Hawaiibassfishing Forum

As strange as this may sound in the past one of my favorite places to fish on the Lake was at the C&C sewage outfall inspite of the chlorine smell because there underneath all thousands of Tilapia that were sucking in the effluent lurks sizable Largemouth Bass. I used to troll my small gold Rapala Ratlin' Raps around in circle just outside the outfall and would consistantly hook into nice sized Largemouths. I was all looking forward to reaching there the last time I was in the Lake which was the first time in over 12 years I fished the Lake on a boat but the outfall was not flowing, and what once was a gurgling brook of treated sewage was now dry and overgrown with grass. Is this outfall now permanently shut down? As smelly as it was it did produce bass for me. MAHALO, Ji

I dont know if I should think of that as a fond memory or the most disgusting Wilson story I have heard.

From what I understand there is a pipe underwater now and lets the water out in deeper water. No more Tilapia schools there.

Your right about those big bass under the school of tilapia. I took a picture of Lance Glassier one day of him holding 10 largemouth and not a one was under 5 pounds. That was in the mid 1970s.

You can still smell that same smell in the area around the outfall. Several years ago a big pipe was installed to take the outfall out into the middle of the lake in deep water. If you look close you'll see the pipe in the back of that cove just to the north (left) of the old outfall. (the chain-link fenced off pipe)

When US Congressman, Ed Case was in office, he tried to get a pipeline built from Waheawa sewage plant down to link up to the Sand Island Plant. Stop dumping into the lake...... I don't know who killed that idea.
(I have been told that the water being pumped into the lake is cleaner than the water already in the lake... honest.)

I bet if you dropped a big old live crawdad down out there in the middle of the lake where the outfall pipe ends.... you'd catch something.

MAHALO for the info guys, I also remember a smaller outfall on the North Fork towards Whitmore Village almost a waterfall if I recall and also with Tilapia, is that one still there?

Ahnkochee wrote:MAHALO for the info guys, I also remember a smaller outfall on the North Fork towards Whitmore Village almost a waterfall if I recall and also with Tilapia, is that one still there?

I don't know, but that's where I used to fish almost every weekend when I was a kid. Caught a lot of bass and catfish over there. Nowadays, there's no trail so I can't go anymore. I won the Tilapia Derby in 1985 by fishing there and then transporting my catch via TheBus to Kemoo Farms for the weigh-in! Good Times!

I remember those tournaments. Thousands and thousands of tilapias were hauled in. Stringers of fish longer that a person was tall. Whitmore Village out fall isn't there any more. The fish were so thick you could hardly drive the boat through there. I think that may have been one of the reasons for the tournament.... to get rid of the tilapias. (now we need more tilapia to feed the bass)

Wish I still had some of those pictures from back then.
Stan

There's a simple solution to that...recreate the sewage outfall

Hey Stan...just wondering...

Is the Ala Wai brackish? You think the peacock can survive in brackish water? There are lots of tilapia in the Ala Wai

Ken wrote:Hey Stan...just wondering...

Is the Ala Wai brackish? You think the peacock can survive in brackish water? There are lots of tilapia in the Ala Wai

Not Stan but nope Tucs are strictly freshwater and the Ala Wai is on the saltier side of brackish due to direct tidal influence and low stream flow. What would be cool is if they brought over a couple thousand Snook and Tarpon fingerlings from Florida and let them go In Kaneohe Bay and Pearl Harbor, and sure why not a few in the Ala Wai canal too, I can dream can't I?

Ahnkochee wrote:

Ken wrote:Hey Stan...just wondering...

Is the Ala Wai brackish? You think the peacock can survive in brackish water? There are lots of tilapia in the Ala Wai

Not Stan but nope Tucs are strictly freshwater and the Ala Wai is on the saltier side of brackish due to direct tidal influence and low stream flow. What would be cool is if they brought over a couple thousand Snook and Tarpon fingerlings from Florida and let them go In Kaneohe Bay and Pearl Harbor, and sure why not a few in the Ala Wai canal too, I can dream can't I?

I'm dreaming with you at the same time...don't forget the red drum, permit and jack crevalle

The numerous mangroves growing in both Kaneohe Bay, and Pearl Harbor is the perfect nursery environment for Snook & Tarpon to grow, sheesh if they released some into Kaelepulu Pond (Enchanted Lake) where I live I'd be ecstatic.