[Daryl Wong]

Aloha DB Gang,

My wrist is grayish yellow and except for the gouge that is healing I can load bands now and thats the main thing. Nothing a new boat winch and Motrin couldn't fix.
Yesterday there were only two of us. The others had Easter brunch, and kid stuff to do. Pete has a nasty cold and a bad cough so he's laid up. Kaipo and I decided to give the onos one last try. So we went out.

The winds are still blowing, so there wasn't' much bait around and the water was pretty choppy. With the full moon it was hard to anchor and swim in place so we decided to jump on Ulua houses after a few hours of seeing only blue water.

The fist hole was empty and then it was onto the deep hole. It's actually 68ft but looks deeper since its on a drop off. When we swam up to the archway, there was a school of omilus and one big ulua just leaving. The timing was wrong and they must have seen or heard us. Back to the boat and onto the next spot.

The next spot has been productive. It is a large ledge that I shot an ulua on the spear hunter show. Since we only had one shaft with cable, I gave it to Kaipo and told him to go on the side that the uluas hang out. I was going to cover the exit. We both dropped down and when I got to my end, there was two uluas circling. I waited for them to go to Kaipo's side but they just stayed there. The bigger of the two, came up to me and I thought better stone this one or end up with nothing. I dropped it and the other one slowly headed to the other side. I was hoping Kaipo was still there and a second later, I heard his gun go off. I saw him hanging onto his reel line as I brought my fish up. It was going crazy and he had lined the fish. I pulled the shaft out of my fish and reloaded. A kill shot later and we pulled off a rare double out of an ulua hole. This is one of the few times we've done that. Most times its who shoots first that gets the fish.
With only two of us, we took turns taking pictures and then onto the next hole.

The next hole was empty, but had fish around so we changed out Kaipo's shaft and speared some Uhus and Reef fish. The wind was starting to pick up more and I thought we should go and check the deep hole again to see if Joe's theory of them coming back in a few hours was true.

The deep hole was loaded with uluas this time. It had a few in the 30's and three or four in the 60 plus range. But they were swimming agitated when we got there and before we could breath up, they started leaving single file in a hurry. We'll you can't always have your way. As we were swimming back to the boat along that drop off, I saw three uluas mid water. I looked to my right to see if Kaipo saw them and he was already lining up. I dropped down and when Kaipo shot, he missed! They looked closer than they were and his shot was short. The Ulua that got shot at made a big circle and came back to see what happened. Only problem, I was there with my gun and shot him with my barbed shaft. Lucky we were on the drop off and he took me out to the deep. It was a crappy shot but enough that Kaipo could reload and put another shot into it. This Ulua was a Kagami ulua or African Pompano to most of you.
That was it for the day. Kaipo and I both found our Easter fish!

Aloha,Daryl