Innholdsfortegnelse for January 1983 i Hawaii Fishing News

Hawaiian Waters Weather ■ Weather in January, the middle of winter, can be varied — ranging from very nice to very bad days. More days will be nice, but the month probably will have some severe weather that no one should be caught in. The onset or approach of bad weather is faster than at other times and the weather is more severe. You don’t want to be surprised by the sudden change from good to bad weather. The severe weather events that are likely to occur are the same as those of last month. Listed in decreasing order of possible occurrence are: gusty trade winds, high northeast swell and surf, cold front with gusty Kona winds, upper trough and Kona lows. Gusty trades continue to be the most frequent…

■ It is difficult to say who first discovered that tuna and offshore fish like to hang out around floating objects. It has certainly been a number of years since fishermen’s hearts began to pound double-time at the sight of a log drifting on the open sea. Many of the exceptional catches in recent history have been made around floating debris. For example, HFN-staffer Bart Huber caught 88 mahimahi near a drifting cargo net. To my knowledge, no larger catch of mahi has ever been made without floating debris of some kind. Needless to say, fishermen don’t find a drifting cargo net every day and the days we do are memories for a lifetime. In April 1980, fishermen’s dreams became reality when the most significant advance in Hawai‘i’s offshore fishing…

■ The first yellowfin tuna world record on 16-lb. test line is held by Barry H. Bovee of Kona and California. He caught his 146-lb. yellowfin tuna at Keahole Point, island of Hawaii, on Feb. 14, 1982. Barry was fishing aboard the charter boat REEL AFFAIR, skippered by Capt. John Jordan. Throughout the rest of the year there were several other world records and potential world records set on the Kona Coast. These are listed each month in the Hawaii Fishing News. As the last few weeks of 1982 brings the year’s fishing records to a close, we have two more potential world records in Kona to report. On Nov. 6 Dean Miller of Incline Village, Nevada, caught a 32½-lb. shortbill spearfish on 16-lb. test line. On Nov. 11 his…

24-KT Jackpot Tournament March 18 & 19………………..Phone (808) 329-1081 Sauza Senoritas Jackpot Fishing Tournament April 30 & May 1………………Phone (808) 949-4622 Kona A‘Lure Hawaiian Wahine Fishing Tournament May 1………………….Phone (808) 322-3339 Golden Goddess Jackpot Tournament May 9 & 10………………..Phone (808) 322-3832 Kona Gold Jackpot May 13 thru 15………………….Phone (808) 322-383;; Pokai Bay Bonanza Jackpot May 18 thru 20………………….Phone (808) 696-7264 Wee Guvs ’83 May 20 & 21………………….Phone (808) 322-9371 Marlin International Open June 13 thru 19…………………..Phone (904) 434-5571 Haleiwa Hanapaa Jackpot June 23 thru 25…………………..Phone (808) 637 1180 Kona Ahi Tournament July 9 thru 19……………………Phone (808) 322-3832 Hawaiian International Allison Tuna Tournament July 18 thru 22……………………Phone (808) 548-4992 Kona Hawaiian Billfish Tournament July 29 thru August 5……………………..Phone (808) 922-9708 Hawaiian International Billfish Tournament August 5 thru 14………………..Phone (808) 922-9708 Honolulu…

■ In November 1982 the Second Big Island Fishing Boat Forum was held at the Hotel King Kamehameha. Conducted over a 24-hour period, the Forum touched on many topics of concern to fishermen on the Big Island. Information gathered from a number of speakers representing different areas of the industry promises to make 1983 a more profitable year. Pete Hendricks of the University of Hawaii Sea Grant Advisory Service co-ordinated proceedings which were under way by 4 p.m. on November 5. A number of exhibitors displayed commercial fishing gear and products, including some of the newest in color depth sounders. Early arrivals found local seafood products available for sampling. Mark Reed brought “Shark Bites,” a new tidbit from Garden Island Seafoods on O‘ahu. Ginger Lianas, representing Ginger Flower Enterprises, offered…

Recompression Chamber ■ The training program for volunteer inside and outside tenders and administrative coordinator personnel is well under way with four sessions completed to date. The first two sessions were attended by 90 and 80 volunteers, respectively. The training is being conducted at Room T-208, Biomedical Science Building at the end of East-West Road, UH, Manoa Campus. The training is being provided by the UH medical school and includes professional support from the U.S. Navy and the civilian community. Plans are under way to move two experimental recompression chambers within the Look Laboratory, Kewalo Basin, to accommodate the installation of a larger chamber for diver hyperbaric treatment. Diver of the Year Awards Banquet Plans for the annual banquet are firm. It is to be held at the Tripier Hospital…

