i’m hoping hook up with him the next time i’m up there. I also got an e-mail from my buddy chris from the california fly shop. the report from him was that the rise was again not as good as the falling tide. the energizer bonefish guy that he is hooked up with kai and fished the afternoon too. they were out of the water by noon as tom had to dig out for the mainland and poor craig had to go to work this evening. tom got his farewell for now bonefish and the other guys got their usual fill of bonefish on the falling tide. So they went out today again and from what i’ve heard the results were quite similar. i politely excused myself from another dawn patrol session by saying, “no way!” tom had some time to fish before he left today so the boyz decided to hit it again this morning. Oddly enough while craig, e.t., and i were chillin’ at the shop yesterday, craig’s friend tom from oakley showed up. who’s next?īonefishing hawaii & fly fishing across the sea: He’s all right and ready to take on the next challenger. the saving grace is that if you truely love the sport of fly fishing, you’ll never go home a loser.Ĭraig brought his “a” game and got this guy to fall for a pink charlie like fly. anyway in the game of hawaii bonefish, you can’t win them all, you can only work hard to win most. well we all know the ending of that story. it makes me concentrate harder and dig deeper into the bag of tricks and if you don’t bring your “a” game. the difference between one and none can be as small as one errant cast. i like these types of days on the water best as these are the days when the stakes of the game are the highest. i was stoked for craig as i could tell from the first fish i made a “good” presentation to that it was going to be one of those one or none tester days and i wouldn’t have been surprised at all if we didn’t catch any of the fish we were seeing. i, on the other hand, made more poor shots than i normally make and pretty much got what i deserved (big bolos). it was a good fish that fought bigger than it’s size. craig managed to get a bonefish on a small pink crazy charlie like fly. We took our time moving slowly across the reef taking shots at fish when the opportunity arose. the tide was good and there were some fish around but they were very skittish, perhaps because of the activity on the water or maybe because the wind had dropped a notch. all out having fun and taking advantage of what we all endure the high cost of living for. there were kayakers, paddle boarders, swimmers, surfers, dunkers, divers and even a little boat taking kids for a ride. the day was a typical beautiful hawaii summer day and there was no shortage of people out enjoying it (how can you blame them?). now the guy will walk around with switch rod in hand while wicked sets roll in on the outside. this guys got the bug for sure, before he would have never called me to fish during a bombing south swell. So today rolls around and i went out to hi kai with surfer boy craig. anyway deano finally got a switch rod into e.t.’s hands and we may have another believer. he’s a bit more technologically advanced than this old goat. well he's e.t.! deano posts some pretty cool stuff online. deano’s one of the best fly fishers in hawaii and e.t. you can check that whole story out on deano’s blog. that they ran into each other on the flat on saturday. still far from, but hopefully a couple hours closer to, the perfect cast. although the tide was way up and the fish were not around, it was another fun evening with dean and more practice with the switch rods. I spent a very pleasant friday evening at hickam fishing the pau hana (finish work) session with deano.
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