Hit or Miss?

February 18, 2010

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….