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Kaunakakai Harbor

The rule for this water, with the receipt.

Special regulations for Kaunakakai Harbor, as the state words them

HI County · River · HI

Has its own special rules
How to read this page:Official text quoted regulationParsed fields from the ruleDerived calculated from rulesContext conditions, not a ruleAdvice our suggestion

The rules for this water, verbatimOfficial text

Straight from HI's official regulations. Rules in force today lead; out-of-season rows are dimmed. Nothing is paraphrased. Not legal advice: verify the posted rules at the water.

Whole water
  • baitfishin season (dates as written)
    Gear thrownet or pole and line; nets a) with a permit from the Board of Land and Natural Resources, b) with clearance from the Department of Transportation, and c) except at night when nets may not be set, nor remain in the water unless to complete unloading fish
    Permitted within Area 1A, fishing with thrownet or pole and line; taking baitfish in season, with a bait license; and fishing with nets per conditions
  • All fish
    Gear thrownet or pole and line
    Permitted within Area 1B, fishing with thrownet or pole and line
  • shrimp
    Gear pole and line; hand nets no longer than 3 feet in any dimension
    Permitted within Area 2, fishing with pole and line; using hand nets no longer than 3 feet in any dimension to take shrimp or land fish already hooked
  • All fish
    Gear nets except as described above
    Prohibited within Area 1A, using nets except as described above; obstructing passage of vessels
  • All fish
    Gear any type of net except thrownet
    Prohibited within Area 1B, using any type of net except thrownet
  • All fish
    Gear any type of net, except hand nets as described above
    Prohibited within Area 2, using any type of net, except hand nets as described above

Statewide base layerParsed

These defaults apply where the rules above do not modify them.

Season
Not captured yet - consult the statewide regulations
Gear
Not captured yet - consult the statewide regulations
Bait
Not captured yet - consult the statewide regulations
Poles
Not captured yet - consult the statewide regulations

Where the verbatim rules above name a species, season, or limit, they replace the rows below. Each row is tagged with the layer it comes from.

SpeciesDaily limitSize
fish
See sizemin. not less than one and one-half inchesStatewide
akule
Varies by water: limit more than 3 days without notifying the department (commercial marine licensee)
See sizemin. lay net less than 2¾" stretched mesh (unlawful); surround net less than 2½" stretched mesh (unlawful); bag net less than 1½" stretched mesh (unlawful)Statewide
shrimp and ‘opae
See sizemin. no minimum mesh sizeStatewide
fish or aquatic life specimens
combined total of 5 fish or aquatic life specimens-Statewide
freshwater game fish
one bag per day-Statewide
bottomfish
combined total of five bottomfish-Statewide
Onaga and ‘ōpakapaka
See sizemin. one poundStatewide
Largemouth bass
10 (total lg & smmouth) - Catch and release only in Wahiawā PFA - Special provisions for Wailua Res. PFAmin. 9 inches - Catch and release only in Wahiawā PFA - Special provisions for Wailua Res. PFAStatewide
Smallmouth bass
10 (total lg & smmouth) - Catch and release only in Wahiawā PFA - Special provisions for Wailua Res. PFAmin. 9 inches - Catch and release only in Wahiawā PFA - Special provisions for Wailua Res. PFAStatewide
Channel catfish
3min. NoneStatewide
Rainbow trout
10 - May differ for Kōke‘e, Kaua‘i, as announcedmin. None - May differ for Kōke‘e, Kaua‘i, as announcedStatewide
Tucunare
3 - Catch and release only in Wahiawā PFA - Special provisions for Wailua Res. PFAmin. 12 inches - Catch and release only in Wahiawā PFA - Special provisions for Wailua Res. PFAStatewide
Oscar
3 - Special provisions for Wahiawā PFAmin. 10 inches - Special provisions for Wahiawā PFAStatewide
Bluegill sunfish
None - Special provisions for Wailua Res. PFAmin. None - Special provisions for Wailua Res. PFAStatewide

How this answer was assembled

  1. StatewideStatewide river rules are the base layer: default season, gear, bait, and limits.
  2. This waterSpecial rules written for this exact water replace the statewide defaults where they speak.
  3. Emergency orderEmergency orders in effect today override everything else. They sync quietly when the phone has coverage and never lock you out of the app.

Where this stretch begins and ends

This water is not yet drawn on the map. Its rules are captured and receipted; the geometry ledger records exactly why it is not drawn (an ambiguous name match or a gap in the source data), and it will never ship as a guess. Each rule above describes in the state's own words where it applies, and those written descriptions are the authoritative boundaries.

What are you fishing for here?Advice

Pick from the species named in Kaunakakai Harbor's rules. Setups are checked against the gear rules in force today, and your picks are remembered on this device only. These are rule-aware suggestions, not a claim about what is biting; advice, not law, and the rules above govern.

Receipts

Statewide rules
Statewide
HI official fishing regulations
Checked against this official source on July 12, 2026.
Special rules - Kaunakakai Harbor
This water
HI official fishing regulations
Checked against this official source on July 12, 2026.

Local services near Kaunakakai Harbor

Tackle shops, guides, and boat launches that serve this water will appear here - a separate lane below the rules, so a local business can reach you without ever getting between you and the regulation.

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