Innholdsfortegnelse for March 2017 i Hawaii Fishing News

“KULA KAI” by Norman Nagai ..........$50 12" x 18" Limited Edition “Moi Hole” by Les Hata .................$50 20" x 27" Limited Edition “Kona Tonner” by Les Hata ............$50 12" x 18" Limited Edition “Reef Predators” by Les Hata .........$50 16" x 24" Limited Edition About the Artists Artist/Illustrators Les Hata and Norman Nagai are recognized worldwide as two of the best. Both artists are accomplished fishermen whose artwork has appeared on HFN Hawaii Fishing Almanac Covers. Signed and numbered lithographs on high-quality cardstock paper ready for framing.…

The 2017 Hawai‘i State Legislature is in session, and it’s fishing season for state House and Senate bills. Now’s the time when political anti-fishing sharks can bite fishermen, so it’s best to tighten drags and be prepared for a fight. Phil Fernandez, President of Hawaii Fishermen’s Alliance for Conservation and Tradition Inc. (HFACT), said, “We are cautiously optimistic that it will be a quiet Legislature for fishing issues this year; however, it is pretty early to tell.” Want to protect your right to fish and feed your ‘ohana? Then get informed and get active in the Legislature. It’s easy. Log onto www.capitol.hawaii.gov/. When there, register as a user and sign-in. Once you are signed in, use the bill number to find and submit testimony. Testimonies can be as simple as…

2016 Lahaina Charter Fishing Statistics When determining the top Lahaina Harbor charter sportfishing statistics for billfish catches, several variables are considered. Total numbers alone do not determine the final rankings. Lahaina’s overall billfish numbers (363) were the second best since 2011. Most people look at the number of blue marlin caught and their total weight as an indicator of the top rankings. The blue marlin numbered 98 weighed and 66 released, totaling 164, but 2016 was the worst year for big blue marlin since 1988. Only eight blues weighing more than 400 lbs made it to the Lahaina Harbor scales. The number of striped marlin weighed totaled 38. The number of shortbill spearfish weighed totaled 114, the most since 2008. The majority of the spearfish weights were “guesstimated,” so their…

Broadcast Rat Poison Sydney Ross Singer, an environmental anthropologist and director of The Good Shepherd Foundation in Pahoa, wants hunters, gatherers and members of the outdoors ‘ohana to know about a study that wants to broadcast the spread of “extremely toxic rodenticides to eradicate rodents and mongooses from wilderness areas throughout Hawai‘i.” The study is jointly managed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Wildlife Research Center, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). Sydney said that the USDA is now asking the Environmental Protection Agency for an Experimental Use Permit. According to Sydney, the permit wants to test the poison chlorophacinone at the Army’s Hawaii Island Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA) to see how well it kills mice “and to see what else it kills.” “It is extremely…

Aloha HFN, On Saturday morning, February 4, 2017, my friend Josh Hanog and I went fishing. It was my second outing with my Shimano Twinpower 14000SW loaded with 80-lb test Saltiga boat braid. I was using Lelekai Palama’s 150-lb test wind-on leader paired with an SPX PE6 rod from Storm Proctor of Honolulu. We threw out our first casts by 7:15 a.m. For two hours we cast and changed lures here and there. By 9:15, we still had no chasers, so we rested a while. By 9:30 I started casting again. I cast five to seven more times. As I was retrieving and watching my lure, the water suddenly started boiling and my reel started screaming. I called Josh for assistance. He came running with the gaff. I fought this…

H.B. 121 Wants 30 Percent of Your Hawai‘i Waters House Bill 121 wants 30 percent of nearshore Hawai‘i waters. “I advise fishermen to be on it…,” said Teresa Nakama, commission member of the Hawai‘i County Game Management Advisory Commission, when contacting HFN with an H.B. 121 action alert. “We need to send this viral.. .. All they want is to ban our use of our natural resources!” H.B. 121, introduced by Rep. Kaniela Ing of House District 11, Maui, is entitled “Ocean Management; Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument Program; Coastal Zone Management.” Buried within the bill’s Northwestern Hawaiian Islands jargon is this: “Statutorily establish a goal to effectively manage 30 percent of nearshore waters by 2030.” For more than 20 years, the zero-sum Marine Protected Area (MPA) no-fishing zealots have turned…

