After about a year and a half time past, I was excited to get a green light from my old dive partner J.P.!
Being a family man means little time for diving! Jesse stopped by on Saturday and I told him the reaccount of Jarricks 1st Ulua. Hearing his story got him amped and we planned a drift dive from Kolekole beach park to Hakalau. I was excited because I had heard of a nice ulua house and was hoping to find it so that J.P. could get a crack at scoring his first ulua. Two first uluas in one weekend I thought....now that would be epic!
I woke up excited and started driving to Hakalau. I reached there and the water looked murky with a bit of swell. Jesse reached there a little after me and we loaded up in my car and drove to kolekole.
Upon reaching there we saw big swells with surfers. Not really feeling the green light we decided to just dive out of hakalau and swim right to kolekole.
The right side of the bay was protected the most but there was a little surge. We suited up and got an early start at around 10am haha! We reach the right side point and the water finally starts to clear. There is nice structure but not too much fish. Jesse takes a few shots but misses. After all this time he still however is able to hit the depths pretty well.
We swim and swim and swim and no fish! We come across a few whiptails and I signal Jesse to drop. He drops and swims down and fires at something else. Coming up im laughing hysterically at his accuracy percentage. He reports there was a nice kumu down there and tells me the gun lacks power due to the old bands. I continue to laugh and tell him to try the "mana gun". My goal of the dive was now to shoot a nice uhu with J.P.s gun, not only for the challenge but to spite him as well. hahaha.
I come across another whip whos busy feeding and see if I can dive bomb. I drop 25% and wait. The uhu continues to feed and does a circle and I go for it. I get within range and give a few kicks more and pull the trigger of old faithful. (Omer Cayman Carbon 110cm) Thud! Stone shot! I swim up and look for J.P. and there is a symphony of bubbles erupting from my mask due to the fact I am laughing up a storm!
We swim some more and I find a nice ledge with a small potential ulua house. I signal J.P. down and he hits the bottom at 55ft. He sees some uhus and 2 big joes which he chases and swims through the house. No fish but he comes up saying "Ho Keenan you pushing my luck today!" haha. We decide to turn around as its nearly 12:30pm.
I see Jesse bolt and he laters tells me he saw a nice ulua. We continue to swim back and I see JP drop again. A blue whiptail swims up from the reef and JP is on it. He connects and another uhu is added to the stringer. We hit the bay and the water seems to be much clearer and calmer than in the morning. We both get on shore safely, swap more laughs, stories and rest under a shady tree.
The Dark Knight rises! Hopefully we can continue to get more dives in!
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