Tagging & Releasing Ulua, Just as Rewarding

It was the weekend and one of our favorite moon phases, so my buddy Kimo Ah New and I came up with a last-minute plan to go ulua fishing. We got to one of our spots after dark and were surprised by how big the surf was that evening. I asked Kimo if he wanted to go to another spot or go home, but we decided to stay and chance it.

We began setting up for slide-baiting and bait-casting. We had tako and eel for bait. We set up our IRW Slider rods with Newell reels loaded with 60-lb test mainline. One by one, we cast our lines and set up the