Shore fishing tips on Oahu, "Honolulu" Hawaii. A map to start with...

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Say you are used to surf fishing in California and now you are on a fishing vacation trip to Ohau, Hawaii and have the following material in your equipment:

STARTING EQUIPMENT

• a 9ft surf rod (a little short but ok in Hawaii)
• 12 lbs of monofilament
• size 1/0 and 6 hooks
• gulp shrimp and sand crabs
• a needle fish lure
• 2 oz pyramid sinkers
• 1.5 oz egg sinkers
• 1 oz ball sinkers
• frozen squid

Is that enough?

Here some shore fishing tips on Oahu

Equipment tips

• Use eavier line and larger hooks
• Add some surface poppers
• in general: you can use plastic lures, such as swimbaits and Gulp (= resembling shrimp and small fish), strips and pieces of the squid
• 12 lbs = small lures, floater rigs
• carolina rigs are ok
• lures: castmasters, krocodiles, crystal minnows, omilu feathers light yellow, light blue/silver or black

Location Tips

reef off Diamond Head

shallow reef: use lures (and so avoid moray eels), stay surface or mi-water (danger of loosing the terminal tackle in the reef)

If you fish lures on the reefs, best time is when the tide is rising

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Black point, Diamond head

Deeper water, use baits (revally and snappers).

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NORTH SHORES, Haleiwa

Good for bait fishing

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Ala Moana harbor (South)

Good for big bonefish (Oio)

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