@IHUNTA 🏝🍍🏝🍍🏝🌺Aloha Hunter! ❤🔥Love Hawaii one of my favorite places to go! ❤🔥When I was in Oahu I wanted to check out the entire island so I spent the entire day literally driving around the entire island starting off in Waikiki heading towards Diamond Head and making multiple stops along the way and eventually hitting the North Shore and then headed back towards Waipahu. 🐠🐠🐠🎣❤🔥Love all the super colorful and exotic fish you caught! Hawaii has some of the most beautiful colorful fish. It would be so cool to put all those exotic colorful fish in a tank.🐟🐟🐟🎣 If I lived in Hawaii I would definitely do that. 🏝Fantastic video of all the different spots you went to. 🌊Wow! I can't believe you were out there at night in the dark, that couldn't have been more difficult 🎣catching fish. I remember when I was there, some locals told me you really need to be careful on some parts of the island, because it can be pretty dangerous, meaning some of the people living there, and they were talking about the daytime. I did have one sketchy encounter which was pretty scary.🌴🏄🏼🌴🏄🏼🌴Hang Loose Aloha! 🤙🏼
What a welcome surprise to see this pop up in my notifications. Your format and commentary is so entertaining I could watch a 2 hour video in one go. Congrats on all the lifers!
Wasn't expecting to see this video pop up today, but I'm sure glad it did. Great video as always. 6:20 I do have a question though. If they arrived due to natural means, wouldn't that make them not invasive?
Thank you! Not the classic term for invasive but IMO they are still invaders in a sense. Looks like recent terms related to species doing this are Range-Expanding Species or Neonatoves which most lean towards the native end.
Great vid Hunter! My brother lived out there for 2 years and I had the pleasure of visiting him twice. It's some gorgeous scenery out there and a ton of awesome fish! Glad you were able to make it out there! - Paul from Icthyology Class
Thank you, credit for those goes out to to copyright free drone videos of O’ahu on TH-cam. That’s of the good things about filming somewhere already heavily visited and filmed.
Airfare (510), lodging (137) & transportation (94) combined costed $741. Coulda saved $100 if I didn’t use Lyft nor stay at Kahana Bay the last two nights. All public owned land is closed to camping on Wednesdays and Thursdays BTW so I used the Malaekahana campground those days for only ~$11 a night. Prolly spent an extra $200 on backpacking/general travel supplies (travel rod w/ case, power bank, rain fly, etc.) but those are reusable. People say everything is expensive in Hawaii but compared to the remote Native American reservation where I live now I definitely saved money on everyday commodities by going to Hawaii. That reminds me, an extra $153 for gas to make the 8 hour round trip to the airport, tolls, and offsite airport parking. Grand total: $1,100 with $900 being spent on things that I don’t physically have anymore.
Great video! If you don’t want to have a water problem next trip i recommend a lifestraw. You could just drink from the creek directly when you are dizzy 😂
Thanks! I definitely looked at buying one before the trip but just forgot to do it, that would have been a game changer lol. Next time I do a trip like this I will have one of those for sure. Looking back I also need to condition my feet up a bit leading up to doing a walking intensive excursion like this.
The end of a 4 piece rod I believe. I like using the 2.5’ end of a fly rod or broken off end of any rod. Just make sure the rod isn’t too bendy or flimsy since water puts a lot of resistance on underwater hooksets. It’s good to have some power behind the hook set.
That's true, was stoked to see about 7 Butterflyfish at one time swarming my bait here. I caught these on size 20 dry fly hooks after about 8-10 missed hook sets each, shrimp as bait. Interestingly fishing for small-mouthed reef species like Butterflyfish in Hawaii is so popular that even Walmart sells packs of that hook size.
@@IHUNTA I made some feeble attempts at catching them on the Tanago down in St. John but couldn't make it happen. They occurred pretty sparsely it was tough to fish them.
@@taytonalvis7463 I'm 0/3 with butterflyfish. Struck out once in Singapore, once in Florida, and once in Bermuda. At least the species I was dealing with were very tinicky and spooked easily. Hopefully I get one someday.
@IHUNTA 🏝🍍🏝🍍🏝🌺Aloha Hunter! ❤🔥Love Hawaii one of my favorite places to go! ❤🔥When I was in Oahu I wanted to check out the entire island so I spent the entire day literally driving around the entire island starting off in Waikiki heading towards Diamond Head and making multiple stops along the way and eventually hitting the North Shore and then headed back towards Waipahu. 🐠🐠🐠🎣❤🔥Love all the super colorful and exotic fish you caught! Hawaii has some of the most beautiful colorful fish. It would be so cool to put all those exotic colorful fish in a tank.🐟🐟🐟🎣 If I lived in Hawaii I would definitely do that. 🏝Fantastic video of all the different spots you went to. 🌊Wow! I can't believe you were out there at night in the dark, that couldn't have been more difficult 🎣catching fish. I remember when I was there, some locals told me you really need to be careful on some parts of the island, because it can be pretty dangerous, meaning some of the people living there, and they were talking about the daytime. I did have one sketchy encounter which was pretty scary.🌴🏄🏼🌴🏄🏼🌴Hang Loose Aloha! 🤙🏼
Incredible adventure man thanks for sharing the experience.
