Hau'ula Toa'u

I wanted to share a photo and story of my wife, Michele. She caught this nice size toa’u while night fishing during a stay at a beach house in Hau’ula. There was a little lagoon area in front of the house not more than 15 yards off shore. It looked like a nice place for some fish to come in on the high tide. She decided to make a little dunking setup with her 6’6” ugly stick pole using ika. Not more than 10 minutes later, her bell started going off! She was in the house at the time so I started calling her to come outside. You should seen the look of excitement on her face as she ran out of the house, grabbed the pole, and began to reel in her catch. It was cool. That ended up being the only catch of the night. We ended up steaming it Chinese style with green onion, ginger, chung choy, shoyu, and hot peanut oil and needless to say it was ono. I think Chinese style if one of the best ways to make this type of fish!


Mahalo,
Cory
Kahaluu, Oahu