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Fishing Reports
Waikiki Barracuda
March 18, 2006
Posted by Stan Wright
Email: stanwright@hawaii.rr.com
Current Report
I think the reason there are
so many barracuda in the Ala
Wai Canal is because the
water is polluted and
everyone is afraid to eat
the fish. Most fishermen
in Hawaii ask, "If you can't
eat it, why catch it?"
Clayton Yee, (Nervous Water
Fly Shop) and I decided to
have a little fun testing
out some of his new
barracuda flys. (with all
the recent rain, Lake Wilson
is muddy, making the
peacock bass fishing very
difficult).
We launched my little 15
foot bass boat near the
Hawaii Yacht Club and headed
to the Diamond Head/Mauka
end of the Ala Wai.
The tide was just starting
to rise and the barracuda
should be aggressive. We
could easily see them in the
clear water as they waited
motionless by the roots of
the mangrove trees ready to
rush out and ambush their
next meal.
Clay chose a chartreuse foam
popping bug and I tied on a
yellow one. We used 12
pound test mono
leaders...... On my last
visit I lost several lures
and flys to those big sharp
teeth. There must be a way
to rig a short wire leader
to a popping bug.
Sometimes 3 or 4 barracuda
would just follow the fly
all the way to the boat. At
other times they would
charge in from 10 feet away
and smash the fly. Clay
hooked a nice 2 pounder and
after a short fight the
leader cut. We could see
the fish swimming away with
the big popping bug hanging
from the side of its mouth.
Then the popper came free
and as it floated to the
surface another cuda hit
it. That one spit it out
and on the surface two more
cuda struck at the free
floating popping bug.....
they were that aggressive.
Needless to say, we had a
very exciting, fun filled
afternoon. We could have
probably landed a lot more
fish if we had used streamer
flys with the wire leaders,
but it is so much more
exciting to see a surface
strike. And since the
barracuda were being so
cooperative, why change?
Aloha,
Stan
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