Innholdsfortegnelse for October 1995 i Hawaii Fishing News

■ For Hawai‘i waters, summer is over and winter is approaching October may preview the upcoming winter’s weather. There will be a greater variety of weather, but the severity of bad weather has not reached its potential. The following are potentially bad weather events, listed in order of decreasing expected occurrence: (1) northwest swell and surf (2) gusty trade winds (3) weak cold front (4) Kona low (5) north swell and surf (6) hurricane. Other than the northwest swell and surf, the expected frequencies of the other events are low. The frequency of trade winds is going down, but trades will still be the most common winds. The number of gusty trade wind days should be low-about four days. Northwest surf picks up while southerly surf is down at Sunset…

Dear Chuck, Brad and Gordon, Hi guys! It’s windy and raining here in Alaska. Send us some sunshine! We are getting some big fish now. Capt. Chuck Moon pulled up another “toad” last week. Owen Ogawa, 18-years-old, boated a 183-pounder. Sorry, Brad! Too bad you couldn’t be there to blast it with the bangstick. I’m sending you a photo of two king salmon I caught the day after you guys left. Kind of a neat story behind it. I was jigging for herring at the time. A herring jig consists of six very tiny gold hooks with bright beads above them. A 2-oz sinker keeps the 10-lb test line straight down. I’d only jigged twice when I hooked what was definitely not a herring! After about 10 minutes of line…

■ During the last weekend of August, the Kolohe Kasting Klub and the Hui O Ulua Shorecasters challenged each other at their second annual joint club outing. At last year’s challenge, the Hui captured the perpetual trophy; but this year, the tables turned and Kolohe came out on top, winning the honor of holding the trophy for the year. The really big fish seemed to stay away, but the Kolohe boys landed a couple of white ulua that gave them some good poundage. Kolohe member Mike lkegami took top honors for the outing with a 12.1-lb white ulua. As Mike pulled the ulua from his bag, I noticed there was a lot of sand and that the fish had a nice white and silvery color, so I figured it was…

■ “Cuts to the left of me, cuts to the right of me, and who or what is going to be cut next?” seems to be the battle cry of many of Hawai‘i’s state workers and departments. Who’s making these cuts and what rationale they’re using to justify some of these reductions in an already overburdened work force leaves a lot to one’s imagination. When it comes to cuts to the Division of Aquatic Resources (DAR), whoever is making the division cut spending and/or jobs hasn’t given the department heads much flexibility, nor have they left any room for negotiation. Thus, jobs and programs that are essential to the viability of our ocean resources and the livelihoods of those who utilize these resources for commerce, recreation or subsistence may be…

July 18th, 1995 Dear Capt. Gaffney, Thank you for your letters expressing your concerns regarding the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary. I would like to take this opportunity to respond to your concerns as well as to state my position on the sanctuary process. As you know, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) Sanctuaries and Reserves Division (SRD) is currently developing a draft environmental impact statement/management plan (EIS/MP) for the sanctuary, which should be available for public review in early summer. The three most controversial issues regarding the sanctuary thus far have been the possibility of new regulations, of new permits, and of user fees. Many people who oppose the sanctuary do so because there has been much misunderstanding of these issues. The following bullets clarify how…

Dear Chuck, The following is the decision of the judge from small claims court regarding the lawsuit that LIL AUDREY placed against us. I would appreciate your publishing this in HAWAII FISHING NEWS; so many letters were placed in there against us, and our attorney drafted this reply for publication. Thank you, Peggy Barron-Nelsen Commodore, Hawaii Yacht Club ■ On August 22, 1995, the state of Hawai‘i’s District Court of the First Circuit received testimony and evidence regarding the disqualification of the fish caught by Alan Yuen and the anglers and crew of the LIL AUDREY during the April 1995 Senoritas Tournament hosted by the Hawaii Yacht Club. The court affirmed and upheld the disqualification of Mr. Yuen. The disqualification of the LIL AUDREY’S catch originally came after protest was…

