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The fly fishing was much tougher than I anticipated, but I was rewarded with some very colorful fish. Hawaii is not a great flats fishing place, because the strong winds blow almost all of the time and make fly fishing very difficult. The terrain is mostly steep and rocky, so it is not very amenable to fly fishing to begin with. I also began to notice while I was snorkeling that there are very few fish that really appear to be predatory. Most of the fish have very tiny mouths, and spend their days pecking at the corral. This is very different from the saltwater fishing that I am used to, where you can usually tell that all of the fish are out to eat other fish just by looking at them. Even the little surf perch in San Diego look much more predatory than these little guys. I caught the cornetfish (upper left) using a gummy minnow. It gave a very weak fight, but was fun to catch. I don’t know what the scrappy little guy on in the middle is, who bit a brown wooly bugger. The colorful fish on the right is an ornate wrasse, which is very common in the area.
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