I just got over a month long bout of bronchitis and needed an easy day of fishing. The water was glassy calm, the normally picky daytime opelu were ravenous but the large predators weren’t around to eat the snack sized 7 inchers.

It was so calm I paddled a mile south and ran into 12 inch sized opelu but all my 12lb to 15lb rigs got busted off by either multiple opelu, or kawalea (Heller’s barracuda). Twice I landed a big opelu but had the rest of the rig broken off. Since I recently became aware that a lot of friends like to eat opelu, I tried to catch as many as I could before I ran out of rigs. The fish were caught mainly on Halloween (gold with black glitter) and green CHL Minnows.

Here’s the video of the relaxing day.