Wanted: Shorefishing Info--Please

[SaltyFish]

I am looking to start fishing around the lake. I dont have a boat and I am not to familiar with the surrounding area.
So, if anyone wouldnt mind sharing their secrets....where can I park and fish? What techniques for getting live bait? What jigs? Anything I should know before I go and for while I am there? And last but not least, where do I buy my license?
Sorry for so many questions, but I am new to the area and I am going crazy without fishing and I finally have a car to get me there...
Any help, advice,etc. will be greatly appreciated and used with respect.
Salty

[Stan Wright]

I have a map of the lake on the web site. I think you can print a copy. Your more than welcome to, or I can email you a file you can print.

Lots of fish are caught around the Wahiawa Freshwater Park. Right there at the boat ramp. red devils and peacock bass hang around there. I see lots of guys at Rose Street Slough (#1 on the map) I also see people fishing at #11, and between #10 and #13. just accross from Schofield Bks. There is a lake access at #18 at the north end of Kemoo Farm right beside the Military Tenting place. A good place for live bait. I would fish that point at #20. You'll need a street map to find the entrance to the point. Just hop over the gate in the chain link fence. LOL Yesterday I saw a guy fishing Morgans pt (#24) from shore . I don't know if he drove or hiked in through the pineapple field.

I catch my live bait in Kailua, fut just about any small stream has bait. I hear lots of guys these days ar buying feeder fish at the pet store. Gold is good. LOL

Peacock bass work the shoreline, so keep your live bait in close where you can see it. ( or just deep enough that you can't quite see it. ) You'll probably see the fish moving along. Sometimes a floater will keep your bait a foot or two under the water , but not let them get down into the brush or roots and tangle the hook. The last month or so around Morgans Pt. the action was within "inches" of shore as the peacock bass chased the baitfish right up onto dry land. If your bait was 3 or 4 feet from shore you were making a "long" cast.

Just about any lure that works for largemouth will work for peacocks. Think small, and work it fast.

You can get a fishing licence at most sporting or fishing stores. Also on line. I have a link on the web site. Cost is $5 and the entry permit to the lake is free.

Aloha,
Stan