Hawaiibassfishing Forum

I can't do the ice fishing thing Ken. I just can't. I'm miserable anything much under 55-60 degrees. Feel free to drop in here for some fishing whenever you can. I always like an excuse to wet the lines more. I'm in southwest Connecticut. Montauk in late September is psychotic. Fishing here will be ...

Yeah I know Stan, I gotta get out of here. Every winter I ask myself why I live in a place where the climate is useless for 6 months straight. When the fishing comes, it's very good, but the window of time we get to have on the water isn't large. I am honestly considering a move to the Keys. I would...

That last picture is downright frightening. What a cool story.

I'm bored and we're getting a foot of snow tomorrow. Cabin fever is at its height, so I'll chime in. Can't wait for the bass and blues to get here. I keep it very simple with my rods and reels. Generally, I slap Shimano Stradic spinning reels on St. Croix rods. I have, I believe, a 2500 and 4000 of ...

Hey I've got a question which hopefully the peanut gallery can answer. I'm in the process of looking for a new boat to buy. We live on Long Island Sound in CT, so it will need to do a good amount of saltwater fishing, the vast majority of it nearshore. I also hit the local lakes a lot, so it'll get ...

Here we have bunker. That's the bait.

You chuck a big old treble hook with a weight on it into the school, rip the treble through the water hard until it snags a bunker.

Then you just let the damn thing swim around until something comes and eats it.

No thinking involved.

Ken - good deal. Yeah, just give me a heads up when you'd like to come down and we can set something up. I'm sure you know more about fly fishing than I do, so I'd just have stuff for medium sized gamefish, with lots of backing. And something to stop sharp teeth. I'm sure the standard arsenal of fli...

Ken - yup I'm in New England, Connecticut to be exact. I do 99.9 percent of my fishing from shore, and 99.9 percent of that is artificials. Bluefish - we typically get an early run around Memorial Day. Then the meat of the season is late summer through october. My biggest this year was somewhere aro...

This thread caught my attention, mainly because I'm freezing here in Connecticut and would rather be catching peacock bass. BUT We have a cousin of the peacock over here - stripers. You'd be shocked at the size of the plugs theyll hit. Throwing massive stuff is one of my favorite pasttimes for big b...

To a catch a cuda - Extreme persistence, stubborness. Out at the ala wai I would go for a couple hours, stand in the exact same spot, and throw every single thing I had at them. They hit eventually, and when you found what was working you could get 3-4 in a short period of time. I found that exactly...

bsp, Your reports have been interesting, especially since I had the exact opposite experience when I was in Oahu. I had a tough time not catching barracuda! I wonder if the time of day or time of year makes much of a difference? Thats the only thing I can think of. The only other thing I did differe...

bsp, stan is right on. I had something HUGE nail a popper off ala moana, but that was the only fish i saw there. as for the ala wai, its all where you fish. I didn't catch a damn thing near the mouth, you've gotta go far back inland. There are fish there just for the reasons stan stated; people don'...

bsp Look for Kanapolei (or something like that) Blvd on the hotel side. fish a couple hundred yards on either side of kanpolei. Thats where i had my best luck. If you can try to get your hands on two types of lures: flashy swimmers - like Rapalas and yo zuris, the more colorful the better, and small...

Guys,

I have an article published on flyfish.com right now about bonefishing Oahu. Feel free to check it out. front page.

bsp, The gloves are probably excessive. Ala wai isnt the cleanest place on earth, but if the water was that contaminated, they would have the thing completely shut down. Its funny that you mention this, because I coincidentally got sick a few days after fishing there. I was assured by two local doct...