Mike from Florida, whom I met through this blog, is vacationing with family on the west side of Maui.

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!

 

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.

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

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