Innholdsfortegnelse for November 1987 i Hawaii Fishing News

■ “We haven’t heard anything lately. What’s happening with the seabed mining issue?” came the anxious call. “It appears that no news may be good news,” was my prompt reply. Many Hawai’i residents have lobbied their elected officials about the fact that the issue of ocean mining had little public airing in Hawai’i. Despite that, the Department of the Interior (DOI) was in the process of leasing access to 6.6 million acres of ocean bottom off Hawai’i to strip mining prospectors. That public outcry resulted in the Hawai’i County Council passing (on a vote of 8 to 1) Councilman Jim Dahlberg’s resolution which asked the DOI to re-open the public comment period on the ocean mining Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) and impose a one-year moratorium on the proposed ocean…

■ There were plenty of things going on recently, including some changes. As you probably know, Melanie Winters had to leave Hawai’i and Aqualine for the West Coast. I am Sandra Spagnuolo, and I’m the new editor of Aqualine. I hope you’ll enjoy this column on diving and send in any suggestions you may have. This is your column, so please let me know if there is anything you want to hear about. This month I’d like to talk about two things that are important to me as a Hawai’i diver: safety and the condition of our dive sites. It’s happened to all of us—you’re enjoying a beautiful dive when you come across a soda can or a plastic bag in the water. Litter. It’s ugly and it can be…

■ Chris Watanabe was the first to see Eric Masuda’s bent rod. The fisherman was holding the 11-foot pole high and the line was tight. Chris stopped the F150 Ford four-wheeler at the top of the hill, and Richard Murakami and I jumped out. We looked down from the cliff and saw the hooked ulua moving back and forth in the shallows. I quickly got the 30-mch Sea Horse hand gaff out of the Gott cooler. HFN writer Jeff Konn had given the gaff to me at Christmas, saying that it might come in handy one day. I scrambled and slid down the bank into the water. The fish was moving northwest along the edge of the black lava boulders. Just before the guy wires holding up a telephone pole…

■ Each year the Propeller Club of the United States sponsors an essay contest to generate interest in the American Merchant Marine and the maritime industry. This contest is open to all high school students grades 10 through 12. The theme for the contest this year is “America’s Maritime Industry---the Heartbeat of Commerce and World Trade.” The contest offers high school students a challenge and an opportunity to conduct research on American foreign commerce and that portion carried in ships of the American Merchant Marine on the oceans, rivers and Great Lakes. The contest also rewards the winnei s with prizes that include voyages on board American ships, both ocean-going and inland. American steamship companies, inland waterway barge companies and Great Lake companies contribute passenger space on their vessels as…

■ Christmas Island is justifiably famous for the presence of hordes of big ulua, and with that in mind, Jeanette Foster and I gear up for that destination once a year, with the possibility of a world record at stake. Jeanette has submitted world record claims after every trip she’s made to the fabled lagoon. Her catches include a 9-lb 3-oz papio she landed on 4-lb test line while fishing off the beach near Paris point. That world record even tops the men’s record for the 4-lb line class! In July, when we returned to Christmas, Jeanette was after a fish on 16-lb test to avenge the shark bite that disqualified a 34-lb ulua she took on 16-lb line at Fanning Island last year. She also wanted a good fish…

Dear Chuck, This is a picture of my best friend, Chris Dolan, with this remarkable catch, a 107½-lb white ulua he caught off Wai‘alae-Kahala while free-diving with friends in 50 feet of water. He was using a Dacor Stingray spear gun with a Hama custom spear shaft. He caught the monster in a cave. We had ulua steaks for the next month. The dive was one of our unique dusk dives. We started in the water at 5 o’clock and got out at dark, around 7 p.m.! Truly, B.Y. Aquanauts Scuba Club Honolulu, O‘ahu Dear Chuck, This is the picture of our biggest catch thus far for 1987. It is a kaku, the great barracuda. I got her off Makaha, off the area near the end of the road. She…

