Hilo Park ?
Hi Don,
That looks just like the park at the mouth of the harbor in Hilo. Watched some kids throwing rubber tube plugs there for cuda a few years ago.
I forgot how the oama come in. Everybody used to fish for them right on the sea wall in Kailua. For those who don't know, oama are small yellow goatfish that seem to swarm inshore during the summer. Every bigger shoreline predator will begin to key in on them and all you need is a small yellow and white clouser for papio or his bigger cousin the omilu (blue fin trevally).
I remember the akule also balled up just off the Kailua pier for weeks at a time during summer. Big jacks would be busting through them all day long.
At the Honokahou Harbor mouth I was able to to take small ulua that were feeding on the akule as well. Throw the biggest popper you can and strip as fast as you can and hold on.
When you'd get slammed even my 11 weight wasn't enough.
Ya gotta love summer on the Big Island
Tony
TONY BUZOLICH
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