baby omilus feeding
(Neighbor Island location, photo by JC)
Took a friend from Kansas to a spot on the south shore that gets pounded by divers and fishermen every single day, yet continues to produce. Sure enough there was a guy feverishly whipping the shallows. As we fished about 50 yds from him, a diver made his way through our area. The rising afternoon tide combined with the diver’s activity seemed to stir the juvenile omilu (bluefin trevally) bite. We ended up with 2 or 3 each and I had one rip drag and unbutton before we could see it. My Kansas friend was impressed with how those 4 – 6 inch omilus pulled compared to pond crappie of similar size.
The omilus were far from the minimum 10″ head to fork-of-tail length and were released unharmed. Bait was a homemade secret.
Cool, what did you use to take this picture? The omilu’s are beautiful, nice color already. Beautiful shot.
Hi Kelly,
A good friend of mine took that underwater shot with some waterproof camera, I’ll have to ask which one. I don’t believe he had a filter on it, I think the limited lighting produced that beautiful fuzzy effect, almost as if it’s a watercolor painting.
-scott