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[dennisK]

isnt ulua the same as trevally, or jack?

[fishingbuddha]

yes there are many different species of ulua. in fact mine is classified a papio because it is smaller than ten pounds. these little guys fight awesome and next year when i come back i will definaltely be bringing my fly rod.

anyways, there are a ton of different species to catch in hawaii. i will be going out to the deep this saturday so i will hopefully be posting some more reports after the weekend.


cheers

[fishingbuddha]

here is a great link showing some of the pictures of different maui fish.

http://www.geocities.com/nicolaibarcahuntfishhi/shorefishing.doc

[fishingbuddha]

here are the hawaiin fishing records. check out all the species.

the only negative thing about maui from a fishing perspective is that there are hardly any freshwater fishing.

http://www.hawaiifishingnews.com/records.cfm

[fishingbuddha]

friday,  i went fishing for some halalu. apparently its a cousin to the mackerel. a local friend took me and we caught a bunch. on my last cast, i hooked into something bigger which snapped my main. we figured it was a larger papio because they were pooling around the halalu.

took the halalu we caught and went into the deep to catch some mahi mahi and we hooked and landed one. we also hooked into some other fish but lost them.

great fishing in maui. apparently aside from the halalu being good bait fish, it is also great fried up whole like shishamu (smelt).

fishing in the deep today was quite the experience. all we were using were dead halalu on a number 4 hook. the leader was about 2ft followed by a wire leader with a sliding sinker (1/4 ounce), attached to the main braided line.
we just trolled the fish behind the boat and that was it.

we also tried to bottom fish with some jigging flies but had no luck.

you could definately catch mahi mahi (dorado) with a larger fly rod, although my friend tells me he has hooked into dorado that has snapped his 200 lb leader.

good times.

[adriaticum]

Any crustaceans, snails, shrimp or mussels you find in the water should work.
Even if you take plain bread and put little pieces on the hook you will catch fish.
Fish in the Atlantic like that, should work for Pacific too.

[fishingbuddha]

that concludes my maui summer. next year i am definately bringing my 10wgt and 6wgt fly rods.

[Jaws]

Cool info....now I just need someone to pay for my plane ticket to Maui.