I didn’t snag anything but found it hard to cast such a light float in the windy conditions. To avoid having to re-tie rigs I tried drifting cut bait on an adjustable float. I think it was either a big Papio or Oio. The hook eventually popped and I was super bummed about that. After that, I had a real nice strike on my dunking pole that would not stop. I bagged all of the Kaku that day, as well as the Toau, and donated them to the Heeia Fishpond staff, which were asking for donations. It was the biggest Kaku of the day, at a decent 17 inches, but good on six pound line. It came in reluctantly into the net after. It took off on another run, but that was its last effort. It saw the net and didn’t like it at all. I worried about the six pound leader the whole time, but somehow it came in close enough for netting. It then took off on a short 15 yard run due to my relatively light tackle, with an eight pound mainline, but not ultralight. Far out, I saw a Kaku take the lure and jump out of the water with it in its mouth. I just hoped there would be no more Kaku that would bite that day. I was worried because the leader was only six pound, because I forgot the 20lb I usually use at Heeia because of the Kaku. I started whipping shortly after with a bubble and strip rig. I tagged it and released it, and watched what could’ve been a real good dinner swim away. It was only 13 inches, but it must’ve weighed a pound and a half or a little over because it was so fat. I took matters into my own hands and grabbed the net, and netted the real fat moi. I yelled for the net and my mom came, and she started recording instead of handing me the net. A really fat moi had surfaced with my oama in its mouth. I reeled it in thinking the whole time it was a Papio, but it fought differently than I was used to. Immediately after, the bell started to ring again and the reel started to scream a little. After I untangled it, I put it back in the pole holder. The line was still halfway in while I was untangling it. Someone had tangled my line and I reeled it in to untangle it. I started to dunk some oama and then I heard the bell ring. I landed it, and it was a decent sized 16 inch Kaku, and really fat for its size. I was tempted to set the hook right there, but I let it swallow it and then set the hook. I put on an oama and started whipping with it, and I was just about to take it out of the water when a Kaku came out of nowhere and inhaled it. But that was sadly the whole school of Toau.
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I learned how to successfully throw it and landed three Toau in short order. But if the water had been deeper, it wouldn’t have ended so well. Luckily, I had brought my nine foot net, and I just scooped it up.
I had never handlined with a spool before, so unfortunately on the first toss I tossed both the bait and the $15 dollar spool of line in the water. Since both of my poles were occupied, I set up a handline. I caught two Kaku on back to back casts on the Kastmaster, but then, after that I decided to go after some of the toau. Within an hour I was already soaked with sweat and it looked like I had actually fallen in the pond. When I got there, the conditions were pretty good for fishing, but it was also very humid due to the rain the night before, and no wind at all. This would be my ninth time fishing at the Heeia Fishpond, and I was hoping to take advantage of the rising tide for most of the time that I would be fishing there.
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