I had been meaning to try two new wade fishing spots that looked pretty fishy. One was all the way up in Lai’e and the other was just a couples miles east of a Maunalua Bay spot I fish.
The conditions were good last week to fish the Lai’e spot and I made the 1 hr trek out there. I could only reach the reef patches near shore because the shoreline sloped downward and I was quickly in waist deep water. I ended up with at least twenty 5-inch omilus and a couple small white papio. I was really hoping for something that would pull drag but I just couldn’t reach them with gear I had.
obake weke
Today, the West wind was blowing at 15 mph plus. Not great conditions but the Maunalua Bay spot isn’t too far away so I decided to field test a longer, beefier casting rod. I wasn’t expecting too much out of this popular location but I ended up with a mixed bag of small omilus, a small moana, a thick humuhumu, a kaku that shook the hook and a mid-sized obake weke that had me hoping it was an oio.
All the fish caught at Lai’e and Maunalua Bay were released.
Wading a shallow reef shelf is much easier than reaching a scattered, patchy reef from shore.
I needed to increase the weight I was throwing to load the beefier 8 ft rod, and was getting about the same distance I was getting with my lighter weight/7.5 ft rod setup. More field testing needed.
It’s always fun to fish new spots with new gear. And sometimes you don’t have to travel far to catch fish.
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