…at least at my spots.  I didn’t want to accept the possibility that the bigger predators aren’t hunting inside the reef anymore so I took my board out during the high tide to fish a previously productive spot.  I had even less action than yesterday’s low tide evening session.  A few pulled baits and some kaku bites.  One 7 inch omilu.

What an odd El Nino papio season it turned out to be.  The oama came in later than normal and were skittish during the stormy, humid period.  The papio caught inside the reef were weak and skinny like they were treading water in a sauna too long.  Then the storms passed, the strong trade winds returned, and the inshore water cooled.  New oama swam in, and bigger than normal papio began hunting them.  The inshore fishing was fabulous for a few weeks and then it came to a dead stop.  Although there have been reports of straggler oama piles around, the papio aren’t bothering to make the swim in.  I wonder what triggers them to hunt inshore and then suddenly stop.

Guess we can return to our normally scheduled Fall lives.