Hawaii Big Game Sport Fishing Charters |
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| Wahoo (called Ono in Hawaii) - Oahu, Hawaii |
The state of Hawaii places offshore buoys around the islands to congregate fish, these buoys are called Fish Aggregation Devices or FAD's. Any place a small fish can hide from or out maneuver a larger fish will attract and hold large schools of smaller fish and the larger predators that feed on them. A log, cargo net or any other naturally occuring debris will often be a gold mine of mahi, tuna and Wahoo.
The state sponsored FAD's work the same way. Due to the low frequency of commercial ship traffic the state places more buoys along the Waianae coast than it does on the Eastern or North Shores of the island of Oahu. Because the Waianae coast is on the leeward side of Oahu the water is generally calm and as a result the buoys are much less likely to break away as they do in the always rough water on the windward North Shore.
If someone tells you that rough water fishing is better, don't believe it, they just don't have an option. Nothing competes with feeding live mackerel to tuna's or mahi's in calm water around a natural floater or a Fish Aggregation Device.