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Thread: Flyfishing inshore in Kona

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    Default 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.
    Don Memmer

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    Way to go Don. Black tip on a bonefish fly and a milkfish too. That was a fun day
    Aloha, Tony
    TONY BUZOLICH
    Feather River Fly
    Yuba City, CA.
    (530) 790-7180

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    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..........
    Bill Kiene (Boca Grande)

    567 Barber Street
    Sebastian, Florida 32958

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

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