Flyfishing inshore in Kona

[mems]

https://imgur.com/a/Q3OXrYb

Makani Chritiansen asked me if I wanted to fish Kona with him. Went over yesterday and hit a spot only to find a school of pup Blacktips at one of my bonefish spots. So I cast and got one of them. Pretty lucky with no wire.

https://imgur.com/a/7HGqsB6

It put up a good little fight.

https://imgur.com/a/tXgSPVk

Got a small Awa, milkfish on the same fly. Hadn't caught one in a while so that was pretty cool.

Went to another spot and saw more bonefish but they were finicky.

Makani is back there today hoping for better results.

[Tony Buzolich]

Way to go Don. Black tip on a bonefish fly and a milkfish too. That was a fun day :)
Aloha, Tony

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Use to be pretty rare to be able to catch a Milkfish on a fly in the 1980s.


I see that many have been working on this for years now.


Dr Stanley Inouye of Sacramento use to tie up a green spun deer hair fly in the 1980s to try for Milkfish.


Back in the 1980s I actually caught a Milkfish in the mouth on a bonefish fly on Christmas Island. It was alone, over the side of a flat

and I thought it was a bonefish until I landed it.



At Christmas Island when the tide was very high it was fun to watch a half dozen dark 50#+ Giant Trevally come up on the flats and

beat up the big schools of ~5#+ Milkfish. To me they always look like a pack of dark wild pigs..........

[dynaflow]

They're called "the fish of a thousand casts" for a reason....