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Originally Posted by monkyak
I will be going to Kauai for vacation. Anybody have travel rod recommendations? I Will be surf fishing with a spinning rod. Telescopic vs 3-4 piece? Thanks
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If your sticking to shore., I'd suggest a Kencor Magnaglass 9ft spinning rod with something a around a 10-20 pound rating.
You can catch a variety of small fish just casting krocodiles, but if you really want to have fun fish for Papio or smaller jacks under ten pounds
My favorite papio are bluefin trevally, small bright hard fighting jacks that hang around the reefs.
They love live bait and you can fish them with small goatfish under a cork. They come up and boil, knock them up out of the water, and slam them hard. It's a really fun way to fish.
The best place to fish them is down at Koloa landing off the point on the east side and you can get your baby goatfish on ultralight tackle using small chunks of squid back in the cove. On any given day there are usually a few locals there. Just watch them and do what they do.
You can also catch Popio and Ulau (larger Jacks) on plugs jigs and lures. Watch out for White Ulua (Giant Trevelly) as they can cruise through and clean your clock.
Here's something you might want to look at.
http://www.hawaiibeachcombers.com/ulua.html
There is some amazing fishing there. My largest jack from the shore is only about eight pounds, I've hooked bigger ones, but on light gear anything larger will probably rock you. I got a 137 pound YFT fishing on a 40 dollar a half day trip just two miles offshore, right up the beach from there and have seen huge Ulua boil on my baits, and 100 pound plus tuna crash right up to the reefs at Koloa.
If I was you I'd take La Jolla sized tackle and find a place where I could rent a kayak for a few days then launch at Koloa Landing and fish outside the reefs. It's a easy put in on the lee side of the Island and you could hook almost anything out there from huge jacks to tuna to even Marlin all within a short paddling distance from the launch.
At any rate good fishing to you. You're going to have a blast there.
Jim