Fish Stories 3

This is another awesome year as Errol has done something that not many fisherman get the chance to do. It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon at our favorite daytime fishing spot when Errol takes a strike on his heavy nitro pole after sliding an opelu. The time was about 12:30pm and our friend Justin was packing up for the day when Errol had that screamer. With Justin backing him up, Errol took on a fish that he actually thought had spit the hook because he was reeling line in with no resistance. As he started reeling, he felt that he still had the fish on and set the hook. That’s then the fish took off. With his pole bending and his reel screaming, line started peeling out really fast. He tried slowing it down by thumbing the spool but even with both thumbs, could not slow the fish. His friend Justin reminded him not to put his finger on the line. Errol thought that if the fish didn’t stop soon, he would be spooled and kept fighting the fish he said felt like a truck. After a good 25 minutes the fish started to tire and slowly got closer. Errol passed the pole to Justin to finish off the fish and it came up to the surface 5 minutes after that. Justin started screaming, Ahi! Ahi! Luckily for us, our friend Jim just happened to bring his newly made gaff along because it took 2 gaffs to bring it up and we were awed at the size of the fish. The group of people watching were cheering and everyone was congratulating Errol for his incredible fish. We eventually took the fish to get weighed at Tamashiro market where proprietor, Cyrus Tamashiro waited for our arrival. With the help of Tony and Ben, they took Errol with his fish to the scale to see that it weighed an amazing 67.5 pounds! Congratulations to Errol on his amazing catch!

Mahalo,
Robert Hu