Well basically I came up with a result. There are bone fish on virtually every beach and you certainly don't need a guide, just a car. However they are pretty scarce, the reason being every local who heads for the beach sets up two or three beach casters with bait and fishes for them.
I caught a small bone right outside the Sheraton yesterday evening by wading out along the sea wall. Everyone tells me the place to go for the most Bones is the Hawii Kai Beach, where I caught two and a small Barracuda. This is the best flat because it is about two miles long and goes out almost half a mile so there are plenty of places for them to hide.
But because the island is crowded every beach has surfers or families so the pressure on the fishing is strong. When I fished Hawaii Kai beach there were half a dozen fly fisherman and a dozen or so bait fishers. That was on a beach which actually is not a great beach for anything other than fishing. So this is definitely not the place for wilderness fishing ....... maybe that is the other islands.
Amazingly I was talking to one local who was fishing for bones because he reckoned they were the best live bate for Jack trevally's and Barracuda. But most of the locals fish for them because they love to eat them. Also the locals think fly fishing is plain daft, much to much effort for little amounts of fish. So the local evening fisherman if they are on their own may do a bit of spinning as well as beach casting but that is it.
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