■ This story is for all you guys out there that fish for ulua from the shoreline. You try for weeks, months and years, but the results are always the same: a big zero, nadda, a whitewash, bolohead. After a while, you begin to think about giving up ulua fishing and selling your huge collection of ulua fishing equipment. You remember all those times fishing in harsh conditions-thunderstorms, high-surf warnings and gale-force winds. Sometimes you think to yourself, maybe I should have stayed home.
For one fisherman, after 36 years of his ulua fishing routine, the dreaming, hoping and a whole lot of whitewash trips finally paid off. On November 17, 2006, at 3 p.m., my brother in law Rodney Higashi was blessed with his first white ulua.
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