Angler Ty Meyer a good friend of the owner of the Northern Lights fished the Big Island Invitational with us. The Rob McCarthy fished on the Lightspeed and his 2 boats fished the tournament. We were on the fence on weather to team up on the Lightspeed or fish the 2 boats and with the way we had been fishing this week I felt that we had a really good chance to do well so we entered the 2 boats. Our plan was to catch big fish. It is a big fish tournament. To place in the over all you need to qualify a fish over 300 pounds. We stuck to our plan and staied where we had been seeing the big ones but the fishing had moved way outside to the 1500. Boats made their way out there from early reports of a couple of boats finding them out in a unusual spot. The boats protected the spot early on by not calling in the right area to protect the nest of fish they had found. It proved to be a good area for numbers and by the 3rd day most of the fleet covered the deep finding the stray marlin that had wandered out due to the bad current inside. On day 3 we raised a qualifier on the stinger. Our plan to catch a qualifier would pay out a good sum and the fish didn’t bite. It followed and followed and didn’t bite. The lightspeed also had a qualifier on day 2 that would have done well. In the end we had a great time and the light speed got one of the daily pots for one of their tags. For us it was humble fishing. Hopefully when the current come back to normal inside we will get back on them
