Kauai Part 2 - "Morning Recons"

[Latimeria]

Next morning woke up to howling wind and lowering tides.  The bartender was telling me the reef goes out really far and fishing isn't too good, but I grabbed my rod and my wife after breakfast and went scouting the beach.



First off, the reef was wicked between the lava rock and the coral.  This is not like SoCal surf fishing. Another thing, no sea-weeds anywhere, but plenty of wood!  I mean WOOD!



All of it was moving with the waves so you couldn't stand too close if a set was coming in just in case it lifted a tree trunk and dropped it on your foot!  No Joke!

Finally came across someone set fishing but it was weird.  They were using the long rods, but you couldn't cast out too far, so they were lob casting it 50 feet.  They also set the rods up high on the beach and let the line slope down from the tip straight into the sand as they walked over it.  Multiple times I watched them dive in to free their gear from the reef which seemed even more weird with this outfit.





On the way back, my wife goes Look!  I turned to the last thing I thought I would ever see on a Hawaii beach....  Seal!  Monk Seal to be exact!  This is quite the rarity and the old zoo keeper in me got a kick of it wiggling up the beach to us.







Damn thing wasn't afraid of anything... Still a cool sight.

I had 4 swings and misses.  I was throwing a 1-1/2 oz metal jig but couldn't get any of them to stick.  I had to reel in fast since it was only 1-2 feet with the reef and the water was all turgid from the wind and waves.  I wound up losing both jigs, so called it for some more resort time with the wife.

Signs all over said Don't feed the wildlife... and here's my wife...





I guess to be fair, they were only wild chickens.... unless the Myna Birds, Doves, and other assorted random birds count.  lol

Next few mornings, I tried using the 2" gulp sand worm and smaller Kastmasters (3/4 to 1 oz) just to get on the board!





Two little nibbles.... Not what I was expecting.



Tried to go big with a 2oz Kastmaster also...  Only had some huge Trumpetfish chase it in, but would never commit.





Found some cool Beach Huts made by people with great taste!





Otherwise, I was just checking out reefs and reef critters since the reefs loved what I was offering as lures go.











There's 4 of these darters or gobies in this picture.  I found a ton of micro-life.



The beaches were filled with "Wood", but also a ton of "Hairy Nuts".



Everywhere I went, there was some c*ck staring at me.  I'm still astounded by all of the chickens here!



Everytime I came back to have breakfast with the wife, I'd check the private field.  It always had a few Nenes!  We had some Nenes at the Wild Animal Park and were the coolest geese.





Well, I'm done tonight.  I'm supposed to start work tomorrow, but I feel like I'm listening to things underwater and just having a rough time with the Rona.....  Oh well, Next installment tomorrow I suppose.  I have to catch a fish, right?

[vdisney]

Hope you feel better soon Tom

[Tim524]

 Those conditions look pretty rough over there, hope you redeemed yourself and caught something cool.

[Pinoyfisher]

"The beaches were filled with "Wood", but also a ton of "Hairy Nuts"."
You sure you wasn't at Black's Beach?!!

[Latimeria]

"The beaches were filled with "Wood", but also a ton of "Hairy Nuts"."
You sure you wasn't at Black's Beach?!!

You should have seen all of the c*cks running in and out of the bushes!  lol