Innholdsfortegnelse for August 2015 i Hawaii Fishing News

■ The S. Tokunaga Store Ulua Challenge has become what one of my friends called the “Super Bowl of Ulua Fishing”! Anglers from across the state and even from the mainland flock to the shores of the Big Island to participate in this yearly event. In years past, the Ulua Challenge has been the largest shorefishing tournament in the state, and this year was no different with an astounding 611 entrants! It’s a good thing the Big Island has a wealth of coastline where fishermen are able to set up camp for the four-day tourney. Days, weeks and even months prior to the start of the tournament, rumors were circling around town about which spots had already been “locked down” for the tournament. The so-called popular and well-known fishing spots…

■ Spinners Café and Waianae Boat Trailer Storage held their first inaugural Ahi Shootout on June 20 at the Wai‘anae Boat Harbor. The Ahi Fever tournament was cancelled this year, so Victor Lozano organized the Spinners Café Tournament with the help of the Waianae Boat Fishing Club. Victor didn’t let the fishermen down. There were 14 ways to win $30,600 in cash prizes. Victor and his many volunteers welcomed 90 boats for this one-day tournament. The beautiful Keala Patterson was crowned Miss Spinners Café Shootout, gracing all the fishermen with her smile for their catch pictures. Spinners weighmaster for the day was Ewalani Stone, who did an excellent job making sure all the catches were weighed professionally. This tournament raised $2,000 for the Hawai‘i Children’s Foundation and provided four scholarships…

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For letters, with photos, received during August 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> Just want to share this amazing catch by Jacob Nicholls. This young Maui fisherman had been hustling–going fishing three to four days a week trying to catch his first ulua–for over a year. In the middle of March, he was awakened by the sound of his bell and ratchet at around 3 a.m. Line was peeling off from his heavy Nitro armed with a Penn 4/0 wide spool. The fish went straight out then started pulling to the right. He managed to get its head turned and pulled it back…

Only One Marlin Landed In Worldwide Event ■ The crew of the PESCA GROSSA set the bar high early in the 31st Annual Blue Marlin World Cup Championship (World Cup). They landed a 652-lb blue marlin to give Madeira, Portugal, the title they had not won since 1997. Angler Anthony Johnson from Davie, Florida, had Capt. Duart Nuno Goncalves of Madeira and Capt. Gerard “Frothy” de Silva from Trinidad and Tobago put him on the right fish on the right day. In the unique World Cup tournament, teams fish anywhere in the world they think they can catch a blue marlin over the 500-lb minimum size. Each team fishes eight hours in their time zone, always on July 4, to see who can catch the largest blue marlin. It is…

■ At its 163rd meeting, the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council recommended that the United States develop a national Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO) bigeye tuna catch limit that would apply to U.S. longline and purse-seine fisheries and include the catch limits provided for the U.S. Territories. This recommendation reflects growing Council concern about the allocation of bigeye catch limits stemming from the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC). In 2008, the WCPFC adopted a Conservation and Management Measure (CMM) that limited bigeye catch by the U.S. longline fleet (i.e., the Hawai‘i longline vessels) to 3,763 metric tons (mt). More recent CMMs from the WCPFC have reduced the U.S. longline limit of bigeye to 3,554 mt in 2015 and 3,345 mt in 2017. Meanwhile, the WCPFC provided…

■ “I’ve entered us into a fishing tournament,” announced my Fishing Buddy. “What?” I thought. “When did the universe shift and drop us into this dark hole?” Please don’t misunderstand me. Fishing tournaments are fine and dandy. They are just what other people do. I’ve always considered my time on the water to be a spiritual, uplifting experience–my Zen-like state of being one with nature, taking in the sounds, the sights, the smells, the feel of the boat undulating in the waves, the tug of the fish on the line. And then there’s the reward of catching a keeper fish–cleaning, cooking and, best of all, eating it! How could a competitive event come even close to this feeling? It turned out that two of our longtime friends had joined their…

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Ball Your Endloop ■ When making the endloop in a nylon leader, be careful when crimping the sleeve. If you apply too much pressure, you can crush the nylon and it will fail during a long, hard fight. With too little pressure, the sleeve may slip and let go. Either way, you lose the fish, hooks, lure and leader. The image shows a loop that slipped but was saved by the ball of nylon formed on the end of the leader prior to crimping the sleeve. Form the loop, and ball the end of the nylon by heating it with a match. Let the nylon cool to harden the ball. Then withdraw the end until the ball is up against the edge of the sleeve as shown. Note also that…

Striped Mullet for He‘eia Fishpond ■ The 88-acre He‘eia fishpond restoration project is coming alive with 28,000 striped mullet fry. The fish were released in the ongoing effort to revive the Hawaiian practice of raising food fish. Hi‘ilei Kawelo, executive director of Paepae o He‘eia, the non-profit organization restoring the Kane‘ohe fishpond, told the Honolulu Star Advertiser, “It’s more economical, more energy efficient and more sustainable.” The Oceanic Institute spawned the fish in January and said that the green color of the fishpond was good and meant that the fish would have food. The He‘eia fishpond is at least 600 years old and has gates that control both salt and fresh water flows into it. Three one-acre pens made of plastic mesh hold the mullet. Two other fishponds, Loko Ea…

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