Hilo Trollers Tournament Results ■ Thirty-five teams participated in the Hilo Trollers August Tournament held on August 6. The weather report for that day indicated there would be mostly cloudy skies with occasional showers and trade winds blowing 15 to 25 mph. The sea was slightly choppy due to the strong trade winds. Slightly choppy seas didn’t stop the 35 die-hard entrants. Leaving the harbor at 5:30 a.m., the participating teams headed in all directions to look for the big boys. One of the highlights of the tournament occurred when Capt. Alvin Kobayashi and angler Sharon Sakamoto on the PUNOHU’ULA hooked up to a Pacific blue marlin. After some good, solid hard work, they landed the marlin that later weighed in at 350½ lbs. On the TIFFY-SY, Capt. Wendell Miyazu…

Dear Chuck, I am writing to ask for your assistance with Na Maka’ala Volunteer Coastal Monitoring Program here on Maui. The program is made up of community members who have volunteered to document and monitor ocean water quality conditions along Maui’s coastline. The purpose of the program is to develop a broad base of monitoring data, which will be used to protect and enhance nearshore water quality. The community recognizes that marine recreational, fishing, diving and ecological values depend on high water quality along our coastlines. The program is sponsored in part by the Hawai‘i Department of Health and the National Marine Sanctuary Program. You are probably aware that in the past five to seven years much of Maui’s coastline has been plagued by very large blooms of marine algae,…

■ Guy Nakamoto hardly ever came home from shorecasting whitewashed. Guy was a prolific caster, and he always had a head full of ideas on how to catch any kind of fish. Guy has since moved on to bigger and better things and is doing quite well catching monster fish off his Alii Kai. I can readily brag that when I’ve gone out with him, we’ve never come back skunked. Unreal! Guy and I found out that the whole trick to shorecasting is to constantly pump out new baits. Anyone knows that without baits there aren’t going to be any strikes. Tons of small game can work on your bait, usually stripping the hook clean within a matter of minutes. Lobster, mantis shrimp, sea worms, crabs and small fish all…

■ It started as an idea to bring divers together for a day of fun, camaraderie and, to make it a little interesting, friendly competition. Twelve divers showed up and participated. We dove for three hours starting at 9 a.m. There were no boundaries, but divers had to enter and exit the water in front of our home, located right on the beach. The whole neighborhood got involved. On August 19, 1995, approximately 100 divers representing all of the Hawaiian islands hit the waters off the North Shore of O’ahu for the 10th anniversary of the North Shore Spearfishers Classic. The boundaries for this year’s event were from Hale’iwa’s Pua’ena Point to Sunset Beach. This five-hour dive started at 9 a.m. Failure to register either at the start or finish…

Ano’ai me ke aloha! Pehea ko ‘oukou kau wela i keia makahiki? Loa’a hou i’au ka makau laholio. Aue no ho’i, e! Eia, e ola mau i na lala o ka Hui o Mai’a! He mo’olelo keia e pili ana i wahi pana o Ka Lae o Kupikipiki’o. ■ ‘Greetings! How was your summer? As for me, again, I think I have a rubber hook. Shucks! Anyway, long live the members of the Banana Club! This month’s story is about the “Point of Raging Sea,” or Black Point. Black Point is the southernmost tip of O’ahu and located, in the Kahala District. First, an overview of the month seems appropriate to start this story. The month of October in Hawai‘i was known as ho’oilo (wet or rainy season). For fishermen,…

■ Somehow, we’ve got to drag some common sense into the arguments for and against the establishment of the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary. The primary reason for the frustration of the Hawai‘i ocean users with the sanctuary is that throughout the many public meetings over many months, the Sanctuary Management Plan (MP) and Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) drafts were practically nonexistent. Your speakers never had a document they could refer to for answers. All they ever said was that there would be a joint federal/state working group with representatives from all interested groups that would assure unbiased deliberations, decisions and other variations of that idea. All the fishermen’s concerns over new regulations, changes, etc., that might be brought on by the sanctuary went unanswered. Soon, a high-level…

