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Top Shot Spearfishing provides the absolute best foundation to get into the sport of spearfishing. All gear included. Learn More. Great for beginners, repeat guests or experienced Spearos! This is the ultimate spearfishing' mission. They have a dark brown look with small blue spots and yellow rings around their eyes. They can be found at reef areas at depths of around feet. They can be as long as 7 inches and they weigh around 1 to 2 pounds.
The Nairagi fish is probably the most popular type of fish among the marlin species. The color of their scales is royal blue above that fades to a silvery tone below. They have high pointed dorsal fins and vertical blue shapes on their sides. The striped marlin usually weighs anywhere from 25 to pounds. This fish is another member of the Tang family that is easy to catch. They often move in groups around the reef at about 90 feet deep, and they sleep under rock formations or in small holes, which makes the nighttime ideal for hunting them.
The Manini have a silvery color with a yellowish tinge and black vertical lines. They can as long as 12 inches and generally weigh up to 3 to 4 pounds. This grayish brown fish is a member of the sergeant family. This is an extremely solitary fish that likes chasing other fish away and does not enjoy any sort of company. The sides are usually marked with dark vertical bands. This is a super easy catch that lives at shallow rock crevices and boulder areas.
Where bag limits are applied, each licensee is allowed one bag per day. In vessels that exceed 16 feet in length, the dive flag has to be a minimum 20 x 24 inches and displayed with a white and blue alpha flag.
Spearfishing is permitted for all types of fish as long as they meet the size limits. The Hawaii Division of Aquatic Resources publishes a comprehensive list of all regulated species and the appropriate size limits online. Shore diving is the entering and exiting the water from headlands or beaches. Shore divers usually practice spearfishing at depths between 15 to 80 feet, depending on the location.
Divers often prefer to enter the sea from headlands because of their closeness to deep water. Orange Spine Unicorn Fish. Minimum size 10". In the same family as the Kala or Unicorn Fish, the Umaumalei makes for excellent sashimi!
Found in the shallows this fish is quick to flee if approached to quickly. Try scratching some green lobe coral to get this guys attention. Watch out for the razor sharp orange spikes near the tail! Invasive and Target Species. Spearfishing can help remove invasive species from Hawaii's reefs.
I like to cook mine medium rare to medium and then as the days move forward you might want to get the fish a little bit more well done, but in the first few days i really suggest cooking the fish hot and fast. You could do it deep fried, you could cook it in butter, you can cook it in oil but hot and fast is really the name of the game as far as i'm concerned. Every island is unique in its own way, there's a lot of similarities but also a lot of differences. So the bathymetry, the geography of all the islands and even the differences and the changes that you get within each island on different sides of each island, can play a big role on whether or not you're going to be successful in your spearfishing.
Where i live on the south side of Maui, which is actually the southwest side of Maui, it stays pretty shallow, relatively speaking, not getting more than, i would say at the most, feet deep. What we're doing here is almost a hybrid style of hunting. We're hunting on deep reef but in water that's also deep enough to accommodate pelagic fish. We're using reel guns, so there's a reel on our gun that's attached to a monofilament shooting line and a spear, and that spear can either have a flopper on it, i use a double flopper to where there's two staggered floppers on there for double the protection to prevent a fish from sliding off.
Or you can use a slip tip, the flopper shafts are a little bit more suitable for hunting down on the reef, just in case if you shoot a fish and the shaft hits a rock you're not going to damage the slip tip and make that incapable of further use.
So the flopper shafts are great for the reef whereas the slip tips a little bit more suitable for for open water, you don't want to really be shooting a slip tip into any rocks or anything like that, they can get quite expensive, so you don't want to damage that.
Also we use a belt on our reel or a reel on our belt as well just in case the line on our reel on our gun is all used up, we can go ahead and attach our gun to the reel on our belt and have a little bit more protection and a little bit more time to buy.
