Mike from Florida, whom I met through this blog, is vacationing with family on the west side of Maui.
beautiful but deadly
Very adept in the use of soft plastics, hard bodied lures and jigs, Mike started off by dancing white bucktail jigs across the reef floor. The resident roi found them irresistible and Mike landed 6 before a monsta roi broke off his last jig. Unfortunately Mike had released these invasive destroyers of reef fish before I could text him: Kill Them All!
$18/pound in the fish market!
The following day, Mike pulled out a large Bomber Badonk-A-Donk plug, so named because it swims like shapely woman swishing her behind. He proved that Big Baits = Big Fish and landed this 4lb moana kali, breaking his rod in the process. Even though he realized how valued that fish was, he released it, not wanting to impact the local fishery.
Maui lizard fish
Here are two other pics of Badonk-a-donk caught fish. Mike found that the suspending model worked better than the top water model on the Maui fish.
Maui kaku
Both the lizardfish and the kaku really wanted that sashaying Badonka!
A well retrieved lure can be very effective, especially if the fish aren’t used to seeing it. Sure hope I have a fraction of Mike’s luck soon.
Update: Here’s the Bomber Badonkadonk’s Mike used. 1/2 oz – 3/4 oz top water and slow sinking models
nice story
Do you know what color bomber it was? I have been thinking about investing in one. Mahalo plenty!
Hi Morgan,
Mike supplied a few more pics of his Maui catches with the Badonk-a-donk Suspending lure hanging out of their mouths. I’ll put them up soon.
Mike will also send a pic of the lure in its original package – stay tuned!
thanks,
scott
Sorry Morgan, I had forgotten to update this post with the color of lures Mike had used. Please see the post again. It’s kind of a rainbow trout pattern in both the Top Water and Slow Sinking models.