Resumed kayak fishing after an almost 3 month hiatus. A more detailed report to follow. Started at the bottom of the low tide and fished into the big rising tide. Was very surprised to hook omilu to 4lb and white papio past 10lb that broke me off, all on 1.5″ to 2.25″ Completely Hooked Lures soft plastics fished on 15lb to 25lb damashi rigs.

I’ve never had so many papio hit the damashi, and those big fish seemed to have pushed the reef fish away from my productive spots. Maybe the papio are staging to spawn inshore soon, and are waiting for the halalu and oama to arrive? Could be an epic inshore season!

Here’s a video showing how the fish consistently got larger as the day went on.