Innholdsfortegnelse for December 2013 i Hawaii Fishing News

Mauka/Makai ‘Till I Die! “The boys”–Ryan, Millo, Jess and I–had not gone fishing for a long time. We were having no luck between mano (sharks) and lava tour boats cutting our lines and hooking up with more mano and boats than ulua. We all wanted to go fishing at a spot near my home where my family has fished for 40 years and I have been going since I was 3 years old. It was hot and dry. Low high tide would be at 9 p.m. The water was flat, and no tour boats were in the area because the lava was not flowing into the sea. It seemed like a good time to go fishing. The boys arrived at around 4 p.m., and we went out for bait. One…

There is such great fishing in New Zealand (NZ) that you can literally catch them with a shoestring! Well, not quite. In 1980 I was a trout guide in New Zealand and over the next 20 years my lovely wife, Sasa, and I raised our two kids there. They were kind of overloaded, growing up in a fly fishing-mad household. Even Sasa, an American Samoan, quickly learned the art of fly fishing and became a licensed guide. The genes were transferred to my son Joaquin, now Capt. Joaquin, 25, a Honolulu bonefish guide (see <www.bonefishhonolulu.com> and “Bonefish Honolulu” on Facebook). We ate a lot of trout! We dined on all types of great New Zealand seafood and fished all over that amazing country. Each year we go back to our…

It was our semi-annual trek back to “da ‘aina.” After spending a few days on O‘ahu with my ‘ohana, my Fishing Buddy and I headed off to Kona for some fishing with friends. As usual, we teamed up with our old friend Danny Medeiros. ’Way back when, Danny, his wife, Sara, and I worked for the electric company. Bright and early, we headed out of Honokahau Harbor on Danny’s boat. We were going to Fbuoy where we hoped to pull in some mahimahi. “Kinda hard to say what we goin’ get,” said Danny. The weather was overcast, and the seas were a bit rough. Danny went on to say that the weather would deteriorate as the day went by but with luck we’d get some fish before noon. A couple…

Hilo Trollers Banquet and Awards Ceremony The Hilo Trollers held their 38th Annual Awards Ceremony and Banquet on Saturday, October 5. The awards ceremony wrapped up another safe and successful season. The banquet was held at the Higashi Hongwanji Mission. More than 50 fishermen and their families enjoyed great food, fishy jokes, a witty ditty, and lots of fish talk. Members brought great pupus and the caterer, Kawamoto Store, provided great grinds. There were also door prizes for everyone and a raffle and silent auction to benefit the club. A number of lure makers generously donated lure heads. The Labor Day Tournament awards and the year-end Hilo Trollers awards were presented at the banquet. The coveted Fisherman of the Year Award went to Capt. Jared Miyake and crew Randal Yoneda…

Red line is a quick reference of the period of the 24 hour day the moon is over the main Hawaiian islands, starting at moon rise and ending at moon set. (Actual rise & set times are printed for each day.) Blue line is tidal curve from high to low for each tidal sequence. Dark line grid is in 1 foot high by 6 hour wide measurements. Light grid is in 2 tenths of a foot by 1 hour wide increments. (Actual highs & lows are printed for each day. Weather in Hawai'i waters will play a more important role in any marine activity during winter. Mariners are advised that the change from good to bad weather can be fast. The severe weather events than can occur, in decreasing order…

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If you want to catch a huge bonefish, better known in Hawai‘i as ‘o‘io, then you should start hitting the grounds now. The next two to three months are a great time to catch bonefish. ‘O‘io prefer the cooler waters that winter brings, but huge ‘o‘io also can be caught during the hot summer months. If you are looking for a lot of ‘o‘io action, then cooler waters tend to provide more steady strikes. Most ‘o‘io you’ll catch will weigh between 2 and 6 lbs, but 8-plus-lb heavyweights are not uncommon. If you are a spearfisher, as I am, you’ve probably noticed that the sand has migrated drastically, covering bottoms that were rocky just last month. If you don’t free dive, then you might have noticed that the beaches have…

