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Fishing Reports
"Amateur Maneuver"
June 07, 2006
Posted by Stan Wright
Email: stanwright@hawaii.rr.com
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I first met Dean Shirota on
a trip to Christmas Island.
He's always willing to share
his knowledge and love of
fly fishing. I learned a
lot. The following is an
email I got this week from
Dean telling me about all
the fun I missed by passing
up a morning bonefish trip
here on Oahu.
"There was a slight tide
coming in and I was thinking
the fish would start to tail
pretty soon. In about 15
minutes the tails started
popping out of the water. We
stalked tails for a while
but the sun was in a weird
angle so was hard to see. I
decided to head out towards
the deeper channel. At this
one spot I made one blind
cast and hooked into a huge
fish. Man this thing took
off and eventually cut me
off in the breakers. It must
have ripped off over 150
yards of line. After that I
decided to go back into the
shallows and try to sight
fish again. On the way in I
saw a tail pop out nearby
and made a cast. I stripped
once and the fish grabbed
the fly. The fish took off
and as I was clearing my
line the last section looped
around the reel. Not wanting
to cut the fish off I
started running in the water
and tried to take the loop
off. Somehow I dropped my
rod and reel and the fish
was taking it out water
skiing. I ran to catch up to
the rod, picked it up,
untangled the loop, fought
the fish and eventually
landed the 30 inch 10 lb+
fish. Man talk about a
major "amateur maneuver"."
As you can see, fishing
with Dean is always
an "adventure". You should
see the picture of the two 8
pound octopus that.......
well, that's another story
for another day.
Aloha,
Stan
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