Don’t put away your papio gear yet! There’s still lots of catchable oama and the larger papio are still hunting them.

Elias, who had shared his unbelievable 34lb shibi land based catch of a lifetime, was fishing the West Side from the rocks, throwing into rough water estimated at about 15ft deep. He was popping a bubble with trailing Automatic Fly he won in drawing 2 years ago. when he hooked into a screamer.

The beautiful omilu went 5.2 lbs on his digital scale and had recently gorged on oama. You can see the Automatic Fly on the fish below the spinning reel. Looks like the electric blue of an omilu yeah?

I’ve never seen more than 1 oama in the stomach of a fish, and Elias’ fish had 3, so that omilu must’ve been one heck of a hunter.

So get out and fish the uncrowded beaches while the fish are still within reach!