Innholdsfortegnelse for July 1982 i Hawaii Fishing News

■ Pacific Casting Club’s annual awards banquet was recently held at the Ranch House Restaurant. Although there was not as much ulua caught this year, the “biggy” was there…Norman Okinaka’s 129-pound ulua which was not only the largest ulua for 1981 but also the largest in the history of the club. Danny Masuda, club president, was the undisputed leader in total weight category, landing 21 ulua for a total weight of 651 pounds. In second place was Brian Loui with a total weight of 318½-pounds, followed by Norman Okinaka’s 285-pounder. In third place, Glen Tanabe weighed in 10 ulua for a total of 217 pounds, while Wally Pilor had 6 ulua for a total of 185 pounds. Other who received awards were Joe Raydon, Dennis Inamine, Leslie Hata, Roger Uchibori…

Around Lake Wilson ■ It looks like summer has finally arrived, and the water is starting to behave the way it should. It is still very clear for this time of the year, but at least it’s dropping out of the grass and forcing the fish into their old haunts where we can get a lure at them. There has been one major problem with the lower water level. It is slightly hazardous to come through the new bridge construction at any water level, but with the lower level, at one point, it is impossible to get through at all. This was demonstrated recently when one angler who launched at the boat ramp was able to go through the bridge construction in the early morning but was unable on his…

■ Ever since January, I’ve been dreaming of rainbow trout: stalking ‘em, fighting ‘em, and cooking ‘em. The largemouth bass may be the most popular freshwater gamefish in Hawai‘i, but for me, the rainbow trout is the real prize! It started when I got my copy of the fishermen’s wishbook, the Cabela’s Spring Catalog. It has pages of fishing equipment, including specialized rods for bass, walleye and trout. When I reached the section on lures, I was hooked (pun intended). The page I stopped at displayed a colorfull array of flies, streamers, and nymphs, most of them designed to entice and catch trout. The tired, old saying that lures catch fishermen, not fish, may be a cliche, but it certainly is accurate. How many times have you bought a lure…

KAILUA-KONA CHIRIPA Captain Murray Mathews Phone (808) 325-6527 P.O. Box 2574 Kailua-Kona, Hi 96740 DIAMOND “S” Captain Tommy Rietow Phone (808) 329-6237 76-6322 Mahuahua PI. Kailua Kona. Hi 96740 FOXY LADY I & II Captain Joe Cahan Phone (808) 325-5552 P.O. Box 340 Kailua-Kona, Hi 46740 HANAMANA Captain Jack Fischer Phone (808) 329-3493 P.O. Box 822 Kailua Kona. Hi 95740 DA WARRIOR Captain Mary Ann Berzanskis Phone (808) 322-3323 77-350 Emalia Place Kailua-Kona 96740 TOPSALL VIII Captain George S. Parker Phone (808) 324 1245 P.O. Box 38 Kailua-Kona. Hi 96740 WHITE ROC Captain George Molholm Phone (808) 322-3832 RR 1. Box 210 Kailua Kona, Hi 96740 ULTIMATE Captain Myrna Holdredge Phone (808) 329-5117 P.O. Box 906 Kailua-Kona Hawaii 96740 HOWDY Captain Bill Jotsy Phone (808) 323-3515 Kealakekua, Hi 96750 KAILUA-KONA…

■ The ahi finally showed up along the Northshore, corning in force during the month of May. Most of the action was found in two separate areas. One area was five to eight miles off the Kuilima hotel, and the other areas was the waters off Ka’ena Point. The first boat to catch ahi in May was the O’MAKA. Kenneth Tamura was fishing some six miles off Ka’ena Point when he hooked up and landed an estimated 150-pound ahi. On the way home, Kenneth topped off the day with a nice ono. Usually along with ahi schools, there are a few big marlin. One of these monsters, which was estimated at over 800-pounds, was brought into the harbor on May 5 by the AILEAN K. Unfortunately, the counter-weight for the…

Macadoo Has Big Marlin Action and More Other recent newcomers to the Waianae Boat Harbor are Charles “Mac” McPherson and his wife Joyce who own the MACADOO. On Mother’s Day, Joyce and Mac took their son Greg out fishing. Joyce had received a white bottle bait from Doc McKinney and decided that it was the right day to try it out. She ran it up on a 14-0 reel attached to an outrigger. It was only a matter of a few moments before that white bottle suddenly took off with a great big marlin gyrating at the end of the line! Greg quickly grabbed the 14-0, sat in the fighting chair, and started to do battle with that charging marlin. First Greg’s harness broke. Mac tied it up with white…