■ Many people on the Windward Coast are concerned about the unusually poor fishing that has occurred recently. The dreaded El Nino effect that is occurring in our Pacific region, which explained our extremely hot weather, has to be a partial cause of this slow period. Whatever the reason, there were still some bright spots where the FAD system was very productive for small shibi-ko and aku. Fishing in other areas have produced good catches, especially octopus and papio in Kane‘ohe Bay, while hot weather conditions have made the Kane‘ohe sandbar a popular recreation area. Retirees like Wally Ching and Merv Lee Kwai enjoy their days fishing on Wally’s 16’ flat-bottomed boat, catching small bottom fish and trolling the ledges of Mokumanu Island. The bonus catch of the day for…

■ September was a slow month for fishing in Lahaina ’ Town. There were only seven blue marlin and one striper caught during the entire month, and very little mahi and ono action was reported. The water temperature was running in the high 80s throughout the month. The top marlin for the month, 471 lbs, was captured! aboard the HINATEA with Capt. Doug Barna and Co’ capt. Rich Newcomb. The boys picked up this marlin for angler Bill Holt while fishing off Kaumalapau, Lana‘i, with a lure and 130-lb test line. Bill was the lucky angler who; two years ago landed triple double-blues while fishing i aboard the HINATEA with his wife, Carol. The FINEST KIND landed the second largest marlin during the month, a 360-pounder taken by angler Donald…

■ The 78th Annual Hawaii Big Game Fishing Club Awards banquet is scheduled November 7, 1987, in Kona, at the Old Kona Airport Park Pavillion. The theme is Western barbeque, and the food and entertainment will take you back to the days of the paniolo. Call Red or Janet Butler for details if you have not bought your tickets yet (phone 325-5132). Then, head ’em up, move ’em out to Kona for the club’s once-a-year awards bash. HBGFC to Australia At this point, the club will field 17 teams at the Australian Bi-Centennial Tournament in Sydney next April. Tour prices are very reasonable and the Sydney Game Fishing Club is providing boats free of charge to HBGFC members. Interested? Call our club president for details. Labor Day Tournament Largest fish…

■ One man has taken more money in fishing Hawaii tournaments than any other. That man is Australian John Austin. As of late September 1987, Austin had won better than $340,000 in Hawaii jackpot fishing tournaments! The Sydney-based stockbroker locked up the title of all-time top money winner when he took the largest fish in the Golden Marlin Tournament for the third time. “It’s the first tournament that one angler and two brothers have ever won three out of five times,” the active Aussie angler noted quietly after his latest win. John Austin has captured Hawaii’s biggest money event in three of its five incarnations and has done it each time by fishing with either Tioni Judd or his younger brother Jerome Judd. Austin’s first win came in the first…

SEND A PHOTO AND LETTER ABOUT YOUR CATCH, AND WE WILL MAIL YOU A FREE GIFT… OUR WAV OF SAVING THANKS FOR SHARING YOUR CATCH!”. SEND TO: P. O. BOX 25413. HONOLULU, HAWAII 96825 Dear Chuck, Look what we caught while dunking at our secret spot in Kane’ohe on July 11, 1987. At 2:15 p.m. on a rising tide, something big hit one of our poles: We were all amazed when my boyfriend, Eric Ebesu, fought and hauled in his first awaawa. It weighed 7 lbs and was 33 inches long. Eric was excited for the rest of the week and couldn’t stop talking about the way the fish had repeatedly jumped out of the water. At 2:15 p.m., peak tide, we had another strike. This time, I got my…

■ 1. Big Island firefighter Del Dykes is an enthusiastic fisherman who is always looking for a better way to do some aspect of his sport. A change in one fire department procedure interested him because he saw an immediate application to a knotty fishing problem. The fire department had always suggested the traditional bowline as the number one choice for forming a loop in the end of a line for jobs like rappelling. Recently, they’ve suggested the figure-of-eight knot. Del decided to take the advice and use the figure-of-eight to make a strong link from leader to lure in situations where you want a loose loop to give the lure some freedom of action. You can, for example, use it to connect your leader to a jig, allowing it…

