressed will be purely my own of course and may or may not jive with those held by other charter boat operators. Charter sport fishing is the activity of using a boat to take people fishing offshore in payment usually for a set monetary fee. Anglers are carried for hire. It is this portion of the activity that sets charter sport fishing apart from ordinary offshore boating and fishing which is purely for recreational purposes with no for hire concept. Taking passengers for hire makes all the differernce in the world in the degree of responsibility assumed by the persons offering the service. In effect, the boat owner, the booking agent,…

■ It’s almost impossible to be exposed to Bruce Bassett without becoming aware that he is deeply concerned about diving safety. He believes that the Navy Dive Tables are not exactly what the sport diver needs. We use them because there is nothing better available. Bruce has performed validation tests for sport diving tables as part of his work on diving physiology for the Air Force. He presented the results and recommendations as part of his talk, “Proposed Design for New Sports Dive Tables”, at Seaspace (Diving Seminar). Points made during his talk which are of particular interest to all sport divers were: 1) Longer, shallower dives produce a greater incidence of the bends than shorter deep dives. 2) Navy divers don’t push the limits of the dive tables. 3)…