Oh, I've fished the inner reefs and shore on a charter type Panga, I've even helped drop and pull in a net or two that we set in the harbor before working the shore toward Cholla in 85/6, then we'd pulled it in on the way back to the harbor. We'd troll around the bay with everyone else (locals) at that time of the hot summer for bait for us and more for them to keep themselves; then we'd hit it. I used to just go down to the launch area at the safe harbor and ask a Pango owner if they wanted to take myself and the wife out to fish that shore area on an incoming tide. The reef off of Marua was a target at times too. I don't know of any reason why that wouldn't work these days as well. Ha, back in the day there were times when I'd sit out on the wall at the public launch site, and make the fishing pantomime with my hands at the cars passing just for fun. Ask around, and remember that what's needed most for these type of fisherman is gas, and they might even have to buy if first. Be humble, be nice, and make friends, and don't be a piker. Did I ever tell you about when I hooked up with a juvenile three to four-foot billfish along that stretch of the shore on a large white Stripped Bass type jig? Or about the huge Orange Mouth Corvina on a 4-inch Super Duper?
