Other than Farm Blog

On Sunday morning I got down to Waipio valley for fishing at sunrise. I had a good feeling about something big. It's been a few weeks since we got some nice sunny morning. Beautiful sunrise. Great way to start a day. After a few casts on the beach by the river mouth, I got lots of nibbles, but no definitive bites. Finally I pulled one in. To'au, or blacktail snapper. Too small to eat so I let go.     It's always nice to see Hiilawe fall flowing so grand though it could mean more rain on the farm.   I then moved to the other side of Waipio but forgot my camera in the truck, but got three wrasses and moano. And then a BIG FISH hit on my MW plug, which felt like a bullet train that half emptied my spool and snapped my line behand a rock.   One lesson I learned is that what we pay is what we get. I had a cheap reel with not as smooth a drag and mono line was totally damaged near the leader. I totally didnt expect a big fish. Most days the ones that hit MW plu...

  Today was my Kona day so I checked out a new spot by honokohau harbor. I started out on harbor side, and slowly worked my way around to the park. Nice shallow reef structure typically has good feeling for papio, but it was super low tide in the evening so ended up just catching some reef dwellers. at one point honu came right up by my feet and slowly drifted away.   It felt like only 3 feet deep in most area. I could relly feel the egg sinker bouncing on the bottom even with fast retreive. Catch includes moano, goatfish, poopaa, moi etc, but no papio.        

We got much of the summer field maintenance done in the tea fields, thanks to all the helpers. so I took my son along and went fishing.  He is 2 and 1/2 years old.  He is obviously too young to fish by himself so he just stand by my side and watch.  At least he knows how fishing is done.  I'm talking about shore fishing.  Set up gear, cast and reel.  Pretty simple.  He can't cast, so I cast, then he reels in, bit awkward, but since he's my son, he got a natural touch of fisherman.  He thinks casting and reeling is fishing because we haven't caught any. In Hawaii, Papio is a popular game fish.  It's a small Ulua, once it reaches 10lb it's called Ulua.  I spent much of youth fishing in Japan and my college years flyfishing in Sierra Nevada mountains and all over Northern California, catching many little ones and big ones so I know a bit about fishing, but just doing lure fishing with a little kid isn't as easy as one would think.  P...