Flyfishing inshore in Kona

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.

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

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..........

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