Just in case you shoot a big ono or a big wahoo or something like that. On, say, like the big island, where it gets deep quick, it's more suitable in that area to use a breakaway setup. A breakaway setup, you don't really necessarily use a reel on the gun, you have your shaft and more than times a knot, a slip tip, is going to be the best type of shaft to use in that blue deep water that the big island has.
And then you're going to have a float line or a bungee connected to that shaft and float at the other end of it. So that's your drive train. When you shoot a fish with that type of a setup, it all breaks away from the gun and the fish will go more times than not with that deeper water, the fish is going to sound or dive deep and hopefully your buoy and your drive train is strong enough to support the weight and the strength of the pull of that fish and the hopefully the buoy will come back up to the surface and you're able to land your fish in that matter.
Also it's nice to have a bungee, so you can go ahead and try to pull your fish up quick to get it prevent it from getting bit by any sharks or being attacked or eaten or taxed by any sharks. Pole Spears. One of the things that's kind of been ingrained in the Hawaiian culture and it's a little bit more primitive than using a gun with a trigger on it, with a trigger mechanism, a lot of times people will use pole spears or they are referred to more times than not here as a three prong.
So a pole spear can have a three prong where you have three prongs and when you shoot a fish they open up almost acting as a barb to keep the fish on the pole spear. Or you can use a slip tip on the end of the pole spear or a flopper, even maybe a double flopper at the end of that pole spear.
And more times than not without with that type of weapon, you're going to have to get a lot closer to the fish of what you're hunting, in order to have a successful shot and to land a successful shot on the fish, with the chance of landing it. That's a little bit more primitive, a little bit more difficult than using a spear gun that's propelled with bands and a trigger mechanism.
Hawaiian Sling You can also use a Hawaiian sling, but ironically enough a Hawaiian sling isn't very popular with spearfishing in Hawaii. You're going to find that more so in the Bahamas and you can look that up with Andre Musgrove's how-to spearfishing guide in the Bahamas.
But the Hawaiian sling isn't really used too much around here, so you might want to look into that with Andre's video. Some of the tools that we use to lure fish in, that would otherwise just swim by us and not be interested in what's going on in our vicinity whatsoever, are flashers. Flashers can be a variety of different things that you can use, i'm sure that you've seen a lot of different things used in videos on social media and whatnot.
What i like to use are a strand of six discs on ball bearing snap swivels and at the bottom of that strand of flashy discs i like to have a buzz bomb, which is basically it's a metallic skirt, that almost looks like a squid or an octopus or like a hula dress, reflective hula dress, that's dancing around on the bottom of the the strand of flashers.
So if you were to have a pelagic fish such as an ono which is very typical on Maui, it would get a little bit more interested in what's going around in the vicinity as opposed to not being interested in just swimming away.
Or possibly on the big island, if you're maybe doing a shore dive and you're hunting mahi mahi, ono, or blue marlin, white marlin, stripe marlin, or even better ahi that maybe can bring those fish in. Chum Also in conjunction with the flashers we like to use chum. What i use typically are the carcasses from my previous kills and i like to keep the strips of the skin from the carcasses and when i'm in the water i will scale the skin and the scales will fall down and i also like to make nice chunks out of the skin.
The skin usually sinks really slow and that stays up in the water column, a little bit more suited for the pelagic fish that might swim by, in conjunction with the flashers. And things like parts of the body of the carcasses that are used like the spine or the heads or any kind of anything with bones or fins, tends to sink a little bit deeper, a little bit quicker, and so those portions of the chum are a little bit more suited for the reef fish that we're hunting. Some of the chum sinks slow, some of the chum sinks quick, you have all your boundaries covered, there's chum up in the water column for pelagic fish, but also you have the heavier chum with the bones that's sinking down for the reef fish to get interested when you're making drops down there.
On the big island sardines are great for chum, you could also use the carcass from your previous kills as well, but sardines are are usually really good over there. We also have a bait fish in Hawaii named opelu. Opelu are a really great fish to use as bait if you can get them.
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