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I have Ion XL rods in 6, 7 and 9 weights. I use my 7 for everything from bonefish to trevally and steelhead. It is not a cheap budget rod at all, it has a very light swing weight and plenty of backbone. My 9 has whipped mahimahi and tuna and bigger trevally and cuda. They're taugh sticks...

Yeah the rail is operational. Billions over budget and one of the early executives got caught with his hand in the cookie jar...so corrupt.

Another huge factor was the fire earlier on Tuesday. Residents were told that it was "100% contained" so everyone figured the danger was over. There are many very strange things emerging about the timeline of the tragedy. Like zero siren or text warnings and no cell service. They test the...

The lack of water to fight the fire has now been proven true. There are so many crazy components to this horrible story ...it's hard to keep up as one rumor after another proves to be true.

The big problem is the post-fire toxicity of the soil and lots will tank land values. So the offers aren't going to be the lucrative ones you'd get for a standing house in a desirable market like Lahaina, where a 3 bed 1500 sq foot house was going for $1.5-$1.8 million before the fire. But some...

And on top of everything else survivors are dealing with, the effing carpetbaggers are moving in.

And an exceedingly high rate of government corruption and incompetence. The stories my Maui friends are telling of the shit going on over there...or NOT going on over there....is incredible. One guy had his four-pickup caravan loaded with supplies for their neighborhood blocked by police. He...

You talking about Makani? Yeah he's been over there helping out and posting updates on looting and other stuff. People are really coming together but there are serious challenges. Limited gasoline deliveries, then assholes cutting the line and filling up 5 gas cans. Human nature and...

Tweakers are coming in at night on dirt bikes to loot and are meeting strong resistance from armed locals. They ain't playing around. There’s a lot of jewelry and high end art galleries in Lahaina. The scumbag looters are learning painful lessons…

Exactly. Those winds left little time to respond, but there is new info coming out on several system fails that could have made things better, or at least not as deadly. It's a shitty situation any way you look at it. I loved that town. And Kona is full of the same type of old wood...

My small Penn is a fine reel for light use, but I use Shimano Twin Power and Stellas for serious light tackle work. Expensive, but pretty dang bulletproof. Especially given the abuse they are put through on ocean fish from 5 to 50 pounds here.

My friends who live there say they got zero warning. No emergency text, no radio message, no EBS blast on TV. It just came in like a demon and destroyed everything in it's path. Witnesses said most of the hydrants in and near Lahaina had no water feed. Completely useless at least in the...

everything except bones. But they do work on bones too. These are my go-to flies for trout too.

Nothing fancy, just another batch of my usual drab 'n deadlies.....

Damn. This sucks. I gave the Old Man a kitchen-sink lure years ago at a Cedar River cleanup event and he proudly kept it....it may still be in his house. He talked about it often over the years. I hope it gave him some good memories. That was a good day on the Cedar even though a homeless...

Exactly! I've never had one bad exchange with anyone while fishing from shore on Oahu, BI, Kauai, Maui or Molokai. Throw netters, spear fishermen, bait fishermen....it didn't matter. They'd be curious about my fly rods and we'd talk story and learn from each other. Always a fun convo. The...

CRACKS! And some deserve them. Here is a story that illustrates what has been going on....a long-serving, older state senator welcomed a new staff member from the mainland (Seattle) shortly before he retired a year ago. He said nice things about her and asked her to stand up, and he walked...

Sounds like Hawai'i. If you respect the culture and people, you'll do fine. If you show up and immediately start bitching and whining how things are here, and demand they change to match the place you left on the mainland, you will not be welcomed. Unfortunately that attitude is confronted...