Shore Fishing For Giants | Cal in the Field 

This video with Cal's narration was masterfully done, capturing the tradition of land based ulua fishing with all the prep and concern about eating the prized fish. The Big Island of Hawaii is the youngest island with the deepest dropoffs close to shore, and a lot of crevices to attract the food chain. What's difficult about fishing there is getting close to the cliff shore since the main roads don't go that close. You also need specialized 4-wheel drive trucks to get you to your camp sites. These guys are hammahs!

It's always great to see others passionate about big game shore fishing. My prize catch was a 30lb yellowtail from shore in California.

I caught over 100 Ulua on The North Shore. Back in the late eighties and through the nineties. I always used fresh taco. Paddled, or swam them out mostly. Got tired of fishing on the rocks with a whole city of guys. So I started going to Kei Ike, or Lani Kea most of the time. I did still fish on Liea Point some as it was close to Home. But I didn’t fish it one the handful of night the clouds would come once I dialed the North Shore. No body would eat The White Alia over 50 lbs. The University of Hawaii used to do free testing for Ciguatera during those years for their own studies. The guy leading the study at UH told me 100% of the fish over 100 lbs were always “hot”. So we always returned the ones over 50. Kagami were my favorite eaters by far. Those ate mostly at dawn patrol. Where as The Whites ate mostly at night. You can get calendars with tide charts on every day of the year.. I used to get my at Nanko’s. Not even sure if they are around any more. Anyway. I kept records of my catches very precisely on the calendar my first year I started becoming successful. After doing that I found very precise common denominators on the calendar. Once I learned that. I could buy a new calendar in December and in twenty minutes I would circle the times to be fishing. And then I would always fish the primary nights and started catching about 24 a year. I would always make sure to fish dawn patrols. But on “The Magic” dawn patrols we always did much better. I caught 4 Kagamies on morning and lost one. I caught two Kagamie at 45 lbs and learned after that they both could have been state records. I knew they were huge but I didn’t think more about them. One night reading Hawaiian Fishing News I was eating a huge Omilu I caught the night before at Liea Point. I just sat to eat that fish and I opened up the New hHawaiin Fishing News that came in the mail that day. In it they had all the state records in it. As I was reading through the categories. I realized the Omilu I was eating was a pound over the state records. As I looked further in the paper. It was then I realized my two best Omilu were a couple pounds larger than the state record too

These bad ass dudes are tagging salt water fish and releasing like champions... kudos !!!!

I recently developed a surf fishing obsession, so perfect timing Cal.

It’s really cool that meat eater and the boys show some love to the Hawaii fishing ohana. We have been slide baiting and diving for years. Not only for recreation, but for subsistence. Anyone can catch from a boat. The heart of catching in Hawaii is from the rocks. Very, very cool.

I love Steve but Cal is my man. I really enjoy his videos the dude is a real hunter and student. Thanks for the content Cal!

I don't know if I have ever seen that look in Cals eyes as he was fighting that fish. Awesome. Life.

Solid ulua! 💪 And way to capture the traditions and meaning behind why the Ulua is such a special fish in Hawaii!

shore fishing is a lot of work but so much more rewarding especially wen the hard work pays off

Ohhh man! I LOVE Newell Reels!!!!!!! Old School USA made!

That Newell was putting in the WORK.

Omilu are my absolute favorite they’re gorgeous

As someone living hunting and fishing on big island I’m so fckin pumped you guys keep going episodes here absolutely awesome can’t wait too see some axis deer and ukus in the future

Cal/Meat Eater Crew...may I suggest a Land Based Shark Fishing Trip to Florida or Texas!! Would love to see an episode on this. You mentioned a lot of prep for this type of fishing, well.....its the same with LBSF. Yall should try it. 10 foot plus fish from the beach if conditions are good.

Good show

Love everything about this!!!

with that many poles, I could only hope viewers fully know how much effort it takes to catch the live baits+ recast poles + tie lines... theres so much prep and work consistently going on when ulua fishing D:

We need more content from Cal!

The Cal and Janis segments are by far my favorite with Jay being a close 3rd.

Caught a 35 inch ulua last night. Southeast shore big island. Great fun! And super tasty! Even more Ono than Ono! Great video. Mahalo

Love Cal!

The look in Clays eyes tells it all. Dude is reeling in a Buick.

Man.. this was so cool. Great job meat eater crew

I like Cal. Good guy

Action 🤙🏽🤙🏽

Cal is my favorite presenter

I was looking forward to this one! Didn't disappoint

Reminds me of the big island. Great vid

Wow that my home grounds - !!! Kona !!🤙🏽

Cal is living the good life

Big respect to these guys. Cal mentioned the big money GT fishing. To compare using a hunting analogy, these guys are getting public land trophy animals vs private guided hunts.

