Fishing Ka'elepulu Pond in Honolulu County, Hawaii

• Overview

  Ka'elepulu Pond stands in Honolulu County, Hawaii. The bank gives way to open low country. It runs to roughly 64 acres — big enough to hold fish away from the bank, small enough to learn. Bank access stretches around 2.1 miles in total. Of the waters listed here in Honolulu County, this is the largest. Start from Enchanted Lake, 0.1 miles down the road. Honolulu sits 9.3 miles out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. The county line is nowhere near, so one local authority covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Ka'elepulu Pond

  We hold no survey for this water; read the slope of the shoreline instead. The tide is the timetable on this water; two hours either side of the change usually fish hardest. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Public wildlife records from this area list blackchin tilapia, mozambique tilapia and koi. Records show what people reported, not what is stocked. Fish Ka'elepulu Pond where the bottom changes rather than where it looks deep.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The year swings from about 71°F in February to roughly 78°F in September. Warm water year-round keeps fish moving through every month. Spring and autumn carry the fishing; summer squeezes it into the edges of the day. June to September is hot work, so the first and last hours are what count. Ka'elepulu Pond runs to its own calendar within the local pattern.

• Tackle & Baits

  Who may fish here is not settled in anything we hold. No dam controls it, and the level follows the season. A launch point is recorded some half a mile off. You can park half a mile away and walk in from there. There are toilets mapped about half a mile away. Where access is informal, keep it that way by behaving. Where the way in crosses private ground, ask first. Waikalua-Loko Fish Pond sits 3.5 miles off and takes the overflow. Signs at Ka'elepulu Pond carry more weight than any list.