Innholdsfortegnelse for November 2013 i Hawaii Fishing News

Cleaning Octopus Helpful Hint: Freezing helps to tenderize octopus. Cooking Octopus It is important to know that octopus gets more tender the longer it is cooked but if cooked too long, it will get soft and mushy. The larger the octopus the longer it takes. A 2-to 3-pound octopus usually takes about an hour and 15 minutes to an hour and a half. Tip: To clean pot, rub with lemon, let stand and use a scouring pad to clean off stains. Octopus Curry courtesy of the Captain Cook Hotel, Christmas Island The hotel’s octopus is extremely tender because it is skinned and cooked longer than it would be for Quick Octopus Pupu (recipe below right). 1 2-pound cleaned octopus1 each, onion, carrot, celery stalk and green pepper, all cut into…

The Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) continues to monitor nearshore waters for the presence of fishing nets–to ensure they are being properly employed–and to check for abandoned or derelict nets that can cause damage to coral reefs and habitat for fish and other important marine life. Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement (DOCARE) officers on O‘ahu located and retrieved two illegal lay nets in Kane‘ohe Bay this summer that totaled more than 1,200 feet long. With the help of the public, DOCARE officers also removed several derelict net balls comprised of different types of tangled net whose weight can destroy coral reefs as they roll in the waves. “The public can help prevent damage to our coral reefs and waste of marine life in our ocean environment by…

Send to: P.O. Box 25488, Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96825 or e-mail: <fishnews@hawaii.rr.com> Dear Chuck, I and my dad go fishing for two hours in the morning for small game. On August 21, 2013, at 5:30 a.m. a pole went down. It was my 9-foot, 10-inch Ugly Stik. The reel started screaming. The fish took almost all of my line. I had to lock down on the drag. The pole was bent down all the way. I had to walk back and forth to bring in the fish. I brought it in about 50 yards down the beach. It took about 30 minutes. It was an ulua weighing 52 lbs caught on 30-lb test line, BKN #18 hook, ‘oama for bait on a Penn 8500 spinner. I just got lucky. Thanks to…

MISSING FADS HAWAII A- SOUTH PT. HK- HILO TT- KANEWAA PT. UU- AUAU PT. KAUAI AA- PORT ALLEN WK- WAIALUA MAUI FF- PUKAULUA PT. M- HANA BAY 10/15/13 ALL OTHER FADS ON STATION FOR UPDATES OR TO REPORT A MISSING FAD CALL: OAHU 848-2939 KAHO‘OLAWE TROLLING - NOV. 02-03, 23-24 RESTRICTIONS APPLY-243-5889 Hawaii Fishing News (ISSN 0194-65IX) published monthly, Hawaii Fishing News, 6650 Hawaii Kai Drive, Suite 201, Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96825. Periodical postage paid at Honolulu, Hawai‘i. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Hawaii Fishing News, P.O. Box 25488, Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96825. TIDE VARIATIONS FROM HONOLULU TIMES LISTED TO DETERMINE THE TIME OF THE HIGH AND LOW TIDES FOR THE FOLLOWING PLACES, (+) ADD OR (-) SUBTRACT HOURS AND MINUTES FROM HONOLULU TIME LISTED. OAHU ISLAND HIGH LOW HALEIWA, WAIALUA BAY..............-1:02........-2:05…

A Hau‘ula fisherman pled “no contest” on September 26, 2013, to multiple fishing violations in Kane‘ohe District Court and was sentenced to 213 hours of community service work, in lieu of a $1,500 fine, plus one year of probation. Travis K. Fonoimoana, 34, was cited by a Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement (DOCARE) officer on February 2, 2013, on the shoreline in Punalu‘u for violating Hawai‘i Administrative Rules (HAR) 13-75-12.4(a)(2)(B) relating to lay nets, HAR 13-95-10 for ‘o‘io, and HAR 13-95-23(a) for moi. He was found possessing and using four lay nets longer than 125 feet in length and with less than 23⁄4 inches stretched mesh, as well as for taking several ‘o‘io under 14 inches and several moi under 11 inches–those are…

