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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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May 23, 2011 - 10:33pm PT
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Bones, permit, tarpon, snook and big barracuda. Miles of flats, few people.
Yeah, if you add tropical drinks to that equation at night, you have prolly found paradise.
Snook is a real cool gamefish. Good eatin' too!
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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May 23, 2011 - 10:45pm PT
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I forgot to add "miles of flats, few people and one bartender"
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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May 24, 2011 - 03:24pm PT
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I've had success in Hawaii blind casting for bones. As you move down the chain to the Big Island where I usual am, the islands get younger and younger and the "flats" deeper and deeper so sight-fishing is tough.
Put on something with weighted eyes, use that wind at your back to roll out a 100' cast, then strip it in sooooooo slow. Little nudge, let it sit, repeat. If you feel any resistance, do a quick hard strip set. Sometimes you'll just hook up a rock or coral, every now and then you'll be on one of those little racehorses.
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Chief
climber
The NW edge of The Hudson Bay
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May 24, 2011 - 03:57pm PT
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NICE FISH!
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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May 24, 2011 - 04:20pm PT
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OK since it is just us talking I'll tell you about my first Hawaii bonefish. I was walking the beach down at A-Bay on the Kona side of the Big Island. There was a guy out at the end of the little jetty-like thing that feeds water into and out of the ancient fishpond. He had a bag of wonderbread and a bow and arrow with a spool of fishline attached to the arrow. Said that there had been a big ulua (trevally that grow to 100lbs) cruising the shore the last few days. He'd throw the wonderbread out, the reef fish would be all over it and it would hopefully attract the attention of the ulua. When it came slashing through, he'd nail it.
I'm watching the fish chomping down on the bread and realize that some are nice 7 - 10lb bonefish in the mix! I drag a few Charlies through but there is zero interest. The guys says "why don't you cut all those feathers off that hook and use some bread". OK! I do it. Make a wonderbread doughball, mush it on the hook, drop it down and immediately a big bonefish grabs it and heads for Japan. Three sizzling runs later I have that bad bone on the beach. The picture looking down at a bonefish and my foot a page or so back is the very fish I got in this story.
For the climbers reading this, that is about the moral equivalent of using an extension ladder to get up the Stigma.
By the way, it turns out Oahu has some great flats with bonefish so big they look like sharks. Send me a note if you are ever heading over there and I'll tell you my favorite spots and tides.
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labrat
Trad climber
Nevada City, CA
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May 24, 2011 - 05:59pm PT
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More trout please! Pictures?
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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May 24, 2011 - 06:38pm PT
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nice fish ron - out of pyramid?
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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May 25, 2011 - 01:13pm PT
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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May 25, 2011 - 01:16pm PT
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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May 25, 2011 - 01:19pm PT
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Roughster
Sport climber
Vacaville, CA
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May 27, 2011 - 08:06pm PT
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Here is a nice 20" Koke I picked up out at Berryessa a few weekends back.
I managed to talk my daughter into drifting at the Alameda Rock wall in Bay on a tandem kayak last weekend. We ended up with a baby halibut.
I have been digging the kayak fishing just as much as climbing as of late. I know, a sin :)
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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May 31, 2011 - 12:44pm PT
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Hey Ron:
When did you catch all those brookies at Carmen (Kirman) Lake?
The 5 1/2 is shaped like a football!
What year was that?
Nice catch!
Thinking of going up there in a few weeks
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Hawkeye
climber
State of Mine
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May 31, 2011 - 02:16pm PT
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edit: why did these pics post so small?
because some of yoru fish were so big earlier!
nice thread guys. those goldens are huge Ron!
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BooDawg
Social climber
Butterfly Town
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May 31, 2011 - 02:30pm PT
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I posted these on Sheridan's thread, but since he wrote a book on fly fishing, here is one of him and another of one of his drawings.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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May 31, 2011 - 11:31pm PT
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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Hey Ron;
Awesome brookie from Kirman! I heard those fish eventually die of heart attacks from high cholesterol as the result of eating too many scuds.
That's the biggest golden I've ever seen from the eastern sierra!
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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caught this beauty at lake perris yesterday
photo by bob gaines
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Hawkeye
climber
State of Mine
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Bob,
did you catch that guy on a fly? thats a hell of a lot of fun!
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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Yep, got it on a tiny nymph. A 15 lb carp will put up a dam good fight!
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Hawkeye
climber
State of Mine
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Jun 15, 2011 - 05:18pm PT
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a bass-perch! baerch? pass? weird.
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