The fish are big, toothy, and have a lot of energy to make blazing fast runs. SHOREFISHING TECHNIQUEįishing the ocean is much different than catching trout at your favorite lake or stream in the mainland. Image may have been resized or cropped from original. This is my opinion of course, but few would disagree these are all great eating fish!Ī local guy, George ‘Keoki’ Stender, has a great site, “” that lists many native Hawaii fish and other wildlife if you want to see some great photos.įishing! by Mark is licensed under CC BY 2.0. The best tasting fish in Hawaii are the ono, maona, snapper, grouper, and mahi-mahi.
Personally, I love the taste of the firm meat of the smaller jacks! Jacks have a strong taste that is not for everyone. However, I really enjoy the smaller papio.
Locals will eat them, but the biggest fish are the oldest fish and I’m too worried about high levels of mercury and other poisons in them to eat them. Keep a loose drag for the runs! The big ulua are not great eating.
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The little papio are also great fun to catch, a fifteen pound jack trevally is packed full of energy and will do amazing runs, smoking your reel and breaking your line if you’re not ready for it. If you’re on the rocky cliffs while fishing, you’re going to need a gaff on a rope or be able to climb down to water level to hoist the fish out. The big ulua are heavy and require a lot of strength and persistence to get them in to the shore. The big ones are around 180 pounds and they are great fighting fish, even the smallest ones are a blast to catch on light tackle. The most exciting fish to catch, in my opinion, is the ulua, Caranx ignobilis.
There are some regulated fishing areas that you must know about before you grab your rods and tackle. You’d probably be surprised at the few rules for shore fishing in the islands. FISHING RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR HAWAII SHOREFISHING? I’ve spent many nights drinking with friends on the cliffs at Makapu’u and other places around the islands. One of my favorite past-times is Hawaii shorefishing. Swordfish is also great tasting fish barbecued with shrimp and… OK, look, I’m getting off-topic here with all this food talk. It means best! They are my favorite fish to eat by far. They are excellent eating and just about every sit-down restaurant in on the islands offers mahi in a sandwich or presented in some other mouth-watering dish.Īnother amazing fish is the Wahoo ( Acanthocybium solandri). It is probably going to be one of your favorites like it is mine. If you’ve never had a mahi sandwich – put it on your list of ‘must eat dishes’ in Hawaii. One need only take a kayak out from the West side near Kaena Point and jump off with a spear in schools of mahi-mahi ( Coryphaena hippurus) – one of Hawaii’s most delicious tasting fish. Hawaii is surrounded by the Pacific Ocean in an area of the world that still holds large numbers of many kinds of fish. You shouldn’t be able to run out of things to do, there is just too much, but you might run out of the typical things you usually do. There are so many physical activities you can do outdoors in Hawaii during a vacation, or as a permanent resident, but you might run out of things to do after a while if you’re adventurous.
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