Novice cooks and gourmet seafood chefs will love the tempting simplicity of the more than three hundred recipes that are offered in “FRESH CATCH OF THE DAY … from the FISHWIFE.” An extensive array of Fishwife’s Tips will guide readers to success- from choosing fresh seafood, to safe handling and preparation, to innovative cooking in the kitchen and barbecuing and smoking seafood outdoors. This, the second work of author and “Fishwife” Shirley Rizzuto, spanned the last decade of the 20th century. As we enter the next millennium and increasing attention is given to healthy living for longer life, scientists and dietitians predict we will turn more and more to the oceans of the world for healthy eating. With this in mind, “FRESH CATCH OF THE DAY” will most certainly become…

Perhaps the most abundant dolphin species found from O‘ahu to the Big Island are pantropical spotted dolphins, often referred to as kiko (Hawaiian for “spot”), or porpoise in Hawai‘i (although technically they aren’t porpoise, which are a distantly related group of colder-water species, such as the harbor and Dall’s porpoise seen off the U.S. West Coast). Most of the time spotted dolphins are found offshore, unlike spinner dolphins, which rest in shallow-water areas during the day. As juveniles, the two species can be difficult to tell apart because spotted dolphins don’t have any spots when born; they develop spots with age. Light spots emerge on their dark dorsal surface, and dark spots appear on their lighter sides and belly. Comparing dorsal fin shape and beak shape is the best way…

Hilo Trollers When this column appears in print, we will be a month away from the Hilo Trollers’ first tournament of the season to be held on Sunday, April 2. The new rules and 2017 club membership forms and tournament entry forms are available at all three supporting local fishing supply stores: S. Tokunaga Store; J. Hara Store; and Boat House Hawaii. Mike, Jeff and Duane are all very supportive of the club, and they also have everything you might need. The first tournament is the day after April Fool’s Day. Don’t be an April Fool and lose a fish for lack of preparation. Start preparing now. Make sure all of your boat’s operating systems are in top shape and that you have all of the required safety gear on…

Send to: P.O. Box 25488, Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96825 or e-mail: <fishnews@hawaii.rr.com> Dear Chuck and HFN staff, I have a passion for fishing and been on the Big Island for just over 2 years now. You can find me at the Kona pier often trying to land the beautiful fish our ocean provides for us. This holoholo action shows that there are still amazing catches happening at the Kailua-Kona pier. This bugga put up a good fight! This mu measured short, 19 inches, biggest one I’ve caught so far! Thank you, Ceara Aloha Chuck, When it comes to family fun it doesn’t get much better than this...everyone in the Crew this day caught a species that they had never seen or heard of before including this 58-lb spearfish! A personal best…

March 1 - Sunrise: 6:52 am, Sunset: 6:36 pm • March 15 - Sunrise: 6:40 am, Sunset: 6:41 pm • March 31 - Sunrise: 6:25 am, Sunset: 6:46 pm FISHING FADS CURRENT UPDATE Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology RECENTLY DEPLOYED D, E, G, FF, HS, XX, F, OT, A, SS, KH, K, SO, DD, Q, M, HO, MM, CC, AA, CO, EK, DK, BB, KK, Z, HK, C, VV, RN, V, II, J, X, LL, U, HH, T DISCONTINUED: HAWAII QQ / FOR LOCATIONS : WWW.HIMB.HAWAII.EDU/FADS MISSING FADS MAUI OAHU N, LA S, Bo, R HAWAII KAUAI ZZ EK, WK CIGUATERA DATE NO. FISH ISLAND 02/07/16 2 BARRACUD AOAHU 04/25/16 1 UNKNOWN MAUI 06/10/16 1 ULUA KAUAI 08/15/16 2 SEA BASS KAUAI 08/28/16 4 EEL MAUI TIDE VARIATIONS FROM HONOLULU…