NAME: Sky Sierran Kubby

DATE: March 11, 2007

SPECIES: Roi (peacock grouper)

WEIGHT: 7 pounds, 14 ounces

LOCATION: McKenzie Point, Puna Coast, Big Island

WEAPON: Immersion Triaxx Carbon

FROM: Shore

SYNOPSIS: I was fishing with my friends Zsolt and Dave at Mackenzie Point on the Puna Coast, Big Island. The first day was too rough and not much was going for the live bait we caught. So on the 2nd day, Dave and I jumped in.I speared Waha-nui, Palani, Nenue, Uhu and a few good size Opelu Kala that were in to breed, swarming around me in nice schools. In the midsts of all the frenzie, after stringing up a good-sized Opelu-Kala, I spotted this big Roi and went down for a better look. He was swimming in open water, slurping up chunks of Opelu-Kala guts. When he saw me, he shot across the reef with a few powerful thrusts of his fat tail. I followed him across the reef and snuck up behind the rock he slid under. There I saw the Roi’s big lips sticking out from his hole in about 40 feet of water.

I speared him in the head but still had to battle him a bit to sink my knife.At first I didn’t think he was that big, but when I got back to our fishing spot and my friends helped me hoist the load out of the water, they kept exclaiming how big and fat he was for a Roi. I know there’s bigger ones out there, but it weighed in at Tokanaga’s store at just under 8lbs for a new state record. I think David Sakoda’s previous record from October ‘05 was longer, but this one is fatter.

I fried strips from one fillet in beer/vodka batter and the other half in garlic and butter. I stayed away from the head, but trust no cig here because it’s the East side Puna Coast and there have been no reports- almost bluewater where it drops off so fast some places.

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