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.