Hawaiibassfishing Forum

Greetings David,

There's where flexibility is the name of the game.

Sometimes its the artificials, sometimes it's only the Dark Side stuff

It's all fishing.

Bass regards, Mel "Kahuna Bass"
Darkside Live baiter and swim baiter

Greetings David, Glad to see your doing the right thing and going fishing! :wink: I recommend fishing big live baits, deep along the banks. Work them slow and spend time. I believe the bigger fish are holding deeper in muddy water, and will jump on the bigger live baits (5"-7"). Don't be scared of t...

Greetings Boatless, I'm currently in Narita, Japan, just outside of Tokyo. Not to many fishing stores out this way, but much more in Tokyo. Getting ready to head to Pusan, Korea. :shock: It's going to be cold!! Email me closer to your trip and I'll put a list of fishing shops that you should visit. ...

Aloha Stan, It must be tough to have blue skies, sunshine and still have to fight off the rain :lol: At least your catching tucs! By the way, do tucs react just like large mouth bass in the states, when the weather changes, just before a storm, they go on the bite? I would still fish the big baits, ...

Greetings Stan, Gotta love those plastic jerk baits. :D Those are one of my "go to baits", espacially during the summer, when fish are not on the chew. Sometimes ripping them will draw attention, which can cause a chain reaction bites. I also noticed the rod set-up. Low profile and light weight. I'm...

Greetings Gabe, Good to hear your heading back home. Nothing like the warm waters and cool trade winds. Like you, I've been gone too long away from Hawaii. Stan has been telling me fish stories about the great fly fishing for bone fish and Tucs :D . Hoping to be back on the islands this summer, and ...

Greetings all, As Stan mentioned, "pitching and flipping" live bait is a blast. One thing you must remember, you need match the hook with the bait. Most common mistake is either the hook is too big or too small. Fine wire hooks work the best for this application. Tilapia are pretty hardy baits, so m...

Salty dog, I'm impressed. Your only comment/opinion to the site, starts off by saying live baiter have no skill, and should just day dream. So now, you must be the resident expert, of the artificial baits. I guess you have skills? Or, are you day dreaming about your skills? :twisted: Kahuna bass Dar...

Aloha Stan, It looks like you had the chance to wet the line. Stripers are always fun to catch, espacially when they school up like Tucs. It can get really crazy! :twisted: By the way, I noticed your 3:16 swim bait, I hope you didn't pay that much. You can get those wake baits for much cheaper, if y...

Skunked,

Your my hero!!

Excellent reel. I got a couple of the Antres, but not the DC version.

Your becoming a tackle ho!

Kahuna bass
Dark side live baiter
Tackle ho

Greetings Ca_bass, I wish that was my secret bait 8) I've heard stories back in the late 70's and early 80's, where big bass hunters in Southern California, used live stocker trout for bait. Back than, the big girls just went crazy. It surprises me, that every now and than, people will get caught us...

Larry,

Totally awesome!

Not one, but catching 4 small mouths. Excellent. Smallies can really put up a fight.

Kahuna bass
Dark side livebaiter

I need to fish there one of these, hopefully with the new stuff I will pick up at Bass-a-Thon! BSP, Your going to like the Bass-a-thon! Rick Grover, owner of Anglers Marine, set's up the best bass show on the West Coast. Even better, its just bass stuff. Lots of great guest and reps from all the ma...

I believe it, my old tournament partner fishes tournaments there every now and then and tells me how awesome it is, mostly he fishes So Cal tourney though. Ca_Bass, Clear lake is that good! What was more impressive, my buddy caught his 12-7, I was truly amazed, I get bit, and it's my 7-5!! That one...

Exactly Kahuna! Not that I want to eat any tucs or kill them for that matter, but I think people being able to take a limit home if they wanted would produce larger tucs as well. Ca_Bass, Possibilities are endless. It would be great to catch Tuc's over 10 lbs! and add in Florida LMB over 10 lbs too...