Commercial License Increase to $1,500? ■ At two different public hearings in Kona, full-time commercial fishermen have made a very unusual suggestion. They have proposed substantial increases in the cost of commercial fishing licenses from their current level of $25 per year to $1,500 or more. Indeed, in such discussions comparison figures of as much as $50,000 have been mentioned. It’s not often that you hear someone ask the government to increase his taxes by 6,000 percent. The purpose of the increase would be to drive part-time commercial fishermen and recreational/commerciai fishermen out of-business by artificially increasing everyone’s operating costs. Proponents feel there would be a second benefit. Driving part-timers out of the business would eliminate the sale of poor quality fish, which the full-timers feel are sold by part-timers…

New ReleaseVolume 2 of the most extensive collection of saltwater fishing tips ever published. The volume is packed with lore not available elsewhere in book form. It describes how to catch game fish of the shoreline and deep seas, and even includes sections on shrimping, crabbing, lobstering and squidding. Volume 2 of FISHING Hawaii Style® is an authoritative guide to advanced successful fishermen of the Central Pacific. Beautifully illustrated by Les Hata, it contains more than 500 detailed drawings that are accurate representations of fish, rigs, tackle and techniques. Les’s drawings show not only his consummate skill as an artist but also his intimate knowledge of fish and fishing. You’ll find comprehensive and detailed descriptions of surfcasting for ulua (slide-baiting and dunking), drifting sand bars for *o‘iio, locating and catching…

■ Look carefully at the photo and see if you can find something out of place. The picture came from an ad agency and commits an error common in advertisements. You might have seen the cigarette ad where the guy is standing next to a sailfish and he’s holding a freshwater bait-casting rod with an oversize spinning reel mounted on it and some monstrous trout fiy attached. The ad director just threw together a jumble of assorted tackle to have in the picture with the fish to catch attention and maybe sell some cigarettes or sunburn preparation, etc., without regard to the anomalous situation created. The problem in this picture is a bit more subtle. The scene is definitely a freshwater environment—a rooftop johnboat with tiny 4 horsepower motor, floating…

Kailua-Kona Catch Report Due to the limited space available and the large number of fish caught, catch reports are limited to tuna over 100 lbs and billfish of any size, any species. (S) = Striped marlin, (B) = and (T) = Tag and release, weight estimated.…

Honokohau Catch Report Due to the limited space available and the large number of fish caught, catch reports are limited to tuna over 100 lbs and billfish of any size, any species. (S) = Striped marlin, (B) = Black marlin and (T) = Tag and release, weight estimated.…

■ I’ve said this before, and I’m repeating it because I believe it so strongly, especially when I’m in the kitchen. Hawaii’s greatest asset is the blend of ethnicities here, and the real bonus is the wonderful food flavors that came with them. When you plan and prepare your dinner, do you ever stop to analyze what nations the foods represent? This month’s column celebrates those nations, their wonderful flavors, and our luck for living in Hawaii Can you tell where each recipe might have originated? (The first one is easy!) Mozzarella and Tomato Appetizer ½ pound ball mozzarella cheese 6 to 8 slices ripe tomato 12 to 16 anchovy fillets 3 teaspoons dried oregano, crushed 2 to 4 tablespoons olive oil Fresh ground black pepper PREPARATION Slice the cheese…

Over 400 current IGFA World Records 1310 53rd Street • West Palm Beach, Florida 33407 • 305/842-2474 One of the outstanding Marlin catches in the history of angling took place off Kona, Hawaii, June 25,1987…Kelley Everette set a new IGFA World Record with a 1,103½ lb. Pacific Blue Marlin on 30 lb. Tournament Ande…a 36 to 1 World Record. Kelley broke the existing World Record by 477½ lbs. The feat will be listed as an unbelievable 36 to 1 World Record catch. Kelley and his wife, Jocelyn, both outstanding light tackle anglers, usually fish 8 to 12 lb. Ande for Marlin. But on this day Kelley went to 30. The Everettes fish from their beautiful, restored custom 37 ft. Merritt, “Northern Lights.” The fish hit a live 3 lb. Skipjack…