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One annual negative of winter shore fishing here is the crunch of tourists who don't understand that they don't own the ocean. So many feel that their presence means nobody can fish within a mile of them and their families. It's always been a challenge, but the entitled mentality is making it...

winter means 7 and 8 wt rods and bonefish for me...some trevally mixed in there too. Add some Green job fish and amberjacks on my boat. Plenty of reef fish on 5 wts. Lots of sushi and ramen feasts.

yeah things have been brutal lately.

That's the distortion from the water making the nose look rather "shovellish" like that....it's a 5'ish galapagos shark. We had to deal with way too many sharks over the weekend....total pains in the ass.

20' Glacier Bay.

that's an awesome papio, nice job!

LMAO for sure, but the pics I have are mainly ones caught on fly. I'll look for some that were dirt bagged up.....

now THAT is a perfect specimen!

BI, Kona side.

It’s a green jobfish or uku. Awesome species!

A little Labor Day fun….

Great stuff Boot! I prowled that entire stretch in my youth....you can take the boy out of Oregon, but you can never take Oregon out of the boy.....

exactly. I've taken bones and GTs that ran me right through hellish fields of coral heads and the Sniper held up long enough to land the fish despite being nearly shredded. I don't win every battle but it gives me a lot of confidence in those situations. I use it in 30 lb for deep jigging from...

Sunline Sniper is my favorite. I also have a couple spools of Japanese packaging fluoro I got in Japan that are amazing. They use it for super stealth light line bass and trout fishing. I use it for fly fishing leaders and tippet.

Not sure about the website, I get the diameters from the packaging. Do a diameter check with other brands and you'll see. Sportsman's Warehouse usually has it from 4 lb to 25 lb.

Those are my standards for bonefish tippet too....and I often use #25 lb tippet for bones because Sunline has such small diameters. Japanese engineering for the win...again LOL.

100% fluoro for me too, for all salmonids and bonefish. sunline sniper is my favorite.

Hawaii RE has slowed a bit with the higher interest rates, but still completely crazy. Inventory is very low...I feel bad for the individuals and families trying to buy a house, trying to outcompete the armies of all-cash buyers from Black Rock and other major investments firms hellbent on...

Truthfully, the instinct to get knee deep, once imprinted in the neocortex of a fly fisherman, can never be denied. One will find a way in any situation...🤙🏼🍻

No trout streams where I live, so I wade knee deep where I can...