Innholdsfortegnelse for May 2017 i Hawaii Fishing News

1 Why do ono like root beer? Who says ono like root beer? Well, all of the big fish that pounce on root beer colored lures with rootbeer colored skirts. That includes the biggest ono weighed at Kona’s The Charter Desk scales this year at the time I am writing this. Donny Kobayashi and Jason Wong boated the 75.5-pounder during a late-March trip out of Honokohau Harbor. They were trolling from Donny’s small no-name skiff when the ono grabbed a “chromed, scoop-faced jethead with root beer and orange skirts, as we trolled along the 40-fathom edge,” Donny said. Kona’s top-producing ono lure for many years has been a root beer colored lure made by the late Randy Llanes. Perhaps Randy’s brown lures caught so many ono only because everyone pulls…

For the Protection of Hawaii’s Native Wildlife 850 Richards Street, Suite 505, Honolulu, HI 96813-4709 Phone/Fax: (808) 528-1432; hiaudsoc@pixi.com www.hawaiiaudubon.org TO: Hawaii State Dept. of Business, Economic Development & Tourism P.O. Box 2359 Honolulu, HI 96813 Hawaii State Board of Land & Natural Resources 151 Punchbowl Street, Room 220 Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96813 Hawaii State Dept. of Health 1250 Punchbowl St #423 Honolulu, HI 96813 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 9 U.S. Army Corps of Eng San Francisco, CA U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Honolulu District Regulatory Office [CEPOH-RO] Building 230 Fort Shafter, HI 96858 I am submitting comments on behalf of the approximately 2000 members of the Hawaii Audubon Society regarding the proposed Hawai‘i Kai Marina Maintenance Dredging use of Rim Island No. 2 as Dredged Material Disposal Area, Hawai‘i…

Local and national non-profit and non-governmental organizations are offering $50,000 for information about the killings of five Hawaiian seals, with the February suspicious death of seal R4DP near ‘Ele‘ele on Kaua‘i making the matter even more urgent. Since 2011, these groups have offered $10,000 rewards for information leading to the arrest and conviction of people involved in the killing of Hawaiian monk seals. These deaths are among 11 reported monk seal killings since 2009 that remain open and unsolved. DLNR Chair Suzanne Case said, “We are deeply indebted to The Humane Society of the United States, Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust, Conservation Council for Hawai‘i and the Center for Biological Diversity, which once again have stepped forward to try and help solve the senseless and outrageous killings of one of…

KONA MARCH Catch and Consume Report Kona’s charter catch reports are limited to tuna (‘ahi) weighing over 100 lbs and billfish catches of any size, any species: (S)=Striped Marlin, (B)=Black Marlin. Fish Wt. Angler Capt. Boat March 2 Marlin (S) 57 Snaver Contessa............................... BITE ME 1 Ahi 175 Kronebusch Cherry................................ CHERRY PIT Spearfish 41 Russell Palmer..................................EL JOBEAN March 3 Marlin 139 Blake Blake............................................ TLC 2 Marlin 182 Worden Whitcomb............................ GO GET EM Spearfish 30 O’Brien Bagwell........................................ SILKY Spearfish 42 Garrett Heintz...............................LINDA SUE IV Marlin 110 Bennett Parker........................ MARLIN MAGIC II March 4 Spearfish 25 Simpson Wigzell............................... EZ PICKENS March 5 Spearfish 30 Simpson Gauron...............................HOOKED UP Spearfish 30 Simpson Guaron...............................HOOKED UP March 6 Spearfish 42 Ware Mongrieg............................. SEAWIFE II March 10 Marlin 118 Hoover Mongrieg............................. SEAWIFE II Spearfish 30 unknown Terwilliger...........................…

The 4th Annual Kona Hongwanji Judo Club Fishing Fundraiser Tournament was held on Sunday April 2, 2017. Here is the winner’s list: Ages 7 & Under 1st Place 2.08 lb Zayhdan Barawis 2nd Place 1.87 lb Romelo Blackhat 3rd Place 1.055 lb Sienna Mae Caberto Ages 8–12 1st Place 1.59 lb Isess Kaleohano 2nd Place 1.32 lb Javen Hahn 3rd Place 1.31 lb Summit Suzuki Ages 13–17 1st Place 25.5 lb Javen Blackhat 2nd Place 8.0 lb Dayhtan Barawis 3rd Place 4.325 lb Chase Freitas Omilu Division—Adults 1st Place 18 lb Jordan Kilkenny 2nd Place 2.875 lb Manuel Blackhat 3rd Place 1.895 lb Isaac Wendling Open Divison—Adults 1st Place & Side Pot Winner 80.0 lb Jacob Kennison 2nd Place 56.5 lb Stephen Kilkenny 3rd Place 51.5 lb Paul Petrill ……

