For those tiring of all Top Water posts, here’s a bit of oama – papio action for you. I took the longboard out during a rare light wind day a couple of weeks ago. Paddled to the break and whipped with a frozen oama. The bite was very slow, in fact, I only got one bite.
I cast into a deep channel staying a safe distance from the waves and hooked something immediately. Felt like a big papio and it pulled me close to the impact zone. Turned out the omilu was foul hooked near its butt hole and was swimming upside down at times! When I unhooked it, it looked like the Owner bait hook had slipped and rehooked him twice and he was sliced up a bit. Not wanting to risk releasing him only to die I kept the 11.75″ (FL) fish and my parents enjoyed it.
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