Bass Spawning In Hawaii

[SoCal2011]

Aloha fellow bass finders. When is largemouth bass spawning in Hawaii? I just recently moved back home to Kauai from SoCal and would like to know. Mahalo.

[WRB]

That is a good question . My guess Kauai is similar to Florida regarding tropical climate.

It's never cold enough to have seasonal periods but the bass do spawn. If the water drops into the high 50's and warms to the mid 60's around January that would be my guess.

Tom

[Big Hands]

Back in the 80's my wife and I rented a condo in the Princeville resort at Hanalei Bay on the north shore of Kauai right on the golf course with the shoreline right across the street. I was walking back to the condo from somewhere and I saw a young guy with a fishing rod and he was carrying a largemouth bass. I asked him where he caught the fish and he said he caught it in the bay, LOL. I basically called him a bald faced liar and explained that largemouth bass don't live in the ocean. He finally cracked and admitted that he caught it the golf course pond and lied because he was scared he'd get in trouble. He was using a casting bubble and a feathered hook and reeling it across the surface when the bass took it.

 

I checked out the Wailua River while I was there too, but didn't get the chance to fish it. It's supposed to have some bass. There might be some ponds in and around the cane fields down near the south shore if you can manage to get access. The interior of the island is a big mountain that averages something like  500+ inches of rain per year. One of the wettest spots on the planet. You can hardly ever see the peak because it's usually obscured by clouds, but all that runoff has to come down to somewhere, and I can personally testify that bass are present on the island ;~)