■ Saturday, June 12, 1982: What a day! At 8 a.m. yawning parents clutching thermos bottles full of coffee accompanied some 200 bright-eyed youngsters registering for the 6th Annual Tilapia Derby held at the Wahiawa Freshwater Park on Lake Wilson. All the Derby participants were fully equipped for the contest as free fishing kits were given to them, compliments of Izuo Brothers, Inc. Fishing began at 9 a.m., and as always, there was a mad scramble as everyone raced for his favorite “best spot”. For many of the young anglers, the spot was at one of the two outfalls — the Whitmore Village outfall or the Wahiawa outfall. But regardless of the spot’s location, wherever the youngsters put their lines, the fish were there and biting. Luckily, every youngster was…

P.O. BOX 25413 HONOLULU, HAWAI‘I 96825 SEND PHOTO AMD COPN AND WE WILL SEND YOU AN ORIGINAL BOB NEUWEILER HULA MAKAU JIG, OUR WAN OF SANING THANKS FOR SHARING NOUR CATCH!…CHUCK Gentlemen, Your Hawaii Fishing News is very outstanding for us local guys. Keep up the good news. Itsuo Sakata Kalaheo, Hawai‘i Chuck, Here is a picture of that ahi which was caught in Makaha by John Akuna on June 2, 1982. It weighed 23-lb. 2-oz. and 38 inches long. John caught it in a throw net. Possibly a record for this style of fishing! Joe Perez Waianae, Oahu Dear Chuck, TOFU strikes again! We hooked the 42-lb. mahimahi amidst a bunch of boats at the Romeo buoy on April 18th. The bull took a 2½-lb. live aku on 50-lb.…

■ Spinning tackle was invented to make casting easy. As a result it isn’t really very well designed for fighting a fish. But if you follow some simple rules and avoid making some common mistakes, you’ll be able to land some very big fish with your spinning rod and have a lot of fun in the process. Let’s look at some do’s and don’ts. (1) Be Ready. In any type of fishing, the strike of a fish is almost always a surprise when it happens. Even though you don’t know the exact moment a fish will hit, you must be prepared for it. Your equipment has to be ready to do its job, and your mind has to be set to do the right things. Having your equipment ready means…

Miller Beer Jackpot Fishing Tournament July 3rd & 4th …………………Phone (808) 373-3021 Kona Ahi Tournament July 17th & 18th ………………..Phone (808) 322-3832 Hawaiian Invitational Allison Tuna Tournament July 19th thru 23rd ………………Phone (808) 548-4992 Hawaiian Billfish Tournament August 6th thru 13th ………………Phone (808) 922-9708 Waianae Coast Trolling Tournament August 20th & 21st ………………Phone: (808) 696-6375 or 696-4057 Hawaiian International Billfish Tournament August 13th thru 22nd ………………Phone (808) 922-9708 Chuck Machado’s Luau Jackpot Fishing Tournament September 17th thru 21st ………………Phone (808) 836-0249 Lanai Rendezvous October 9th thru 10th ………………Phone (808) 877-4917 Lahaina Wahine Jackpot Fishing Tournament October 27th ………………Phone (808) 661-0191 Lahaina Championship Jackpot Fishing Tournament October 29th thru 31st ………………Phone (808) 661-0191…

■ Pre-tournament jitters is what gets you up at 4 a.m. even if you don’t really have to be up until 5:30 a.m. Pre-tournament jitters is what makes you get to the harbor 20 minutes before you are expected, even if your expected time of arrival is half an hour earlier than necessary. Pre-tournament jitters is what makes you pack more gear, food and refreshments than you can possible use in one day, and plan your attire, attack, approach and activity with a zeal not previously known in fishing. Pre-tournament jitters is what I got before this year’s Wee Guys ’82 Fishing Tournament. Why? Certainly there is no reason for me to get nervous prior to covering another fishing tournament—God knows I’ve done that often enough in the last five…

Cecil Ross, President Mid Pacific Boat Works, Inc. Yacht Builders, Designers and Project Consultants ■ We will start this month’s column by answering a few queries received that pertain to previous projects. Question—While fixing the gaff marks, I noticed some crazing of the gel coat, somewhat like spider webs. What is this and what can be done? Answer—Essentially, these are stress marks and could indicate flexing of the hull at these places. This could be just a cosmetic fault, as all hulls flex a little, but if the builder has applied the gel coat and resin too thickly in this certain area with insufficient backup fabric, it could go a little deeper. Once again, as for the gaff marks, you have to damage more in order to repair. Dig in…

■ In some of the earliest accounts of fishing in Hawaii, ancient Hawaiian fishermen are pictured wrapping pieces of fish around flat stones with braided olona handlines. Take yourself back to those ancient days… An ancient Hawaiian fisherman, drifting over deep ocean in his outrigger canoe, takes an opelu and baits it to a handline made of braided olona strips from the olona shrub and a handmade hook from human bone. Carefully, he lays the hooked opelu on a flat stone, securing it to the stone with a few turns of the olona line. Then he wraps layer after layer of palu to the stone, also securing them to the stone with turns of the olona line. Finally, a slip knot is tied. Taking the wrapped stone, the fisherman lowers…

