The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-25

DOWN TIE SHORE.

When the tide doesn t serve or the
weather ism t tempting enough to take
the boat out there is sport and plenty
of it to be had along the beach with
bamboo and line
With a supply Of fresh shrimps go
down to the shore anywhere between
the Diamond Head lighthouse and the
black rocks on the Koko Head side
OF Kupikipikio Point and if you don It
get a mess of fish it viii be because
the fish are dead off their feed or you
don t know how to catch them.
Take your shoes of and you viii en-
joy yourself great deal more. Stick
TO the sand, however, and don't let
the exposed reef tempt you to try your
luck thereon. With an old pair of shoes
you may go out on the reef and have
fine sport. However caIIoused the soles
Of your feet may be you are apt TO step
on sharp pointed shell and sustain a
painful puneture. Also the water win
now and again surge Unexpectedly over
the reef causing you to lose your bal
ance before you know 1t. In the swirl
of the water YOU struggle to obtain
f0Othold and the chances are that you
viii eur your feet badly on the Jagged
coral which incises the skin like a
knife.
We make our first stop at a little
runway of wafer in coral ledge which
marks low-water line and which is GOV
cred when the tide is in. The water
surges in here and is then sucked back
through narrow, Eeed-grown passage
way opening into the lagoon and tun-
neied under the coral The ledge is
undermined on both sides Of the run
way and forms a shelter for many fish.
There IS nearly always good FISH TO
be taken here.
Wait till the wash IS reeeding and
let 1t draw your bait into the passage,
standing wei back lest the fish be
come apprised Of your presence.
You have a bite and the fish has
taken good hold. Don I let him have
too much slack or he viii take your
line under the ledge and snag it. A
gentle strain and careful playing will
DO the trick. You pull out a good
sized poopaa. and presently bring to bag
a big ahoIehole. The latter fish loves
this spot and those taken here are near
" always fat.
1t IS nv turn next and I hook q
fish which rushes seward Suddenly the
line slackens and pulling it IN | find
that it IS minus the hook. I must have
hooked nenue and the fish has bit
ten clean through the gut.
There s1a.-cv7 zsza-T m Fea Tz7rs~es
fish under the ledge so we move along
till We reach another ledge Of rock just
past a bathing pier.
Casting my bait among some rocks
I get a sharp bite which I miss Again
I drop my bait in the same spot and
this time land the fish which turns out
TO be kupipi It is round fish with
dark. IatitudinaI bars and a black spot
near the tail This fsh is yeritable
glutton and feeds all day long and
has this additional point in its favor
that 1t can be caught when nothing else
will look at the bait.
We pick up a few hinalea and small /
awela but make no prolonged stay till
We come to a bathing pool built IN the
rocks. Here is a wall the water at
AS case OF when LOOKS ESuF anu mere {
for while we viii pitch our camp.
Some mamamo are disporting them /
selves among the rocks. their yeIlo7visE1 +
green hue IN the water making them !
A crushed ohiki or two
thrown into the water brings them +
9ocking. They are readily attracted /.
BY the crabmeat which must possess a /
very strong scent; for a school Of ma /
mamo may be made to follow a fisher /
alan quite a way if be viii leave 3 I
trail Of ehewed ohiki behind him.
The mamano Is not TO be caught
with the ordinary weighted line L is 4
: shy feeder and easily scared u
silk line with a small hook and Ea +
cad attached should be used. and the
inc must be dropped into the water
and allowed 70 90 wherever the tide 4
takes II When q ma uasnno bites, the
ire VIII straighten out. and a quick .
turn of the wrist viii usually hook Z
MS lively little fellow. The mauarao +
provides good sport when properly