Innholdsfortegnelse for August 1988 i Hawaii Fishing News

■ EOJOY SUMNER IN HAWAI’I WATERS. AUGUST IS THE WARMEST MONTH OVER LAND AND IN THE WATER. NO KONA STORMS OR COLD FRONTS ARE EXPECTED. REPLACING THESE TWO WINTERTIME STORMS COULD BE STORMS BORN OVER THE WARM TROPICAL WATERS—TROPICAL STORMS AND HURRICANES AUGUST IS THE FAVORED MONTH FOR THESE STORMS. OVER THE PASR NEARS, THESE STORMS APPEARED IN HAWAI’I WATERS SO IT WILL BE PRUDENTTOUSTEN TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARINE FORECASTS BEFORE VENTURING INTO THE WATER. WEATHER SATELLITE PICTURES SPOT THESE STORMS. TRADE WINDS WILL BE THE COMMON FEATURE AS THEM PERSIST THROUGH THE MONTH. EXPECT ABOUT FIVE TO 10 DAYS OF GUSTY TTADE WINDS THAT CAN MAKE THE WATERS TOO ROUGH. NORTHWEST SWELL AND SURF ACTIVITY IS AT THE MINIMUM. BUT SOUTHERLY SURF GOLD BE HIGHER THAN NORMAL…

International Game Fish Association3000 East Las Olas Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33316 U.S.A.Phone (305) 467-0161/Cable IGFA. July 14, 1988 Mr. Peter Dunn-Rankin517 Kawaihae StreetHonolulu, HI 96825 Dear Mr. Dunn-Rankin: Enclosed is the xerox copy of the photos of the 96-lb bluefin trevally that you requested. Also enclosed are some copies of articles from books that will further explain how we made our identification. Best wishes and good fishing! Sincerely,Gerry CarrDirector of Species ResearchInternational Game Fish Association July 20, 1988 Mr. Gerry CarrInternational Game Fish Association3000 East Las Olas BoulevardFort Lauderdale, Florida 33316 Dear Mr. Carr: Thank you for your prompt response to my request for your information on the classification of the bluefin trevally (Caranx Melampygus). After viewing your pictures and data I am more convinced than before that Dr.…

■ A 205½-lb ‘ahi and a 456-lb marlin won first prize in the 10th Annual Kona Ahi/Marlin Tournament the weekend of July 9 and 10. A total of 69 teams participated in the event sponsored by Western Sports Tournaments, 31 in the ‘Ahi Division and 38 in the Marlin Division. Rex Crosland of Park City, Utah boated the first place ‘ahi fishing aboard the PACIFIC BLUE skippered by Bill Casey. Crosland, who owns the boat, came to Kona specifically to fish in the tourney. Crosland and PACIFIC BLUE won $2,480 cash prize money for the fish. The top prize was Crosland’s first tournament win, although he has placed in other tournaments several times, including the Big Island Invitational Tournament in April. A semi-retired owner of a construction and land development…

■ “I just get these feelings, and they are usually right,” said Louise Ann “Angel” Bowles after she weighed in a 950½-lb Pacific blue marlin taken on 80-lb line, smashing two previous world records. “I just knew I would get this big fish, I just felt it so strongly!” As she tells the story, you can believe that it was destiny that this 5’ 3” 108-lb woman would cross paths with this great fish the day after her 51st birthday, and top the women’s all-tackle and 80-lb test Pacific blue marlin records by several hundred pounds in the process. It was a fish that Angel Bowles had prepared for over many years. Recently, though, she had specifically targeted a fish of 900 lbs on 80-lb test. Bowles has a lifetime…

■ The artist M. C. Escher made a career out of drawing impossible scenes. Escher is known for elaborate staircases winding downwards through the picture until they end up right where they started. His are the metamorphosis panels in which a flight of birds gradually changes into a school of fish. Escher’s interesting impossibilities came to mind as I saw a magazine illustration depicting an impossible use of tag lines for lure trolling—except this artist didn’t know his sketch was somewhere in Escher’s twilight zone. At the same time the picture appeared, I was gathering advice for Capt. Paul Suarez of Marathon, Florida, who had written to describe some problems he was having trolling lures with taglines and ask how he might correct them. Let’s look at Capt. Suarez’s concerns…

■ In the distance a dog howled a long and lonely call, and Tony Diana woke slowly from his restless sleep. For a moment Tony lay there, looking at the dark ceiling. “Was it all a dream?” he asked himself, still caught between the transition from sleep to reality. The glowing digital numbers on the radio clock on the dresser showed 5:30 a.m. He took a deep breath and rolled over on his left side. Blistering stabs of pain ripped through his arms and the small of his back. Rigid as a robot, Tony sat up on the edge of the bed. He looked out his bedroom window as a breeze rustled the guava trees outside. The sky was slowly graying. Morning was not far off. As he rubbed his…

■ Early Tuesday evening, June 14, 1988, a sort of quiet confidence prevailed among the participants that met for the mandatory meeting of team captains before the start of the 1988 tournament. The past successes of the 150th Aircraft Control and Warning (AC&W) Squadron’s Annual Goodwill ‘Ahi Tournament justified their enthusiasm. The Nawiliwili Small Boat Harbor, just south of Lihue, was the desired launch site, but marginal sea conditions forced a change to the Port Allen Small Boat Harbor for the entire tournament. Daily fishing from June 15 to 17 was set from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. General Chairman Lester Matsushima, with untiring assistance from Napua Sugai, again deserves the majority of credit for the success of this Hawaii. Air Guard event. Tournament activities revolve around the goals of…

