Veterans Day... bones in the skinny

[Tightlines667]

After years of thinking about it, I finally tore myself away from the workbench and headed out to one of Oahu's shoreline-accessable flats on Veterans Day.  I spent 4 hours wading and sight fishing for Bonefish around the low tide.  I don't have a suitable fly rod so I used an 8.5' Okuma travel rod, w/Stella 4000SW.  I used small split shots, or casting bubbles married to locally tied bonefish flys.   I had shots at over a dozen bones, but no takers.  I switched to a crystal minnow and caught 3 Papio, 1 Weke, 1 Roy, and lost a nice fish to the reef after a pretty good blistering run.  I also had a few cute ~4' Black-tip a Reefs come and pay me a visit.  All in all a pretty enjoyable way to spend an afternoon.  I may have to give this spot and stalk style fishing another go.

[Shark Hunter]

Great pics John!
That looks like a perfect spot to Kayak some baits out!
I am going to make it a point to go fishing on Veteran's Day next year.

[DaBigOno]

Thanks for the report John!


Look like stay raining mauka side... And sunny makai side.

[foakes]

Great report, John --

How appropriate to be able to do this on Veterans Day -- a day honoring the service and sacrifice all Veterans have made -- allowing us to have days such as these, to freely enjoy our pursuit of happiness.

Thank you,

Fred