Hawaii Kayak Fishing: Huge Yellowfin Tuna at High Noon!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 พ.ย. 2024
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Bait was super tough but luckily my fishing buddy is the Opelu whisperer. After missing a few strikes in the morning, some boater decided to do donuts around us and scare all the bait away. A few hours later, the fish came back and I chummed a bunch of frozen opelu chunks in the hopes of bringing some predators around. It didn't take long before the surface started boiling with bait and pelagic predators...
Kayak: 2015 Hobie Revolution 13 "Shark Magnet"
Fish Bag: Hobie Large soft cooler
Fish Finder: Garmin Striker 4
Main and backup rods: Shimano Trevala 6'0 XXH, Ugly Stik Tiger Elite Jigging 6'6 MH
Bait rod: Tsunami Trophy Slow Pitch 6'0 MH
Reels: Penn Spinfisher VI LiveLiner 8500, Shimano Spheros 14000 XG, Shimano Spheros SW Inshore 4000, Avet MXL 3/6 two speed
Line and terminal tackle: 65 lb spiderwire, 40lb PowerPro, 40lb Berkeley Vanish Fluorocarbon, Sakura 60lb Flurocarbon leader ,35 lb Knot2Kinky Titanium wire leader, Gamakatsu 5/0 live bait hooks, Gamakatsu 5/0 Octopus J hooks, Gamakatsu 6/0 Octopus circle hooks, Promar LED "Disco"
home made sabiki rig for bait: 12lb Ande monofilament (main), 10lb Flurocarbon (branches), size 8 gold limerick hooks, Mar-Mellow Lures 1.5" glow strips, Tylah Lures 1.5" glow strips, HiPerformance Lures "fish sticks", 4 oz bank sinker
Camera: Gopro Hero 8 Black, GoPro Hero 9 Black, GoFish Camera, GoFish Cam trolling camera
You’re a legend Shea!!!!! That’s unreal in 50lb test!
Thanks dude! Definitely thinking of bumping to at least 60 now lol
Legend indeed! That fish tested your tackle, line capacity, kayak capacity and paddling capacity! You and Jason are great partners. Thanks for sharing the catch video!
Thanks Scott! Definitely wouldn't have gotten much, if anything that day without him.
Nice work Shea 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽
Mahalos Kevin 🤙🤙🤙
Such a battle!!! The spin of death had me at the edge of my chair. Yessah congrats!!!
Yessah mahalos braddah 🤙🤙 That last bit of circle work is always a butt clencher 😂
Wow! You two did an awesome job, and excellent work on that end game 🙌
Thanks man! Lucky to have awesome kayak buddies was nice of him to stick around for the landing
What a battle! Had me on the edge of my seat.
My sore back and legs agree lol
As usual,AWESOME work there MAGNET man!!!! 🫵🏽🔨
Lol thanks man! Wouldn't have been able to get it without the bait you have me plus the pole butt cushion. That thing was clutch!
Yeah Shea!!! Wow, what a solid one!! What a workout that looked like haha! and Jason did a great job being backup for you!!! Nice work as always!!!!
Thanks dude! Was sore next day for sure. Definitely couldn't have done it without Jason that day lol.
Congrats, good work 🤙🏾
Thanks! 😃
Congratulations on a big fish! Great job landing him.
Thanks! Was a real one for sure
Yessah! Congrats bro 🔨🤙🏽🤙🏽
Thanks man!
Awesome catch
Thanks! Super dog luck lol
Looks like so much fun 😊
It's a sleigh ride with fish instead of reindeer 🤙
Cheee! Mean one! 🤙🏾
Perfect little guppy, Bro. 🤣 Congrats!
Thanks lol!
Congratulations! You that’s an AHI! Good going on this catch, you did an excellent job. Wow, what a nice catch and you were thinking shark a one point. 🎉
Aloha
Thanks! It really felt like a shark was chasing it and there was a big line on my friends fish finder under mine so maybe got lucky and dodged taxes this time 😂
Those sick sickles so long!!!😂🎉😊
He's an uptown tuna lol. Looks like the sickles never got bitten off yet 😂
Yessah, awesome action! I was hoping bait tube wouldn’t cut da line. The line was sounding pretty tight. 🤙🏼and mahalo buggah was ono!
Thanks braddah 🤙 I was worried whole time the line would cut cuz only 50 lb but he was hooked perfect corner jaw.
Hammahz well done 🔨🔨🔨
Thanks! 🤙🤙
Very nice. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Dang monsta. Nice
thanks braddah 🤙
Nice Catch! What does your friend use for opelu?
I'm curious too
Thanks! I pretty sure he uses home made flies for opelu. Days like that it's more about just being able to even hit the school though.
You need a bigger kayak! Awesome catch bro.
Lol yeah no space for store these fish nowdays 😂 Thanks man 🤙
Thanks for sharing the action. Nice one! Hows them sickles, WOW! Didn't see the weight in the video, or comments. How much did this bugga come out to be?
Mahalos 🤙 Was somewhere between 75 and 80. Must have not gotten into much fights and kept the pretty long fins lol
I would love to fish your waters. Pacific Ocean fishing here in Oregon is Rock Fish, Ling Cod, Salmon, maybe Halibut. We kayak in rough seas, sometimes 5-7 ft swell. Good catch, excellent content here. What size Avet reel?
We are super lucky to have deep water close to shore and relatively calm seas (some of the time anyway). This area in the video is especially calm most of the year except for crazy unpredictable offshore winds.
PNW fishing looks super legit too. Those cold water species are super tasty. The Avet I'm using is an MX but I'd say it's barely big enough. LX would be better.
Coolest video yet, which island?🔥🔥
Mahalos 🤙 This is on the Big Island
What a slob of a fish! Congrats!!! Looked like work getting him in...
Thanks dude! Was a serious workout for sure. Hamstrings and back was sore next day
That was an awesome catch in really favorable conditions. One of the things I think is crazy is when we fish live bait we always want one very lively, perfect looking. If this perfect bait gets chewed or dies we give up on it, we feel we are not fishing anymore. But we will fish that exact same bait cut up into chunks to catch the same fish😅.
Thanks dude! Was definitely a frustrating start to the day but thanks to my friend I had a steady supply of live bait. That big one actually ate my live bait way up on the surface. It looked like a bomb had gone off ~80 feet away and suddenly my reel started screaming. I was chumming the frozen opelu I brought though and I think that really made the difference and brought the Shibis in close.
HECK YEAH! Beast didn;t want to give up an INCH! Is that your PB?? Cheeeeeee!!
Yessah! Buggah was scrapping HARD. It's my PB now by a few lbs. Second biggest one was right from out same spot too.
Nice faka 👍. Guys get hard time catching on one boat and here you stay in one kayak. Right on congrats. How’s the meat since you don’t have a cooler?
Mahalos 🤙 The meat was prime. I bled it well out there then got it buried in ice back at the truck in less than an hour.
Congrats.. what part of Hawaii?
Thanks! This was NW side of the Big Island.
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That was a war not fishing 😂😂😂. Finally it took how long to land?
lol you ain't kidding 😂 It took something like 1:45 from hookup to gaff.
Twisted wire leader…. Sailfish?
Could be that, or even just a shibi inhaling the rig and spitting it out.
Ahis biting late this year
Yeah weird maybe cuz had those late tropical storms.
Nice work Shea that is a beauty!!!
Poke and sashimi for weeks!!!
Keep’m bent!!! }
Hey thanks man 🤙🤙🤙 The raw stuff all gone but still eating cooked ahi this week lol
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