These guys need to be introduced to a 2 rod trolley! Will save a lot of lead

Nice video Cal! Super rainy day here in Texas so I’m fishing by proxy with this video! I have used a similar approach with big leads and anchor lines from salt water piers off the gulf in Alabama so it’s super cool to see them used here. Thanks for the explanations of the rig and attention to detail. Super cool vid.

“Just shore fishing…” With 11 rods, each costing in the $1,100 range.

Using a Newell reel! Glad to see it, im a looooong time user!

Just like we do back home 🤙🏾🤙🏾 cheeee

Whoo Hoo Nice Fish Cal🎉. Merry Christmas 🎄🌟🎅 JO JO IN VT 💞☃️

You should get on a plane and come and do this on the Natal South Coast in South Africa...shark species galore to catch and release and some seriously decent eating fish to be had too...

i dont thing i've ever seen anything more haole then this.

Yessaaaah You FAAAKAAAZ ☝🏼👇🏼‼️

this is great, but we need a west coast Das Boat!

Cal looked like a fish outta water there

LET''S GOOO

Very similar to Columbia river plunking. Instead of a giant bait we slide down a plug.

How much lead is littered in the reef. Why can't they use steel or rebar version that will rust away without polluting the water?

some local studies have actually found best way to detect cigatara is see if a cat will eat it!! sounds crazy but worked.

Man , I couldn't just let my big weights drop off LOL

Hanapa'a Cal!

Is it actually lead (Pb)? That seems unnecessary.

How do they find the lead weights? The video makes it seem like they just go out and search the area which seems very difficult. If thats the case, painting them a bright color might help

we need a fishing focused session of meateater. followed by a session of butchering and cooking.

Looks fun! Do yall ever catch em on artificials in Hawaii? Cavy fishing on yourube does it quite a bit from the rocks, but maybe its better, less pressured waters hes usually fishing. It just looks a lot more fun to me chucking plugs , etc than all this work but both are incredible to me.

Sigitera is actually pretty rare. Certain species certain times of the year can have it but most native islanders eat reef fishes their whole lives and see no effect

Obsession is right! Love these fish! 35 inch ulua the other night. Check out the video on "just bent fishing". Love the Meat Eater content! Thank you!

Imagine how may lead weights are out there 😮

Boom

I was raised in hokulia and that’s the biggest ulua I’ve ever seen

Look at that oama

I gave up on bait caster or what ever that reel is called. Normal reel will catch anything without bird nests. lol Good enough for me!

I started surf fishing 4 years ago, no one in my family or friends does it. I convinced my bud to try it when I started, it's such a great thing and feels so much more rewarding than fishing off a boat (which i do not have access to) except for 1 charter i tried. We want to try hunting now, being Australian we unfortunately know nothing about firearms and we're going to a range to get started.

Like plunking for salmon but island style

Come to Australia or New Zealand if you want to really experience true on shore monster gt's love ya work cal

"Oh, I got gas in the tank, buddy"

By the way Dem boiz 100 plus club members Historic fishermen

My dad used string and a stone to weight his line that way you’re not throwing lead in the water by the hundreds and leaving it on the ocean floor………

Nothing new. fished this way 25 yrs ago on coast of Florida. Works most of the time.

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What sauce/sauces do you use on the fish?

Neil

Lol. I never seen anybody look so awkward catching a fish. But nice catch

Thats a lot of lead weights they're just leaving out there.

These fakas fishing uluas now🤣👏

Ghost Ulua.

Great. Purposely leaving a bunch of lead in the ocean. Thanks a lot.

Do you guys do guided fishing outings?

Just my 2.4 cents but I think the breakaway should be a stone and the line attached to it should be cotton wool. Scrape the thin layer of skin off the bark and soak it in salt water for 3 weeks and the fibre should just fall off. Bundle a lot of them so you can have spare for future fishing. Fishing lines and lures are made of plastic and if you care about the future you should try to slow it down. There is no fixing the ocean now and if you think you can go to Bali and see . I go to Bali twice a year with my family to pick up plastic but there’s no bin to put it in. If you think it makes no difference I will tell you a story. A man was walking down the beach and he saw a person throwing back starfish into the ocean after a hurricane and he said it makes no difference. The person throwing them back said it makes a difference to that one. So you can make a difference. From a Cook Islander

Crazy losing tackle basically by design

Trevally, lol, you’re in Hawaii, wtf is a trevally?

Bug fush bru

Tell how many pounds did you bring home of that fish? Hey, there's a 100 pound fish. I got a feeling you didn't bring. Then rain, but maybe 2 pounds wrong. I would love to have your job. It'd be a good feeling just to do. Well, you're doing it.Make a hell of good living doing it.And then b**** about the fish.I love you but but I don't agree with all your aspects

swim leads out to hell with casting . in texas i would swim baits past the waves with a mask and fins . i dont understand why these guys dont just swim the leads out . people night dive for lobster all the time so fear of large sharks at night is not an excuse .

This is what FieldDays does… for sure should check him out. Super good videos