good morning. 6:30am sunday morning. wow, no winds today. it’s been a couple of months since we had a calm morning. still cloudy but who cares. the waves are really clean this morning everywhere. north shore is 3′ with epic glassy conditions. even town has some waves. bowls some spots are chest high with clean conditions. i can finally surf without a wetsuit today. yeah!!! oh, wanted to thank carter and miwa for the awesome barbecue last night. good food and awesome house. and the chocolate fountain for the strawberries? oh my gosh…. i spaced out and forgot to take photos…. shucks… anyway, i’m going to enjoy this windless day in hawaii because i don’t know how long it will last. have a nice day….

nao’s father hand shaped me this killer wooden surfboard for me. must have taken a long time to do because it’s perfect. thanks so much for this special surfboard…

and shin-san and midori-san brought this spice set for me. you add shoyu in each bottle and the ingredients in there makes a unique taste. good for fish… thanks you guys too…..

and glad to see the boys back safely in japan… hi shun and ryota!!!!

good evening. this is how i started my day. woke up early morning to surf the north shore. jumped in my car. no gas?? shit, i forgot to put gas in my car yesterday and it must have just run out. this is the first time since high school. i felt like an idiot… took the portable gas can to the the gas station to get gas. what a shitty way to start off the day. i felt like a loser and almost went back to sleep to start all over. but then i’m glad i drove out…

pulled up to backdoor and the waves were pretty good. actually epic for this year and nobody was around. buoy 1 is broken so nobody knows there’s waves….. it was 3-5′ with some nice barrels….

the sun came out for 10 seconds and everything looked so green and blue…. gosh, it was such a beautiful day out there….

on the way back to town, i always stop over in wahiawa at sunny side. it’s kind of like home cooking, which i love….

i always order the liver/bacon and chicken cutlet combo plate. after i finish eating this, i have a hard time driving home… feel like sleeping…

anyway, off to a barbecue at my friend carters house. taking some fish over…. have a great evening and good night sleep…..

and don’t forget the big UFC fight tonight. chuck liddell vs. wanderlei silva….. it’s going to be NUTS!!!!!

good saturday morning. 7am and the waves look clean on the north shore. 3′ and fun so i’m out of here…. town is small in the knee high range but north shore is the call… the winds backed off but it’s still raining. have a nice day….

just downloaded the photos from yesterday. gosh, this cooler looks full of the same fish we caught 4 days ago. but it’s not. when i first started diving, i took my small cooler and went home with one fish if i was lucky. throughout the years, i learned how certain fish act and how to hunt them. almost every fish is different so there are tricks to lure them in. see that big blue uhu? the uhu’s in town are pretty smart so it’s kind of hard to catch them. this is how i caught this one. it was like 35′ deep so i waited for him to go behind a rock or in a cave and then i dove down on him. i couldn’t see him but as i was going down, he came out of the cave and looked at me. he was tripping out and so was i because he turned to the side and gave me the perfect head shot. i think he was drunk or something because that was too easy….

how did i catch this big kumu? i saw a pile of fish in 15′ deep water. i dove down in the middle and was thinking in my head what shawn told me. he said that he doesn’t see the kumu’s when he first goes down but they just come out of nowhere if you wait. i was waiting patiently on the bottom for about a minute singing “silent night’ in my head. that’s just one of songs i sing in my head while diving. haha. anyway, there were so many fish swimming around me but i just kept on waiting because i could have picked off any fish at any time. just as i was running out of air, i seen this big red kumu swimming up to me. maybe he thought i was santa? he turned 5′ away and i shot him right in the body. i usually aim for the head but i didn’t want to take any chance on losing on of the biggest kumu’s i’ve ever speared so i shot him in the body. grabbed him, and went back to my boat singing “jingle bells”…. i was done for the day…. merry christmas… kind of late but i’m still in the christmas spirit…..[:?????$B!x(B???:]

my brother took his fish, mike took his, we gave some away, and this is the rest for my dinner this week….