Aloha DB,
The weather was shitty, but better than staying home. No onos. The good
news is I got a nice ulua, the bad news is I may have a fractured wrist.
Sunday morning when I was taking the ratchet off the winch to unhook the
boat, the ratchet snapped and the handle whipped around and hit my chest
and then my right hand right on top in front of the wrist joint. My hand
was numb for a while and I got a big bruise on my chest.
It seemed ok during the day, but hard to load the gun. Then when we got
back it really stiffened up and now I'm typing with one hand. Good thing
I'm left handed. The wrist is swollen now and hurts like hell. Motrin
800 helped and today it felt better. I called a friend and he said not
much can be done so to go easy on it. If it doesn't get better I have to
get it xrayed.
We also checked an ulua house and Joe shot a huge one about 60 plus lbs.
The sliptip didn't toggle and all he ended up with was a bent shaft.
Later we went to another hole called the deep hole and there were a
school of bluefin trevallies all about 10-15 lbs. But two fish were
bigger and one much bigger than the other. The larger one left before we
could finish breathing up so I just dive bombed the hole before the
other one could leave. I saw it just as it came out from the archway and
shot it behind the head. The tip toggled on the other side of its belly
and it went nuts. It wasn't a kill shot so the cable ripped the side
open and I barely got it to the surface where my dive buddy Little David
put the kill shot into its head. As long as I can load a gun, I'll be
out next weekend.
Aloha, Daryl
left handed in Hawaii.
The weather was shitty, but better than staying home. No onos. The good
news is I got a nice ulua, the bad news is I may have a fractured wrist.
Sunday morning when I was taking the ratchet off the winch to unhook the
boat, the ratchet snapped and the handle whipped around and hit my chest
and then my right hand right on top in front of the wrist joint. My hand
was numb for a while and I got a big bruise on my chest.
It seemed ok during the day, but hard to load the gun. Then when we got
back it really stiffened up and now I'm typing with one hand. Good thing
I'm left handed. The wrist is swollen now and hurts like hell. Motrin
800 helped and today it felt better. I called a friend and he said not
much can be done so to go easy on it. If it doesn't get better I have to
get it xrayed.
We also checked an ulua house and Joe shot a huge one about 60 plus lbs.
The sliptip didn't toggle and all he ended up with was a bent shaft.
Later we went to another hole called the deep hole and there were a
school of bluefin trevallies all about 10-15 lbs. But two fish were
bigger and one much bigger than the other. The larger one left before we
could finish breathing up so I just dive bombed the hole before the
other one could leave. I saw it just as it came out from the archway and
shot it behind the head. The tip toggled on the other side of its belly
and it went nuts. It wasn't a kill shot so the cable ripped the side
open and I barely got it to the surface where my dive buddy Little David
put the kill shot into its head. As long as I can load a gun, I'll be
out next weekend.
Aloha, Daryl
left handed in Hawaii.