There are lots of kahawai in the BOI's at the moment. A quick trip out early this morning had feeding kahawai for as far as the eye could see... but man are they difficult!
I was supposed to be hunting for kings, but it was a bit difficult when the boat was completely surrounded by kahawai. So I told myself I'll catch a few kahawai while they're feeding and then get back to hunting for kingfish. An hour later I was still trying to make the kahawai eat! Success only came after multiple fly changes and eventually dropping right down to a tiny size 10 krill fly- fished fast.
Obviously all these fish were fixated with microbait. Once again, I found significant inadequacies in my flybox... I didn't really have anything that truly matched what the fish wanted. More tying of tiny flies would be needed at home.
I thrashed a big popper fly otherwise for a couple of half hearted kingfish follows from smallish fish sitting in green water.
Hopefully the forecast easterlies will stir the kings up a bit and push in some clear bluewater.
Can't really complain about all those kahawai though... despite their fussiness