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| Fishing Pictures |
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| Skip Back in time for a second to 2001. |
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| 2001 K-Mart Fishing Tournament First Place for the "Ulua" category was $1000 |
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| For this tournament, I joined my friends Wayne and Quintin (on right in photo) inside Hanakapiai. I had not caught anything good so far and this was the final night. |
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| No Bites yet. |
| There was a lot of sand on the beach and we were able to get around onto the rocks to the left of the beach. I managed to catch some bait including a couple of big Kupipi. I was using my then newly constructed, home-made ulua pole with 25# test line on a 3/0 reel. Not much action at first. Something took my first bait so then I slid another big Kupipi before it got dark. The papios beat it up pretty good and I brought it up early in the night and it had choke teath marks. It was my last bait so I slid it back out but it only floundered on the surface. |
| The moon went down and at about 10:00 pm, I was half asleep when the pole finally took a hit from this ulua. It took 45 minutes to get it in and it rubbed on the reef at one point. I guess I needed a fish that big just to be able to eat my bait as it was a big bait. |
| About 30 pounds. My first respectable ulua from shore. |
| It swam around in the tide pool for the rest of the night and we hiked it out in the morning. It went 28 lbs at the weigh-in but it was a good contest with lots of big ulua coming in. My never even made last place. 10th place was a 35 pound ulua. |
| This was in the morning. |
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| Also during that same summer: |
| Me and my Dad, Dave Barca, got a good fight out of this 55 lb Ulua on my dad's boat outside of Lahaina, Maui. It was so strong that we had to tag team it. I think we caught a couple of good sized Mahimahis as well. And then on our next trip out, I happened to hook into this sailfish. It bit a live opelu in only 125 feet of water outside of Oluwalu, Maui. After a 45 minute fight on 25# test line and no leader, we got it to boat. We estimated it to weight about 70 pounds but to our surprize, it weighed only 44 pounds on the resturant's scale. Still my biggest fish to date at the time. We caught a couple of good sized Mahis on that trip as well. |
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