January through March 2022 had lighter wind than normal. Good for boat and kayak fishing, and keeping mango flowers on the tree. But the wind has been blowing fairly constant April – May – June, into July. Usually passing storm systems break up the trade winds but we’ve have very few of those during this period.

In the last 3.5 months, I’ve only kayak fished twice and basically bolo headed. Not good when I want to test my new St Croix Mojo boat rod and smaller tungsten jigs. The guys shore jigging at reef drop offs have been finding white papio close in, and the guys targeting oio with jig heads/grubs have been doing well also. The nehu and iao are in but meaningful schools of oama have not arrived yet.

August is 2 weeks away and is usually the best month inshore and offshore. Let’s hope some harmless storms peter out north of our islands, and give us a break from the wind.