Hoshi na…
I want one…

good morning. 7 am thursday morning. junky surf on the north shore again. cleaner than yesterday but still junky. town is almost flat. i seen some knee high sets yesterday when we were diving but today looks even smaller. perfect for diving again but my body is saying “no.” umm, what should i do today? i know what i should do. start working on go-naminori web magazine vol. 3. hey, if you know anybody that deserves to be interviewed, or have any ideas of what you want in vol. 3, please let me know. this magazine is for you and we want to feature what you want. the magazine can only get better and better because now we got the system down and know what our readers want to read. once again, thanks for the comments. i appreciate every single one of them…. have a nice day!!!
oh, just seen a waist high set at bowls, ummm, maybe go for a stand-up paddle session today. see you in the water…

when i wake up, the first thing i do is check the surf. if everywhere was junk or small, the next thing is check the diving conditions. north winds? flat waves? i call up kyle, and we go diving. pretty simple because i know kyle is up early doing the same thing.. haha…

north wind days are cold. we were freezing all day long. but when the sun comes out, it feels like paradise…

nothing beats coming into the city lights at night. the fun part is ending a great day. the not so fun part is washing the boat up in the cold…

my friend shinsuke matsukawa has been giving me the reports from the mentawai’s. this was bankvault’s yesterday. wow, i’m kind of jealous…. hope you get some good waves matsu. keep me posted!!! and wanna join our mentawai trip in april??? let me know….

good evening. today started out slow. i checked a hole where almost every time i hit, i get a big kumu. today? nothing. i was bummed so we moved on to another spot. i call it the “Hit and Miss” spot because sometimes i spear a lot, and sometime i spear nothing. today i didn’t see any sharks there so the fish were all over the place. today was a “HIT”…..

a surfers dream would be getting barreled at pipeline.
a divers dream would be great catch like this.
i swam around 1.5 hours and caught dinner for a week…

this is what you call a trophy fish. a kumu over 3 lbs is like finding a pot of gold. if i see a 100 pound GT and this kumu swimming together, i’m going for the kumu. i’m guessing 4 lbs on this one? here’s how i got him. i dove down 70′ in shark infested waters. i dropped down to the bottom and waited about 3 minutes until this big kumu came out of the hole. i was going on 4 minutes underwater but i wanted him so bad so i waited and waited. i wanted to make a gyotaku print so instead of spearing him, i grabbed him with my bare hands. that’s why there is no spear mark. i fought and fought with him all the way up. i threw him in the boat and that was it…. boy, what a day….
by the way, i hid the background of this photo because i don’t want any divers going to my secret kumu grounds. when we divers see a photo of a good fish being caught, we look good in the background so we can figure out where it is. because i’m so nice, i will give you a hint. it’s somewhere in honolulu….

kyle stalked and stalked the mu’s. if you don’t know what a mu is, a mu is the hardest fish on the planet to spear. they have a brain smarter than ours. if you can spear a mu, you are either lucky, or dam good. kyle is dam good. he outsmarted the mu by catching a tako first, then cutting it up to bring the mu in. he hid behind a ledge, and speared a great dinner….

a long day ending up coming in with the honolulu city lights. i’m so dam tired but feel so dam good. just another great day in paradise….
**by the way, i made up the story about my kumu. it was sleeping in 5′ deep water. haha….