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Ulua, Golden Trevally and Coconut Crabs Queen Lili‘uokalani Park is the largest traditional Japanese garden outside of Japan. Most people enjoy leisurely walks around the Hilo park’s 30 acres of koi ponds, bridges, pagodas, statues and teahouse, but not Don Memmer. He’s often busy whipping a fly rod at Waihonu Pond, catching and releasing the park’s bonefish that flush into the pond from the waters circling Coconut Island. For Don, a seasoned Hawai‘i fishing guide, casting a Lili‘uokalani Park fly is practice for Christmas Island’s gear-busting giant trevally, nicknamed G.T.s, a.k.a. ulua. Don teamed up with Oregon guide Doug Howard to host a Christmas Island trip for Fly Water Travel. Fly Water Travel, based out of Ashland, Oregon, is “a team of fly fishing and travel experts exclusively dedicated to…

An on the water towing company for recreational boaters, anglers and charter operators, Vessel Assist Kona, Hawai‘i, has opened on the Big Island in Kailua-Kona’s Honokohau Harbor. The new company is owned by Capt. Robert Hemsher, who also owns Ocean Eco Tours, a Kona-based dive tour operator, surfing school and whale-watching business. Much like an auto club for boaters, Hemsher’s Vessel Assist Kona offers 24-hour, non-emergency on water assistance service that provides tows back to the harbor, as well as battery jump-starting, fuel drop-off and ungrounding services. Kona is the second Vessel Assist location in Hawai‘i after Vessel Assist O‘ahu opened in 2009. Both are part of BoatUS Towing Services that has 300 locations on the mainland. Vessel Assist offers “unlimited” towing plans for saltwater boaters and anglers for just…

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A Hawaiian Blessing It was Thursday, July 1, at 2:30 p.m. when I got the call from my boss telling me that I had Friday off, which for me was a complete blessing. I had not had a day off in months and had been itching to catch an ‘ahi on my jet-ski. I got off work and headed straight to my favorite fishing store to pick up a few colored skirts that I’d heard the ‘ahi were biting. I started to make phone calls to my usual fishing partners (my girlfriend and my cousin) to see who would be going with me. What do you know? They both had to work. I was not off to a good start, but I wasn’t going to pass up a day of…

Hi Chuck, Another adventure in Hawai‘i’s waters took seven of us on a wonderful four-day kayak camping trip on the northeast side of Moloka‘i. We launched our kayaks on August 15 from beautiful Halawa Valley, just as one of our tropical storms passed south of the islands. As we paddled out of the calm waters in the protected bay, we faced the open-water swells that were 6 to 8 feet and winds of 20-plus knots with sudden gusts. We figured out the trick to kayaking in these conditions was to not look behind you and keep the bow pointed to your target! If you dared to look, all you would see were massive swells with white caps coming at you that would scare the “you know what” out of you!…

Hawai‘i’s “Warships‘ What’s a “gunkan,” and why should you care? If you search the Internet for the word, you will find that it means “warship” in Japanese. If you search past issues of HAWAII FISHING NEWS for information on the Hawaii Ulua Tagging Project, you will see that “gunkan” is a highly useful name for the jack with the scientific name Caranx lugubris. Why C. lugubris might be called a “warship” is up to you to decide. But “gunkan” avoids the confusion with the many common names used here for the species, which include black trevally, green trevally, black ulua, black jack, black kingfish and black papio. On our HAWAII FISHING NEWS state record list, we use the term “black trevally,” which dodges any use of Hawaiian or hapa-haole names.…

Fished for False Killer Whales Lately? The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is blaming the “so-called” decline of the rarely seen and seldom reported Main Hawaiian Islands distinct false killer whale population on fishermen. At the same time, the DLNR is taking exception to the NMFS allowing admitted whale killer, the U.S. Navy, to not recognize distinct Hawaiian island whale populations. False killer whales around the MHI were listed as “endangered” under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) on December 28, 2012. These whales were then classified as “Main Hawaiian Islands insular distinct population segment.” NMFS thinks the population numbers around 151 animals and has declined since the 1980s. According to the ESA’s final rule listing for the MHI insular false killer whales, over half of the significant threats are fishery-related.…

Lahaina Harbor’s billfish numbers dropped by 50 percent during the month. Fourteen blue and one striped marlin were weighed. An additional four blues were released, bringing the harbor’s monthly billfish total for September to 19. Top Fish Comes in Tail-First The REEL HOOKER pulled in a tailwrapped 449.1-lb blue marlin for Trei Deuble. He was fishing with Capt. Greg France and deckman Adam Klevins. Capt. Greg was about a mile inside of the Kbuoy, off the southwest corner of Lana‘i. He was trolling in a porpoise school as ‘iwa birds worked the bait. The fishermen were in the school for 20 minutes before they got a bite on the long-corner position. Greg’s first thought was “tuna,” until he saw a marlin bill come up out of the water. The marlin…