Hawaii Skin Diver The Breath of Freedivers

Dove west side with a friend and invited iELLESS. we hit up a spot that we knew had a school of papio running for the past week hoping to find something following the school if not the palu for some uku. On nthe way out was kinda dead, not even the mu pile was around. We finally found the school so i reached down for my spoon and it was gone. iELLESS dropped down and shot one and picked up his first papio and was really happy. So we went out to a little farther and started to palu and a school of opelu came out of nowhere, but not much else. We swam around and decided to find the school again. I went down to check out a hole..nothing.. so i popped out and checked if the mu's came around. No luck, but i saw something out of the corner of my eye big and shiny. i slowly turned towards it it came in a little closer got in good range. Right when i took the shot it got spooked, but i hit it. i knew it was a bad shot and hoped it would hold. it took me for the ride of my life, ripping line out of my reel like noting and dragging me under an easy 30-40 yards. iELLESS and my friend came over to help and put a second shot in it. then a kill shot. The horrible belly shot held on by just the skin.
We took it to Roys and the official weight was 70 LBS and it came out to be 2.4 LBS shy of a state record. I was kinda sick but it was a great day and and none of the fish went to waste. Thanks to iElLESS and Roland for a fun day.



Horrible belly shot but luckily it held up


At this spot i also shot a 45 LB kahala and Roland shot a 40 LB Kahala last week Wed. Photo of both are supposed to be up a Roys next week but i only have theses one for now.

STONE SHOT

hit me up with some meat!

Right on my braddah....Eh gotta keep it hush hush...Or guys goin raid um...Should be game for dive this coming weekend...Da tat should be healed up by then....Must have been those bands I tied for you.... Nice fish..

Mean you when test um for cig?

If you guys still get the head,guts and bones, the ciguatera study can use them...especially since that Kaku is so big.

nice fish guys!!!!

thanks guys. we did check it for cig and it came out negative. but none of the fish went to waste, meat, bones, heat, liver and heartso no luck for the cig study . my uncles and his neighbors eat everything they can. 672-style is right and gotta keep the spot hush hush iELLESS. keep it between us.

glad to hear that thing tested negative....dazz a lot of meat....congratulations.

you guys gave away all the meat?

........Colin forgot to mention to keep the head and jaw for souvenier. Mean looking

........I thought for sure that it was a record. Better luck next time

dats awesome to bad u missed da record by 2 lbs...not to bring u down ne thing jus to mention if u think u have a possible record u cant have ur partners shoot da fish u have to capture byself without ne help if im not mistaken? ..jus letting u know so da next time if u do get a record u can claim it!! idk tho i might be wrong about da help thing ne body else knows about that?

thanks and i didnt know that you had to land it without help but its good to know that even if you dont. i think next time make sure ill get a better shot just in case.

Kris i got the head at my uncles house drying, but not sure if im going to boil it and glue the bones back together or just leave it dried. either way its a good trophy.

i know where this spot steh. I seen the school, seen the mu pile, and i saw the same kaku in the water... even saw one meen size ulua

Just leave it right on top of a red ant pile it a few days will be clean. One old guy told me this one time I thought he was joking, he said he did that with every thing lobster shells, fish bones and, conch shells.

I second that

I third that! i dive there so much but due to a recent head injury i lost my memory.! Cj could you remind me where that spot is i need to get back there