I found the flats in Kihei finally. If you didn't already know, Kihei is on the south west shore of the island and proves to be the only place I have found so far that has flats to fish. Flats are the places that you generally want to fish when fly fishing the ocean. this is the est habitat for your main query, bone-fish or O'io. this is the place that Terry the taxidermist told me to try. you can wade out about 100 to 150 yards off shore in water that occasionally gets chest deep. There are to real big draw backs to this location however. First, it has sea weed growing everywhere and it is crowded with sea weed pickers. I don't know why but dried out sea weed is ike candy to some of e folks out here. Bleh! The location of the flats is at an ancient Hawaiian fish pond. The Hawaiians would build a stone wall in a half moon shape from the beach out and back in to the beach. In the middle of the wall would be an opening just big enough for fish to swim into during low high tide but not out of during low tide thus trapping the fish so they could harvest them with nets. pretty clever way of getting food, I think.
Any how, I didn't catch anything again. I am going to get my self some popular patterns by calling the guys over at Nervous Water Fly Fishing on the island of Oahu. I may also try to get some tips from a gentle man who does fly fishing tours on Molokai. Mean while i will try some new spots on my own. Till then, Aloha.
