Holo holo SUP fishing (again)
Hi Scott,
Some fat oama are still around and the live oama you gave us were ACTION JACKSON!
A couple of weekends ago we went in inside the waves on the south shore of Oahu and had a blast! I took home three 3-pound omilu and a couple of 2-pounders and one 2 pound roi. My partner got a few small papio and a small barracuda. Didn’t get very good pics, but here is a shot of some of the catch before cleaning. The papio were all caught in the morning, near the top of a 1.9’ high tide and all fish had empty stomachs. We made sashimi, nanbanzuke, vina dos, and some chiri (soup). My wife is a good cook and it was all sooo onolicious!
Shoots,
Kelly
Yup, oama still good. Some large ones, lots of small ones. Fished the Westdide the past couple of weeks using the oama and caught some omilu, 1 big barred jack, couple of yellow spot, whites, nice size moana kale, 1 kaku, a huge green hinalea all off of live oama. Actually, my brother was filleting live oama on one of his poles and got the kaku, omilu, and barred jack. I don’t know if it’s the odor of a freshly eviscerated fish, or they were just hungry. Some of the stomachs were empty, but I have seen papio purge their guts while fighting a line. Maybe to fight better. But the barred jack had (get ready for this) 2 of those armor plated trunk fish accompanying a blenny and green horse (uma) shrimp. The trunk fish were like rocks in its belly. I don’t know what’s even digestible in those fish. Must’ve been desperately hungry.
Hi Dave,
Ho… you guys got some good eating fish on the oamas! ‘Specially the yellow spot and moana kali. And that barred jack finally got a nice soft oama meal and got caught!
-scott
Nice haul! Looks like the south shore’s been producing for everyone. Oio action has been hot too, so it seems the common factor is the lingering summertime conditions (translation: warm water temps!) Let’s hope they stick around!
Hi Jason,
Good to hear of your oio warm water recent success. On a recent kayak trip my fish finder registered 84 degrees near the surface which is about 10 degrees warmer then it registered in the winter.
I’m hoping for a good fall – early winter bite in the deep with so much bait all around.
-scott