Aloha!

Thanks everybody, the weather is pretty great, gotta say I do have a twinge of homesickness everyonce in a while. Until my sister sends pics of 101 underwater and the rivers looking like chocolate milk, makes 78 and sunny much more palatable

Meet any other Kayak anglers yet?

Met up with a few of the guys from aquahunters, really awesome group down here. Everybody is super helpful, and there are some amazing fishermen who post there. The learning curve is pretty steep, but I'm slowly getting an idea of what I'm doing. If anybody finds themselves on Oahu, gimmie a shout, I've got plenty of gear and an extra kayak or two laying around.
Jonah

Aloha JATW.. glad to see you catching some fish in hawaii.. we got to do a run sometime.. this year.. my team is down and I will be doing lots of solo fishing.. see ya

Howdy folks, been a while since I've been on the board here, been a busy summer for me. Lots of work, not much fishing. Looking at the calender recently, and got to thinking it's just about my favorite time of year back in the PNW. Cooler weather setting in, coho starting to show up in tidewater, with nooks not far behind them. Grey, foggy mornings, maybe the first frost of the year coming soon. Kinda got a little homesick, so I decided to go fishing to alleviate my reverse seasonal affective disorder....
And landed my first Hawaiian pelagic (from the yak-not counting pb) . Found some birds working within paddling distance, and followed them around until I picked up this nice little 7ish lb yellowfin, shortly followed by a decent sized ono that threw the hook right at yakside. That's my third oppurtunity at an ono, they are hard buggers to get in the boat. Sharp teeth cut through 100lb. mono like butter, stepped up to wire leaders this time, but just didn't get the hooks sunk in deep enough. Hopefully fourth times the charm.
Hope everyone is well up there, good luck and tight lines all!!!

that picture is awesome.  Good to hear from you Jonah!

Thanks everybody, the weather is pretty great, gotta say I do have a twinge of homesickness everyonce in a while. Until my sister sends pics of 101 underwater and the rivers looking like chocolate milk, makes 78 and sunny much more palatable

Meet any other Kayak anglers yet?

Met up with a few of the guys from aquahunters, really awesome group down here. Everybody is super helpful, and there are some amazing fishermen who post there. The learning curve is pretty steep, but I'm slowly getting an idea of what I'm doing. If anybody finds themselves on Oahu, gimmie a shout, I've got plenty of gear and an extra kayak or two laying around.
Jonah

Be careful for what you wish for, people may take you up on it.  Great catches, I am envious! 

Thanks guys. The wind has picked up the last week or so and kept me on the beach, so I thought I'd throw some other random on the water pics up.

Had a buddy move here from MT recently, and was able to get him into a couple nice fish. First is an A'awa, or Hogfish, good sized one with some gnarly teeth to him


Nice mixed plate the next day out with him, a couple of Toau (snappers), Roi (groupers), and two nice Omilu (bluefin trevally). Fish n chips time!


One more shot of my buddy, you can see he's looking over his left shoulder- if I had been a millisecond faster with the camera, you would have seen the 6-7 ft. marlin greyhounding across the water about 50 yds past him. Thought about giving chase, but only for about a second or two.


Nice little Omilu caught on a plug just outside the reef on a perfect flat calm day


Kinda hard to see at this resolution, but this is a pod of dolphins that hung out with me for an hour or two the other morning. Later that day, I had a huuuuge (VW bug-sized) manta ray pay me a visit, flew right under me about 5 ft. below my kayak.


The beginning of the worst squall I've ever had the pleasure to be out in. About 30 seconds after I took this pic, it really opened up and was raining so hard you couldn't see the mountains in front of us any more, and as much water was bouncing back up into our faces as was coming down. Then five minutes later, back to blue skies and a nice light breeze.


Last is this little Lai, or leatherback. Not the smartest fish, this guy bit a completely bare hook, that was dangling in the water next to my kayak.


Anyway, just thought I'd share. There is supposed to be a nice little window coming mid week, hopefully I can take advantage and get back out to deeper waters again.
Aloha,
Jonah

Jonah Nice reports.  Enjoying your posts. 

Is that fish made of an aluminum alloy of some sort? 

Is that fish made of an aluminum alloy of some sort? 

Almost... The Hawaiians used to use their skin to make drum heads, and I use it to make flys for my damashi (herring jigs). Some guys use it to make skirts for trolling lures, too.

Awesome photos.  I have to go to Honolulu for ten days for work between November 7 and 17 (woe is me ).  How would the conditions be during that time of year?

-craig

OMG!  This post just made me so hungry.........

Nice pics Jonah!  Thanks for teasing us with your images of paradise.

-Spot-

Awesome photos.  I have to go to Honolulu for ten days for work between November 7 and 17 (woe is me ).  How would the conditions be during that time of year?

-craig

Hey Craig, that time of year can be a crap shoot weather-wise, it's kinda right at the transition of summer-winter. Winter is the calm time of the year on my (east) side of the island, while the north and west shores start to get the big winter swells. We can get some mirror flat days, or the usual rough trade wind weather. But with ten or so days on the island, there should be some fishable weather somewhere on the island. Gimmie a shout as the time gets closer, maybe we can hook up while you're down here.
Jonah