Glyn Higashi and William Kalauawa have fishing tales to tell after Sunday’s weigh in. Higshi came in with the biggest fish, a 59.25-pounder to take top honors in the ulua division at the 34th Annual Lihu‘e Fishing Supply Jackpot Shoreline
Glyn Higashi and William Kalauawa have fishing tales to tell after Sunday’s weigh in.
Higshi came in with the biggest fish, a 59.25-pounder to take top honors in the ulua division at the 34th Annual Lihu‘e Fishing Supply Jackpot Shoreline Fishing Tournament.
Kalauawa had dual winners with his 38.65-pound kaku, or barracuda, as he topped the Others Over 5 pounds as well as the Special Category: Barracuda competition.
The barracuda was long considered the good luck fish of Shiro Kanemaru, the founder of the tournament back in 1972. On his passing, his surviving family always worked to have some kind of barracuda competition in the tournament to honor his memory.
Jean Nakamura, one of the Kanemaru daughters, headed up this year’s tournament that was dedicated to her mom, Kimie Kanemaru, who passed away between tournaments.
Kanemaru would always be seen at the popular weigh in on Sunday mornings, either chatting with anglers waiting to weigh in, helping with prizes or sometimes just sitting and watching the weighmasters as fish crossed their scales.
Cassidy Lee Bailey was another of the big winners this year, earning top honors in both the Papio and Oio categories and pocketing the prize for third place in the Ulua class.
Bailey’s top papio weighed in just five one-hundredths of a pound shy of the cutoff for ulua. His prize-winning oio was two pounds heavier than runner up Cosme Amulcion Jr., whose fish weighed in at 8.9 pounds.
Kenderson Caspillo walked off with the Smallest Ulua prize on a 10.15-pound entry.
Matthew Hoshino topped the Moi division on a 2.8-pound beauty.
One of the facets of the annual shoreline tournament was the heralding of the start of moi fishing which enjoys a closed season during the summer months.
A nenue earned Tarrance Yaris top honors in the Others Under 5 Pounds category, the prize winner stopping the scale at 4.95 pounds. Keana Caspillo’s tucunare topped the Freshwater competition at 2.65 pounds.
Keama Caspillo took the Children 6-8 Year competition with a 2.65-pound tucunare and Kingzley Kaluahine walked off with the top prize in the 9-12 Year class on a 10.45-pound kaku.
Leaders for this year’s competition can be found in the Scoreboard section on Page B2.
• Dennis Fujimoto, photographer and staff writer, can be reached at 245-3681 (ext. 253) or dfujimoto@kauaipubco.com.
