Old friend Parke Barlesheimer came to fish and hunt Kona again this year. He has fished with me for over 10 years now and we have had some good days. One of his early best days was he shot 2 nice tom turkeys one morning and Pat fisher of Fisher Outfitters called me at home to see if I could get Parke out fishing to fill in the rest of his day. We went out at about 10:00 and had 5 shots at spearfish the last one got stuck for the World record on 16 pound line. Last year Parke caught a 940 on the Marlin Magic with Marlin Parker and Jason Holtz. He is fishing with them this week for some full moon big fish action trying to get his Pacific Blue over 1000. The spring full moons are good times to try.
He has caught 11 grander Blacks in Australia and recently caught a swordfish on 80 pound test that was over 500 pounds in New Zealand. He hunts and fishes the world so it is always good to hear about all of his adventures when we get together. We had some good luck on the turkeys again this year. We called a tom up and he got hung up with hens so Parke stalked his way close enough to get a shot. We got our second bird down low when he answered a call we made from the truck. He came up to us after a stalk to the call and we got him completing Parke’s turkey limit his first morning.
