Famous chef George Faison chartered the boat for his good friend Lucy’s birthday. We checked out the buoy that we had had such good fishing at. The new traveled fast and the traffic had put the fish off a bit. There were still marks there but we had a couple of half hearted bites that …
The David family of Hollywood, Florida had one of the best days of fishing that I have ever seen here or anywhere for that matter. We had a unusually late start 8:30 in the morning. We started south in front of town and saw some boats hook early fish. We worked the area and raised …
Masa’s second day we spent on the grounds off of the airport. We got word that outside the grounds was really shaping up. A number of boats had good luck late in the afternoon so we went up to have a look. After 15 minutes trolling we caught our first fish of the day. We …
One of Japan’s top anglers Masaharu Masushita fished with us. He was here for the HIBT and fished on the Kona Game Fishing Cub- Miake. Masa kept a streak of fish going catching 1 of 4 fish we saw early in the day. Right off the bat we had our second marlin we saw of …
Day 2 of Chris and Callie’s trip started with the smell of bananas. I smelled it and as if I was shot in the chest I said,”You know bananas are bad luck.” Chris almost choked on his third bite and quickly ran the peals to the dumpster. With the 3 bites down the hatch we …
Chris and Callie Sheilds came back to fish with us at a better time of year. They fished with us this spring and although the fishing was good we only could give it one day and didn’t catch a fish. I felt good coming off a good tournament and having the idea of less boats …
The Richard Boone Award is to be awarded to the Captain and Crew of the charter boat receiving the highest scores rated by the teams during the week. The Northern Lights was chosen by the teams that fished on it to have the honor of being chosen the third. We thank all the teams for …
Going into the last day we need to get something stuck. We started the last day with Team Lantana of Florida. Because of the action down south on day 4 a bunch of the boats came south. We ran in front of the pack and set the lines and today we took the 500 fathom …
Today we drew the Sports fishing club of the British Isles. We had a great day of fishing but couldn’t hook anything. The fish went wild jumping all over the ocean and would come off. One in particular early in the day jumped 20 times and we still pulled the hook. Some of the teams …
Ray Diaz did it again with a really nice blue. Ray’s first day we caught a bunch of Mahi Mahi at a great floater.There were 100’s of mahi mahi around a net and we caught a nice load in between the big game fishing we did for the day. The tuna would n’t bite in …
Scott the host of Trijicon’s “Game Chasers” filmed a few shows here in Kona mostly hunting with Pat Fisher of Fisher Outfittiers. They filmed segments of hunting the Black Hawaii sheep, The spanish goats and flew to Molokai to hunt Axis Deer. They had great hunting and got the footage for their shows. They had …
We fished a mini private tournament that host 16 anglers by 8 boats for a 50 pound test tournament. The event was put together by Tim Hicks on boat Illusions. The marlin bite came on for the 3 day event and the boats saw good numbers of fish. On the first day of the tournament …
Guests of the Japan Rotary Club fished with Club member and host Kent Nakamaru on the Northern Lights. Kent my dad spent time with the Japan Rotary Club a number of times with my mom and the exchange has been rewarding for both sides seeing each other home lands and sharing the fellowship of the …
Friends Mike fisher and Zadoc Brown came over from maui to fish with on the Northern Lights. Our friend Hal Westbrook of Oregon joined them as we went looking for the same dolphin pod we had yesterday. We had high hopes for another blind bite like we had yesterday. Sure enough we did and missed …
Ed Clock and his son were here hunting with Pat Fisher of Fisher Outfitters and came out for a day with us after shooting 2 nice goats. We went off shore and looked for the dolphin pods and could find them all morning. About 11:00 we had a blind strike on a big tuna that …