Hilo Trollers April Tournament Results The Hilo Trollers got some time on the water during the first club tournament of the season on Sunday, April 9. The tournament had been postponed from April 2 due to small-craft advisories. On April 2, three Trollers boats did venture out because they were prepped and iced. All three caught good-sized ‘ahi. Two boats landed two ‘ahi each, and one boat landed three. They got pounded by the ocean and by the fish! The bite was on at HK-buoy the week before the tournament, with fish coming up on the troll as well as palu-‘ahi gear. On the Friday before the tournament, a former troller landed a marlin, some ‘ahi and some mahimahi, so hopes were high among the fishermen. Even the weigh-in crew…

Lehua Helicopter Pied Pipers Helicopters flinging rat poison over Lehua Island, the 282-acre bird sanctuary located 1 mile off Ni‘ihau, is what “The Lehua Island Ecosystem Restoration Project” is prescribing. The Department of Land and Natural Resources agrees and assures all that its “Division of Forestry and Wildlife anticipates a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) declaration for this project.” Not so fast, said Hawai‘i Island environmental anthropologist Syd Singer about flinging diphaci-none rat poison on a fragile landscape, as outlined in the “Draft Environmental Assessment Lehua Island Ecosystem Restoration Project March 2017.” “Chicks of several endangered and protected species will be exposed to sub-lethal doses of anticoagulant poison,” Syd commented on the project. “While this EA assumes that all chicks with sub-lethal doses of poison will survive, the fact…

Send to: P.O. Box 25488, Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96825 or e-mail: <fishnews@hawaii.rr.com> Uncle Chuck, Here are a couple pics of the next generation. “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”—Chinese Proverb Mahalo, Stephen Meno Aloha Chuck, Capt. Shawn Palmer and I released this 500-lb blue marlin on the El Jobean. Mahalo, Sawyer Slattery Aloha Uncle Chuck, It was my first time on a fishing boat. We woke up at 4 am and was in the water at 5 am. We headed to some south Kona spots that my dad knew about to do some bottom fishing. We found the right spot and dropped our lines. On my first drop I caught a big nabeta.…

On Saturday, February 25, 2017, I caught my biggest ulua by far at 102 lbs. It was the last night of the two-day ulua tournament I had entered, with stiff competition. I was up against great ulua fishermen, and I knew I needed something good that night. Everything felt good from setting up my rigs to handling the bait. My bait touched water at 8 p.m. sharp. It had been quiet most of the night with just a couple of dings on the other poles. By 1:45 a.m. everyone was tired and drained from the day. We all dozed off and fell asleep. Ten minutes into our nap, a ratchet on my Newell 646 reel was smoking! Like music to my ears, it woke me. My feet started dancing their…

Lahaina Harbor had its best March for blue marlin since 2007, and its best month for blues since July 2016. Fourteen blues were weighed, and another eight were released. Eight of the 14 blues weighed were between 80 and 150 lbs, and four were in the 228- to 291-lb range. The eight blues released were estimated to weigh between 100 and 300 lbs. A single striped marlin was weighed. The spearfish catch numbers were the best since January 2016. There was a four-day run the middle of the month when 14 spearfish were landed. The monthly spearfish catch total was 27 fish. Month’s Largest Blue Surprises Crew The DIE HARD 2 weighed the largest blue marlin for Lahaina Harbor in more than five weeks: a 485.6-lb fish captured by Rob…

After wildlife biologists and veterinarians relocated a 10-month-old Hawaiian monk seal on March 30 from the Lihi Canal in Kapa‘a, Kaua‘i, to a beach on the island’s west side, they’d hoped she would stay away from the canal. On April 11, the seal, identified as RH92, returned to the canal along with an adult seal (RK13). Together they’ve been seen feeding on small fish along with discarded fish parts in the manmade waterway. The return of RH92 to Lihi Canal is prompting stepped-up public awareness and outreach and potentially enforcement of littering laws for fishermen who dispose of fish parts in the water. Jamie Thomton, the Kaua‘i Marine Mammal Response program coordinator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), explained, “Any time you attract a wild animal into an…