With all these awesome reports coming from Oman I've been dying to lay into some Ulua's! Had only one day off in the past week and a half and we made it count.
These pics are from last tuesday when fellow forum member Nathan Tsao came down for his birthday to fish with myself and my buddy brian. we fished from 7am -4pm and it was a record day for our boat. A total of 18 strikes with 11 fish boated, 10 uluas and one mahi mahi all caught with locally made lures by our buddy and fellow forum member Ladd Yoshimura and Vinh Ngyun. Also Mahalo to Jeffery Villafania from kona who was nice enough to let us test some of his lures on Oahu. We had two doubles and one almost triple with two guys hooked up and one trying to demolish my lure, he just never stuck! We snapped pe-8 twice on some monsters and some serious beatings were taken by our terminal tackle. For the first time I bent an owner 9/0 jobu with carpenter 350lb split rings and decoy 8/0 treble with the same split ring on the same fish which left me scratching my head but hey thats fishing
. Also owner st76 trebles were straightened on this trip.
There was a lot of the smaller ones coming up and we all lost a big one, but it was an awesome time on the water. The only part that sucked about the trip was Brian and Nathan was putting on a clinic and i was driving, leadering, and taking pics of fish all day but at least I got to bring home some mahi for the family and neighbors lol. The only reason we came in was because we ran out of food and everyone was cramping up lol! Hope to bring some more action this week as we plan to exploit this bite as things are starting to turn on in Hawaii.
To those of you from Australia I just visited Sydney for the first time this past week and I got to say it was a beautiful city and really impressed! Got to bring the family down sometime this year and play tourist.
Aloha,
Charles