The Players ■ On the second weekend of June I (Russ) decided to take my 14-year-old nephew, Erick Yamanaka, bass fishing. I had taken him once before, but he hadn’t caught any bass. He was much younger then, so I had him use crankbaits and spinnerbaits. I had promised this disappointed lad that on our next trip he was guaranteed to catch a bass. With a doubtful smile, he asked, “Promise?” I answered, “Cross my heart, hope to die, a bassaholic never tells a lie.” Well, a promise is a promise. I thought about this commitment I made to Erick and decided to teach him my favorite and best technique for catching Mr. Bucketmouth. I believed that if I taught him correctly he was bound to catch some bass, and…

■ Inconsistent is the best way to describe this year’s summer ‘ahi run. The action could be hot and furious one day and then cool down to resemble a mid-winter’s fishing day. The ‘ahi “busts” so far this year have been few and far between. The general consensus among fishermen is that the ‘ahi are still out there, probably feeding down deep due to a shortage of forage fish near the surface. It seems that in order to catch one of these husky yellowfin tuna, you need to be in the general vicinity when they make their occasional trips to the surface. One lucky father and son team in the right place at the right time was Ernest Morita and his son Scott. They were cruising in their boat the…

Outstanding Fisherman Joseph Cazimero is a slender built, soft-spoken man, with real, grits, consistency and persistence. Accompanying and assisting Joseph during the 13th Hilo Casting Club Tournament were his son-in-law, Matthew Kupuka, and Eric Okamura. Joe’s first strike occurred at 2:15 a.m. the first morning of the tournament, using tako bait on the slide rig technique. He battled his first fish in less time than it took to gaff it. Picture the terrain of a high cliff and below it a reef that protrudes for 30 yards in water 10 feet deep. Then the partial sandy bottom slopes downward at an angle of about 20 degrees to a depth of 40 to 50 feet. That is the place Joe found his fish. On Thursday, Joe picked up four more ulua,…

■ Hana pa a! Hookup at 3,900 feet! Don’t horse it, let it run, let it run! Hell, it’s a damned buoy! Surface, surface, surface. Blow all tanks. All stop!…And with that scenario, Kewalo Basin’s charter boat skippers lost their favorite FAD, the HH-buoy, anchored 18 miles off Pearl Harbor. The Japanese submarine TAKESHIO, participating in RIMPAC naval exercises in Hawaiian waters, reportedly running 650 fathoms (3,900 feet) below the surface, had caught it’s left stern plane in the HH mooring rope. As the sub rode the line up, it became entangled in the 100 feet of chain which connects the buoy to the rope. It was dead in the water. Fortunately, the 75 officers and crewmen aboard the 236‘TAKESHIO were not injured, and the sub itself was none the…

■ At 5 a.m. every day except Sundays and national holidays the Tokyo Central Wholesale Fish Market at Tsukiji unveils the most incredible array of seafood imaginable. As many as 300 different seafood products are neatly arranged by type, category, quality, grade, preservation method, wholesaler, consumer demand and order of sale. The market is alive with activity at 5 a.m., and becomes chaotic by 5:20, when the auction begins. By 7 a.m. most of the estimated 63,000 people who enter the Tsukiji Market each day will be somewhere in the vast waterfront facility (over 2 million square feet, about the size of Ala Moana Shopping Center). By noon some 2,750 tons of seafood will have changed hands, including more than half of the tuna traded in the nine largest seafood…

■ The Coral Ballroom of the Hilton Hawaiian Village was the setting for a gala fundraiser benefitting the Pacific Gamefish Research Foundation (PGRF). The $125 per person affair was held in Honolulu so that more than 500 of resort developer Chris Hemmeter’s friends could easily gather to honor him as the Big Island’s Man of the Year. The dinner was preceded by cocktails and Hawaiian musice by KIKA, which gave my tablemate Carla King and I an opportunity to meet some of the notables from the worlds of finance and politics that were in attendance, including John Bellinger (First Hawaiian Bank), Walter Dods (Bank of Hawaii), Representative Barbara Marumoto (Wai’alae-Maunalani District), Roger Ulveling (Director of the Department of Business and Economic Development), Mary Bitterman (candidate for Congress), and the evening’s…

Third 100-Plus Ulua ■ On May 26 Chad Alejandro took in a 24-lb ulua at his favorite fishing spot as Jennifer Notley and Cavin Fall looked on. The next day Chad’s parents, Albert and Elizabeth, arrived with family friend Albert Tabango so Chad, Jennifer and Cavin went home and left the camp set up for them. Albert A. cast three half bamboo and half fiberglass poles using puhi bait on two of them. One and a half hours later Albert had a strike. On his Newell reel with 80-lb Maxima line and a size 50 Tankichi hook, Albert quickly brought in the fish, which weighed 16 lbs. Two strikes and some broken line later, he decided to get some sleep. Just before noon Saturday, George Sakoda, Dianna Arruda, and daughter…