My friend Frank, a superb waterman, just started SUP fishing.  He wanted to R&D some of his fishing attachments so we did a little oama trolling.  The wind was initially light but then the rain came through, and strong gusts came with it.  The murky water extended fairly far from shore so it took a while to find clean water.

The first strike came on my weighted frozen oama in a deep channel about 20 ft from the papa edge.  It was a chunky white papio, about 1.75 lbs.

By the time I bagged it and rebaited I was blown off the spot and couldn’t find my way back.  We eventually found cleaner water inside and Frank’s oama, slow trolled over a shallow reef got hit but the akamai fish wrapped himself up in a hole. The wind started gusting over 20 mph and we began to make a run for our launch site.

On the way, Frank’s next oama, under a floater, got pulled down and Frank landed this omilu in the wind storm. I was impressed that he could find an omilu in the murky chop.  We didn’t measure it but it was easily legal.

When we got near our launch spot the wind slowed so we decided to fish upwind of the spot so the next wind storm could blow us in.  Then the rain started pelting us but the fish still bit.

A 10.5 inch omilu bit close to the papa edge.  It hit the back hook and took the oama for a ride. I didn’t have my tags with me so it was released tag-less.

 

 

 

Then the rain starting pelting us and I hooked a slightly better white.  The photo wouldn’t have come out so I didn’t bother taking one.  It was closer to 2lbs.

The forecasted increase in wind came an hr earlier and blew us off the water.

All but the first fish were caught on live oama from my tubs.  I think that’s what made the fish bite on this bad weather day.  The last two unused ones were set free in the murk. Hope they remember how to run from predators.

Frank made sashimi, soup and fried fish with the 2 whites and omilu. Just about everything was consumed by his family except for the bones.