Quote Originally Posted by oldhaole
Summer means one thing to the fishermen of Hawaii. The fish are near shore spawning. Below are pics of our last trip to South Wailua. Because the Hana punks have been busting car windows, and stealing stuff we were dropped off and spent 2 days down there.

In 48 hours we caught an 5 lb uku (grey snapper, very tasty) an 10 lb umilu (juvinile jack travelli) That first night I caught a tax collector (6 ft shark) and my partner caught a batman (Giant stingray) that weighed close to 200 lbs. Since anything we catch has to be hauled up the cliff we just let those last two go.

Next night we caught an ulua of @ 10 lbs and a 36 lb ulua. Both of us hauled our fish out to the top. Took two trips. Tht hill is a killer.

Here are some pics.

Pic 1) Trail down. View from bottom. If you look closely you can see a rope and a ladder. That be the trail. It realy gets fun going up with a 50 lb pack after a good rain.

Pic 2 & 3. Sun is setting. Casting poles. I use 14 ft lemmiglass poles and 4/0 Penn Senator reels with @450 yds of 50 lb line in each reel. With a 9 oz lead I can cast it @ 100 yds into a 25 MPH headwind. The guys I was with can cast over 150 yds so I am way short in that dept. Lucky for me fish have tails.

Pics 4 is the view of the bay. This is where we cast our poles to. So that is where the fish are. Water in that bay is more than 120 ft deep.

Pic 5 is our garoot with the dinner. Small fish is the uku. Bigger one is the umilu. Both were caught with live bait in the afternoon. Behind him is our campsite. Rains a lot in the night there so we gotta stay dry.
Ive been to Hawaii a few times,the fishing is awesome there,but not as awesome as in Alaska.