My spots didn’t have oama until much later than last year, and the piles have been small. They’ve also been more skittish and harder to catch. On the upside, with less oama around for the predators, every time I’ve fished for oama this year (just a handful of times so far) the omilus, kakus and even oio have been stalking and hitting them.
I’ve only used oama for bait twice so far, but both times the oama got whacked on the kayak, and friends have caught papio and kaku with oama next to the oama pile.
I’d love to hear how you guys are doing this oama season. You can either add a comment to this post that everyone will see, or send me a note via the Contact Page.
thanks!