I've been on the working hard this past week knowing the weather was going to be nice, so made a few calls to my fellow dive partners, James Oshiro and Travis Masutani and we were all fired up to go. Put on my new dove wetsuit and was ready to go on the job.
The water was flat and with the morning sunrise it was feeling good! It was so clean with 100 ft. visibility we were able to scout and find some really good spots. We were working one area when we spotted to big Ukus (jobfish) eating our palu. One big one was hanging around and because of his greed he kept coming back for more. We made several drops as he veered away but with a few pieces of palu drifting down, the Uku came in for his last bite and Travis lined up and blasted it with his 120 riffe euro.
After what seemed like 10 minutes of fighting, I dropped down to take a good look at his shot and it was holding well with his slip tip so I motioned to pull it up. As he gingerly played the fish, we were lucky no sharks came in, allowing him to bring it up in tact.
The fish came up and it was huge! His personal best Uku was 18 lbs and this one was way bigger. We celebrated with high fives and decided to call it a day.
It clocked in at 26 lbs. just short of the hawaii state record at 29 lbs. We took pictures, made a few gyotaku prints and fillet the fish for the superbowl party tomorrow!
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