■ You’ll never find two anglers who will work their lures the same way. Each will have his or her own variation of retrieving. And the way a fisherman utilizes his lure is usually determined by his past experiences, by how he caught his past catches. A fisherman develops a faith in his lure. He knows with his lure he can catch a fish if he tries long and hard enough. Without this quality, the angler will quickly lose interest and quit. But with the experience of past catches behind him, a fisherman will work his lure with conviction and determination. And he will catch fish, mainly because he knows that he can—if he works his lure right. Types of Lures There are three basic types of whipping lures: the…

■ Each year during the spring, the Kaua’i division of the Easter Seal Society of Hawaii holds its annual shorefishing contest. This popular competition raises much-needed money for the Society to provide speech therapy and infant stimulation services for disabled children and adults on Kaua’i. The tournament also does much to stimulate interest in shorefishing throughout the island. This year, on May 15 & 16, over 500 eager and determined fishermen raced all over Kaua’i to find the best fishing spots and to try their luck. Being the eternal optimist, I too entered the tournament. By 5 a.m. Saturday morning, I was up and ready to go. I gave my friend, Mike Serizawa, a call to let him know I was coming to pick him up. He answered the phone…

■ At the usual mayhem of the monthly meeting of the KULT, a new member—heard in one of those brief moments when everybody in the place shuts up together—mentioned that he had never been able to catch a bluegill, let alone learn what one even looked like. After everyone stopped laughing, we fired him. But that started me thinking. Not everybody is born with the instinct, the foreknowledge, the feeling it takes to be a great fisherman. I was just lucky. Some people, I reasoned, could benefit from clear, lucent, pellucid, perspicuous, unambiguous, short, brief, concise, succinct, compendious, breviloquent information on fish identifications, habitats, feeding habits, time of day, phase of moon, level of tide, alignment of planets, and whether or not the universe started with a “big bang” or…

Captain Alan Ayano recently experimented with a unique method for fishing marlin. While KEALIA was live-baiting last May 23, a stripie attacked his fair-sized aku (approximately ten pounds) rigged on 80-pound test. Angler Dallas Erickson from Corpus Christi, Texas viewed the billfish blasting out of the sea immediately after hitting the bait. Something was definitely amiss with the hook up. The whole skipjack tuna was visible hanging from what appeared to be the side of the marlin’s mouth. Uncharacteristically, the 88-pounder fought a fifteen minute battle on its side, indicating the fish was foul hooked in some manner. Ayano said that the marlin was pulled in by his snout. Then crewman Sadu Therns subdued the stripie while Ayano discovered the new technique that had caught him the fish. The striper’s…

■ A “Big Boats Beware” sign should have been posted in Kailua Harbor the morning of May 22, the day the second annual Wee Guys Tournament began. Only small boats could participate in the unusual two day competition; the number one qualification for entry being that the vessel’s length had to be twenty feet or less. One hundred and one teams entered the tourney this year. What a different look the mass of small crafts gave the harbor. After the start, the group left a stormy cross chop of waves as each boat set a different course to the nearest fish. F-buoy seemed to be a favored target, but a New York City traffic cop would have been hard-pressed to direct the happenings in this area. The largest marlin caught…

The Ultimate Marine Binoculars with Built-In Rangefinder & Compass Introducing the New BINOX 8x30 Binocular The binocular you need at sea must be different. They must be absolutely weatherproof, totally immune to salt air or spray and even submersible. They must be extremely rugged without breakage or dislodging of lenses or prisms. They must have excellent optics to provide viewing and sharp, bright images, even under the worst viewing conditions. They should be lightweight and compact enough to fit into a pocket of your foul-weather gear. BINOX “Sublime”—is the new generation of binoculars designed and built to go to sea. Fitted with a range-finder reticle, the distance of object of known height (or width) can be readily calculated using the built-in calibrated scale. BINOX “Sublime”—are the new watertight binoculars with…

■ Commercial fishing for albacore is new in Hawaii. The Ahipahala or longfin has always shown its presence to longline and night handline fishermen, but few were caught until long-range-mainland trailers arrived in 1979. In the 79 season, May thru September, 26 boats caught four million pounds of albacore. This catch, divided equally among the 26 boats, amounts to 154,000 pounds each. Over a five month period, this makes the average catch per month over 30,000 pounds. The average albacore weighs 15 pounds so each boat caught approximately 2,051 fish per month or 68 fish a day. The news of fresh fishing grounds spread quickly, and in May of this year, the Kewalo Basin skyline was a forest of outriggers as the albacore fleet gathered supplies for the 1982 season.…