Enteraining nightly — 9:30 p.m to 12:30 a.m — at the Princess Kaiulani ■ A new fishing net after completion was immersed in kukui bark for dyeing a brownish-red color and hung up until dried. Before using the net, a feast was prepared for it. Foods consisting of pig, dog, fowl, sugarcane, sweet potatoes, bananas and taro were prepared in the imu, while ‘awa was chewed for drinking. Prayers were made to the fishing ‘aumakua (gods), Ku‘ula, Hinahele, Kanemakua, Hina, Kinilau, Kaneko‘a. Bag nets. The Hawaiian bag nets (papa) were of many sizes and used for many different purposes. Here are some of the names (given to me by one source not bag nets used by Hawaiians: papalau lele, lau’apo, wahanui, ho’olewalewa, melomelo, papa ‘aumaiewa, papa lu’u maomao, papa lu’lu…

Author Modern Hawaiian Gamefishing Board of Governors Hawaiian International Billfish Association ■ Playing favorites, that’s what fishing is all about, whether you are playing your favorite gamefish on the end of your line or playing that popular parlor (or barroom?) game: “What’s your favorite tish?” Right from the earliest days when the first ancient angler discovered that a trout looked different, fought different and tasted different from a sunfish, fishermen have formed ranks to debate the virtues of the different sport fish. In November, as a lead-in to our Young Angler column, we asked the question, “What is your favorite fish?” with no intention than to interest our readers in some techniques for Catching papio, instead, we stimulated some hot debates. Therefore, let us examine the question further, savoring the…

JANUARY The year begins with Hawai‘i’s only year-long tournament, the Hawaii Big Gaine Fishing Club Four Flags Tournament. The ongoing event offers prizes at the end of the year for each of the four “flag fish” (mahimahi, ono, ahi and marlin) caught in each of five tackle categories (20-, 30-, 50-, 80- and 130-lb. test). Anglers must tr HBGFC member, and the fish must he caught outside of any regularly scheduled fishing tournament to qualify for the event. All entries must be caught between Jan. 1 and Nov 30. 1983. Prizes are awarded at the HBGFC Annual Banquet FEBRUARY The first long weekend of 1983 is the President’s Day Weekend. which marks the date of the HBGFC President’s Day Tournament. Held or. Feb 12 14. the tournament is open to…

■ Last month I mentioned some of the probable changes in the 1983 Hawai‘i tournament calendar and if you have perused our 1983 edition of the popular Hawaii Fishing News Tournament Calendar, you have probably already caught some of those changes. The biggest event listed in the 1983 Calendar is the million-dollar jackpot tournament being proposed by the Marlin International Association. The $12,000 per four-man team entry fee (which includes hotel room, charter boat and all fees) is a big one, but take a look at the money prizes the tournament promises!First prize is $250,000; second place is $100,000; third is $50,000; fourth is $25,000; and there’s lots more!The guys at Marlin International plan to make this a real first-class tournament in every way and hope to attract some of…

“High-tech,” or high technology, has brought with it some revolutionary advances in the construction of fishing rods. To many fishermen these advances are difficult to understand, and translating these advances into practical terms (like, “What can these new materials do for me?) can often be a real problem. ■ Probably the most difficult decision any angler will make when shopping for new tackle is whether or not to buy one of the new advanced fiber-composite rods, more specifically, those made of graphite and/or boron. The price tag on these space-age rods may easily make the decision for you, but even if you are prepared to pay the price, you are still likely to question whether or not the new rods will give you improved performance for your extra dollars. In…

Catch Report (S) = striped (B) = Black…

■ My birthday this year was one to remember. We had a hurricane that day. I certainly didn’t expect to spend that evening with a houseful of refugees, cringing in fear, waiting for our roof to blow off! Hurricane Iwa (pronounced ‘ee-va’ and named for the fierce frigate bird) passed over our islands with tremendous winds and high tidal waves estimated at above 50 feet in many areas. It was amazing that there were not more lives lost. At least we had plenty of warning and excellent repeated advice over the radios. Two of our fishermen from Wai‘anae were caught out at sea that morning of the storm. Willie Burt and Marbin “Bear” Reed were bottom fishing off of Ka‘ena Point on the LIKEPU TOO the night before the winds…

■ In the last several issues Keli’i has recounted many fascinating stories about sharks in Hawaiian, history. Indeed, our shark myths rival the best of Greek legends. Sharks have been portrayed as both friend and foe to man in Hawaiian mythology, but, unforturnately, most people today only visualize sharks in a negative, predator or attacker role. This is too bad, since sharks are truly amazing animals deserving far more respect than generally given. They certainly do not deserve the image depicted in “Jams” and other such movies, for they really are not evil-toothed, eating machines just waiting for the opportunity to seize some hapless human who ventures in the water for a swim. In general, shark attacks on humans are very rare events, and this is especially so in the…

■ STOP! Before you take your underwater Nikonos camera into the water, is the sync plug cover screwed in? Ah, ha! Caught a few, though most of you had it in. Now, can you remove it? Looks like it’s time to check the camera and clean it up. Generally, the greatest problem with Nikonos cameras is with the amount of grease all over the camera. Clean it up! Clean the outside and the inside (especially the film guides, pressure plate and the lens). Clean the ‘O’ ring grooves and check all fixed and removable ‘O’ rings for cracks, splits, pits and loss of elasticity. Clean the ‘O’ rings, or, better yet, replace them. The rings should be greased lightly. Far too often the ‘O’ rings and the camera are swimming…