I've been fishing for bonefish with my new reel.
As with fly fishing, there are two basic techniques: sight-fishing and
blind-casting. I've tried sight-fishing but my lures are too light to
cast well. My birthday is at the end of this month and I have my fingers
crossed for some bonefish jigs that are a bit heavier. I spent a couple
of hours blind-casting today with no luck, but towards the end of the
day I switched things up and managed to catch a small papio in the
shallows.
Papio
are fast and always hungry and this little fish got me excited for our
upcoming trip to the Big Island. Naturally, our priority is checking out
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park,
but I'm confident there will be a little bit of time to do some
fishing. The Big Island of Hawaii is geologically much younger than Oahu
so it's coastlines are steep and often rocky. Not ideal for bonefish,
but possibly great for papio.
