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You are here: Home / Fishing Report / Fishing the Diamond Head – Waikiki Fisheries Management Area on a blustery day

Fishing the Diamond Head – Waikiki Fisheries Management Area on a blustery day

May 27, 2014 By Scott 3 Comments

Potholing the FMA

Potholing the FMA

Justin from Berkeley CA was researching spots to fish for his upcoming South Shore visit and stumbled upon the posts about the Diamond Head – Waikiki FMA.  He contacted me and along with his friend Pete, we fished the area of the FMA that’s wadeable on the minus tide.

The 15 – 20 mph trade winds made it hard to cast against the wind so we “pot holed” the cracks and crevices in the reef and cast with the wind onto the shallow reef.

The reef fish bit furiously but quite a few immediately holed up in the rocks and avoided being yanked out.  Maybe we broke some jaws today.

Chop and slop

Chop and slop

Justin won “the fish that got away” honors for the black tip reef shark that bit a long Makata Lure strip but the shark rubbed the hook off on a rock. Sounds like a fish story but I saw the 5 foot shark swimming towards us. I guess the folks at Makata Lures have to update the packaging to say “Papio, moi, kaku and shark”.

Since Justin and Pete didn’t strike me as poachers from the mainland, or guys that would expose the hot spots on the internet, we’ll be going to another spot tomorrow for a little omilu action.

 

 

Filed Under: Fishing Report, HI Visitor Tips, Tidepool, Whipping Tagged With: Diamond Head - Waikiki FMA

Comments

  1. Matty says

    March 3, 2025 at 11:13 am

    Bruddah, mahalos for this blog. I live Oahu and just started whipping. I came across your blogs about Diamond Head because I was interested in whipping over there. What’s your thoughts about hitting it in the “legal” area Hawaii Kai side of the Diamond Head Lighthouse. I usually surf there but was thinking about whipping there. My only go-to spot is Ewa side but sometimes I no like drive that far. Shootz!

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    • Scott says

      March 5, 2025 at 1:01 pm

      Howzit Matty,
      I have whipped that side of Lighthouse and it’s good, especially when the oama are in. Low tide is better so you can cross over the land that juts out. I knew of that spot from surfing the Lighthouse channel and sticking my head in the water with a mask on. 🙂

      Shoots!
      Scott

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