■ The Draft Environmental Impact Statement/Management Plan (DEIS/MP) for the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary should be available to the public when you receive the October issue of HAWAII FISHING NEWS. The release of the DEIS/MP signals a new round of public meetings and, eventually, formal public hearings on the sanctuary. Now is the time to learn all you can about the issues, participate in the public process and let Gov. Cayetano know how you feel about the sanctuary. A growing number of recreational and commercial fishermen, ocean recreation businesses, boaters, interisland shipping companies, tour operators and Hawaiian organizations have concluded that the whale sanctuary will inevitably prove to be costly for the majority of the ocean users of the island of Hawai‘i, and that it is not…

■ The Garden Isle provided its anglers with some tricky fishing conditions during the month of August. Gusty trade winds in the 20- to 30-mph range kept the crowds down, and the fishing seemed a bit spotty with only occasional reports of big marlin and ‘ahi surfacing. Many fishermen reported chasing large and promising bird piles containing small aku and kawakawa, which refused to bite even the smallest of lures run far back off their transoms. All too often even the larger fish seen splashing around in these piles refused most offerings. The saving grace was a fairly consistent ono bite, and even mahimahi seemed to be showing up fairly regularly. One of the fishermen who reported a good month was Capt. Bill “Wild Bill” Lawrence. Bill is a very…

■ After the excellent bite of July, the billfish totals returned to average. Out of the 48 billfish hooked during August, 31 were blue marlin, nine were striped marlin and four spearfish were brought to the scales. Another four billfish were tagged and released. Four ‘ahi weighing over 100 lbs each were captured. The 25th Annual Lanai Rendezvous attracted 45 boats and 150 anglers to the two-day event. The teams began fishing from any point within Maui County waters at 12:01 a.m. Friday, and the weigh-in was held until 4 p.m. on Saturday. The banquet was held Saturday evening at Manele Harbor and was attended by over 200 people. The tournament was sponsored by the Ma’alaea Boat and Fishing Club. The largest fish and first-place marlin weighed 265 lbs. It…

■ Barracuda and papio love to eat ‘oama (baby goatfish), and sometimes it doesn’t really matter whether they are dead or alive. My preference is to use live, frisky ‘oama, but that’s not always possible; keeping them alive can be a real chore, especially if getting an aerator pump and clean salt water is a problem for you. On my last trip to Kaua’i. I did some light-tackle fishing with Sean Chun, Cory Nakamura and his friend Gallan Gokan in Nawiliwili Bay. We had several Ziploc sandwich bags full of freshly caught ‘oama, and we decided to give them a try on the barracuda that prowl the shoreline area. After we’d launched a 14-foot Boston Whaler, we puttered out and set our gear. The afternoon before, at Lihue Fishing Supply,…

■ This summer I spent a month in Palau, and the diving was killer. These pictures are of a camping trip that I went on with my Uncle Francis Toribiong, the owner and operator of Fish’n Fins and The Marina Hotel, and about 30 other friends. We left early Friday morning in five boats heading for Kayangel, the northernmost group of islands in Palau. Because Kayangel is outside the barrier reef that surrounds Palau, a lot of pelagic fish like to cruise right offshore. I couldn’t wait. It took about three hours to get to Kayangel with some occasional stops to pull in some aku. When we finally got there, we unloaded and got ready to go fishing. One boat was going out trolling, and another was going diving. I…

Dear Mr. Johnston, Recently, I moved to Maui after 20 years of visiting the islands. I have spent — the same 20 years fishing and hunting all over Baja California, Mexico. What has precipitated this letter are the similarities I see between here and Mexico. Specifically, three observations concern me: 1) shoreline fishing and netting has killed off most game and many nongame fish; 2) there is no focus on catch and release, only on how many and how big; 3) tremendous trash (litter) from fishermen on the shoreline and on the ocean bottom. Your newspaper has wonderful articles regarding cooking, fishing techniques and ecological issues (Rick Gaffney). However, would it not be prudent to teach all of us things like 1) game management (i.e. catch and release); 2) lure…