What a welcome surprise to see this pop up in my notifications. Your format and commentary is so entertaining I could watch a 2 hour video in one go. Congrats on all the lifers!
Thank you!
Always love these videos. 2nd time watching but there always great
Thanks! I find myself rewatching them sometimes as well lol
Awesome video! Crazy species
Wasn't expecting to see this video pop up today, but I'm sure glad it did. Great video as always.
6:20 I do have a question though. If they arrived due to natural means, wouldn't that make them not invasive?
Thank you! Not the classic term for invasive but IMO they are still invaders in a sense. Looks like recent terms related to species doing this are Range-Expanding Species or Neonatoves which most lean towards the native end.
Great vid Hunter! My brother lived out there for 2 years and I had the pleasure of visiting him twice. It's some gorgeous scenery out there and a ton of awesome fish! Glad you were able to make it out there!
- Paul from Icthyology Class
Thanks Paul, It was a blast with all the novel species and ditto that on the epic scenery. Good to hear from you!
That's awesome!
Love the narration! It's a good touch.
Thanks for the feedback, it definitely condensed things which matched the amount of footage I recorded nicely lol
Sweet drone shots!
Thank you, credit for those goes out to to copyright free drone videos of O’ahu on TH-cam. That’s of the good things about filming somewhere already heavily visited and filmed.
Friggin yes dude!
awesome video man. inspired me to book a trip and do some microfishing myself!
Thanks dude that's awesome, good luck! O'ahu is quite affordable if you camp and use a Holo card to take the bus around.
@@IHUNTA out of curiosity how much was your trip?
Airfare (510), lodging (137) & transportation (94) combined costed $741. Coulda saved $100 if I didn’t use Lyft nor stay at Kahana Bay the last two nights. All public owned land is closed to camping on Wednesdays and Thursdays BTW so I used the Malaekahana campground those days for only ~$11 a night. Prolly spent an extra $200 on backpacking/general travel supplies (travel rod w/ case, power bank, rain fly, etc.) but those are reusable. People say everything is expensive in Hawaii but compared to the remote Native American reservation where I live now I definitely saved money on everyday commodities by going to Hawaii. That reminds me, an extra $153 for gas to make the 8 hour round trip to the airport, tolls, and offsite airport parking. Grand total: $1,100 with $900 being spent on things that I don’t physically have anymore.
Great video! If you don’t want to have a water problem next trip i recommend a lifestraw. You could just drink from the creek directly when you are dizzy 😂
Thanks! I definitely looked at buying one before the trip but just forgot to do it, that would have been a game changer lol. Next time I do a trip like this I will have one of those for sure. Looking back I also need to condition my feet up a bit leading up to doing a walking intensive excursion like this.
@@IHUNTA I know the feet pain lol! Always sore after wading in rocky streams for a whole day
What kind of rod was that when you where under water snorkeling
The end of a 4 piece rod I believe. I like using the 2.5’ end of a fly rod or broken off end of any rod. Just make sure the rod isn’t too bendy or flimsy since water puts a lot of resistance on underwater hooksets. It’s good to have some power behind the hook set.
@@IHUNTA bet bro thank you I’m a try this 😂😂😂
In japan you should target the stiphodon, sicyopterus gobies
Ohh yeah, those coastal rock-climbing Gobies would for sure be on the hit list
Haven’t seen many people catch butterfly fish, they’ve been something I’ve wanted to hook into for awhile.
That's true, was stoked to see about 7 Butterflyfish at one time swarming my bait here. I caught these on size 20 dry fly hooks after about 8-10 missed hook sets each, shrimp as bait. Interestingly fishing for small-mouthed reef species like Butterflyfish in Hawaii is so popular that even Walmart sells packs of that hook size.
@@IHUNTA I made some feeble attempts at catching them on the Tanago down in St. John but couldn't make it happen. They occurred pretty sparsely it was tough to fish them.
@@taytonalvis7463 I'm 0/3 with butterflyfish. Struck out once in Singapore, once in Florida, and once in Bermuda. At least the species I was dealing with were very tinicky and spooked easily. Hopefully I get one someday.