Eight Tips for More Mahimahi It’s “floater” season, a time when the Central Pacific currents send more flotsam and jetsam into island waters. Picking through the trash in the current lines can mean a bonanza for island fishermen who are searching for mahimahi. So finding that trash is our first of eight tips for catching more mahimahi. Tip 1. Find a floater. Mahimahi are attracted to flotsam, jetsam, buoys and other objects they consider to be “schooling companions”–a technical term for “I don’t know why they like floating debris, either.” This winter, we will probably see more and more stuff that was washed into the sea during the great Japan tsunami of March 2011. On a successful mahimahi trip at the end of October, for example, Bill Jardine and his…

Matson’s Molasses Fish Stew Matson, Hawai‘i’s foremost shipping company, received a Federal Grand Jury subpoena for documents relating to the September 9, 2013, 233,000- gallon molasses spill in Honolulu Harbor. When the molasses pulled oxygen from Honolulu Harbor, the spill was responsible for more than 26,000 dead fish collected for the trash heap. Some scientists believe the molasses also damaged coral reefs. The spill is quickly becoming a “Molasses Gate.” Allegations, denials and cover-ups are implicating both Matson and the state of Hawai‘i Department of Transportation, which controls Hawai‘i harbors, of wrongdoing. According to Civil Beat, “In July 2012, DOT had sent a letter to Matson informing the company that it had a leak in one of its molasses pipelines. Then in May 2013, just four months before the massive…

Lahaina Harbor’s billfish and blue marlin numbers dropped to almost nothing during October. Only four blues, one spearfish and one sailfish were weighed. That brought the monthly total to a meager six billfish. Hundreds of mahimahi were brought in by early morning boaters, but the fish were only in the 6-to 15-lb range. A few ono made it to the scales to break up the monotony. A surprisingly rare catch was boated aboard the DESPERADO. Right outside Black Rock Point (Pu‘u Keka‘a), Krystal Nichols landed a 54.1-lb sailfish. She was fishing with Capt. Dan Shaffer and deckman Capt. Rich Lynch. They were on a full-day charter fishing the Nbuoy, located 14 miles off Cape Halawa, Moloka‘i. They picked up a couple of mahimahi at the buoy and then trolled all…

Early in the morning of September 16, 2013, thousands of ‘oama swam along the shoreline of Waimea Bay. ‘Oama were even jumping on the sand! I started catching ‘oama and using them for bait for small game because papio were chasing the ‘oama like crazy. At about 8:15 that morning, a hahalalu school came in. I started whipping for hahalalu to use as bait for my conventional set-up. Finally, I caught two hahalalu for my two ulua poles. The lucky one is my Ozone baitcasting 14-foot pole. I used an S546 Newell reel with 50-lb test line on it. On the end was 60-lb test leader with double 4/0 hooks. One hook went in the mouth and one went in the tail of an 8-inch-long hahalalu. After 15 minutes of…

Chuck, My fishing IT friend from “Silly-Clone” Valley, California, went back to Christmas Isle again. He mainly targets ‘o‘io (bonefish) with fly rods. My preference would be plugging for papio. Anyway, I declined–again–to go, ’cause I still hadn’t recovered from the flu. Cost is in the neighborhood of $3,000. I suppose one could do the math for the cost per fish. William King In July my fishing buddy Danny and I returned to Christmas Island for our third trip together. We stayed at our usual hotel in London, known by various names–Ote, Tekebaia, or Divers. We were picked up at the airport along with another family from Hawai‘i. They were the Tallmans–grandfather, father and three boys (13-year-old twins and a 9-year-old). The first day we got unpacked, met the guide…

For letters, with photos, received during December we will send you these great gifts from HFN, our way of saying thanks for sharing your catch! … Hana pa‘a, Chuck Send to: P.O. Box 25488, Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96825 or e-mail: <fishnews@hawaii.rr.com> Bubble Sticker LED Mini Light Collector’s POG Uncle Chuck, Here is a photo of the 6-lb triple tail I caught off our dock on the intracoastal waterway in Clearwater Beach, Florida. It put up a good fight, however, as you can see, in the end I won. As we always do, once we took the photo we released this beauty back to the sea. Mahalo, Mitchell Pantelides Clearwater Beach, Florida What’s up Chuck! It’s been a while, but here’s a picture of my latest catch. Aloha, SPB Brian K Domingcil…

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