Hey, Chuck! Here’s a picture of my best catch yet, a 96½-lb ulua! I caught it on July 2 at a secret spot on the Big Island. It was a clear night (a couple of nights after the new moon). At about 3 a.m., my girlfriend and I were just kicking back and talking story, ready to fail asleep, when all of a sudden we heard my bell ringing. We both got up and ran to my pole, but [the ringing had] stopped. We stood there for a minute or so, and I thought to myself, “Must be an eel again.” As that thought ran through my mind, the bell rang again. This time the reel started screaming, and I mean screaming! I grabbed my pole. In no time at…

■ The first proposal for a humpback whale national marine sanctuary came from Canadian whale researcher James Hudnall in the mid-’70s. After a thorough review, the select Maui County Committee on the Whale Reserve decided the possible benefits of such a sanctuary were overweighed by the impacts it would likely incur on Maui’s ocean users and ocean industries, and we recommended that the county oppose the imposition of the sanctuary, which it did, along with thousands of local fishermen. A humpback whale national marine sanctuary has actually been proposed twice previously in Hawai‘i. Those proposals were either withdrawn by the Sanctuaries and Reserves Division or vetoed (by then Gov. George Ariyoshi) due to strong public opposition to the sanctuary, particularly the fishing community. The present humpback whale sanctuary was Congressionally…

■ On Saturday, September 3, 1995, the Hawaii Kai Yacht Club hosted the 11th Annual Aloha Jackpot Fishing Tournament. There were 26 entries, and the tournament was enjoyed by all. Congratulations go to the captains and crews of the KUUIPO, CHUPU, AKUBONE and the BLUE DIAMOND. In 1983, at the first jackpot, there were nine boats entered and two fish were caught: a 35-lb spearfish; and a 12½-lb ‘ahi. This year, the first prize fish was a beautiful 466-lb Pacific blue marlin caught from aboard the KUUIPO. The angler was Capt. Mits Nakamura, who was assisted by the proud owner of the KUUIPO, Sadeo Kishino, and other anglers Wayne Watanabe, Dennis Costa and Duane Fukimoto. Capt. Mits said it took four attempts to gaff the big blue because it was…

■ Yet another beautiful summer in Kona recently came to an end. This month the fish reports reflected lots of blue marlin catches, a few less yellowfin tuna, some mahimahi, some ono and a few spearfish. The largest fish of the month was caught on August 22 by Elliott Prillig from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Elliott and his beautiful wife were fishing with Capt. Dan Harrigan on Dan’s 33-foot Bayliner, the STARS & STRIKES, with first mate Aaron Estecion. While recuperating from recent surgery, Elliot found himself on a relaxing fishing trip that resulted in a one-hour and 11-minute fight with a 864-lb Kona monster. Great job, Elliot! Don Halsey of Kekaha, Kaua’i, was another satisfied customer of the STARS & STRIKES. He and his dad, Gary Halsey of California, went fishing…

■ Defining Southern cooking isn’t easy because it has borrowed influences from the people who either settled in or traveled through the south ‘way back in history: the British and their African slaves; Spaniards and Germans; the French, of course; and the Chinese. For example, Cajun has been called French cooking with a Southern twist. It’s considered “country” cooking, sort of down-home fare. “Genuine” Cajun cooking features pork, turtle, rabbit, alligator and even squirrel as the protein. Dishes labeled “Creole” are milder in flavor but could be more fattening because butter is the basic fat (instead of oil or rendered fat used in Cajun). It could be defined as “city” cooking, or company fare, using mostly shrimp, oysters, fish, crab and crayfish. It has been recognized as a combination of…