After more than a decade back in Hawaii, Tara and I have quit our jobs and joined the Peace Corps.
For real.
Continue readingAdventure is out there, so why am I in here?
Author: Adam
Superfly Variation
This past season, Makani Christensen over at Fly Fishing Hawaii / Keawe Adventures has been developing his “Superfly” pattern. It has proven effective on the Winter and Spring bonefish, which can be frustratingly selective in what they will and won’t eat on any given day.
Personally, my go-to fly when the bonefish are being picky is any type of small, brown crab pattern. I had a number of very effective flies tied up at one point but I recently discovered, to my horror, that I was down to the last one, and I didn’t have the material to tie more!
Photo-Op
It’s hard to believe we will be leaving Hawaii in just a couple of months! (More about that later.) Tara has been looking through some old photos and noticed that we didn’t have any good pictures of one of the iconic features of Oahu: Koko Head Crater and the Ridge over Hanauma Bay.
Adventures in Bonefishing
Last year I wrote about my first bonefish of 2022. The story was published in the March issue of Hawaii Fishing News. For those that missed it, I have now made the article available on my blog:
Continue readingFirst Fish of the New (Lunar) Year
The first fish I landed in 2023 was a goatfish, a weke pueo (here is another, better photo of one). The common name for the species is “nightmare weke,” so I didn’t necessarily feel super good about that as a starting point for the year. I did land a couple of small papio after that, which was some consolation, but as hard as I tried I just couldn’t seem to land that first bonefish of the New Year.
Continue readingThe Spit Shrimp
A couple of years ago I wrote a post about fly fishing from a boat, with a nod towards SUP fishing at the end. In that post I briefly covered the importance of weighting a fly properly, basically that fishing from a drifting boat in deeper water generally requires heavier flies. This weekend I spent a couple of hours on the flat and was inspired to revisit this idea in a little bit more depth. (See what I did there?)
Continue readingSightseeing
Some days you catch fish and some days you don’t. Even when I don’t catch fish I often really enjoy my time on the water. There is so much to see out there, if you stop and look.
Getaway
The bonefishing has steadily improved with the onset of summer in Hawaii. Two weeks ago Ed picked me up before sunrise and we headed out to look for tailing fish. We found those, and a bunch more. The conditions were almost perfect and we had the flats almost completely to ourselves. I hooked seven bonefish that day, and Ed must have hooked eight or nine.
Despite the fishing excitement close to home, the real perk for me recently was sneaking away one afternoon during a work trip in Texas to look for carp.
Continue readingThe Importance of Play
It has been a busy Spring for me and fishing time has not been abundant. The scarcity has reminded me of the importance of play, which can apply to anything you enjoy doing, not just to fishing. It is easy, at least for me, to let my mind get captured by the idea of “progress,” of achieving goals, but I think that real enjoyment comes not from accomplishment, but from the doing itself.
In The News
Back in January, after several intense weeks at work, I finally got out on the water for my first full day of fishing of 2022. I really wanted to catch my first bonefish of the year, and I did. It was a 3-4 pound fish that bit my small mantis shrimp fly on the edge of the flat. But before that, something crazy happened!
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The Fishing Dojo 