Jason Hayashi of hilo and his friends had an interesting day on the Northern Lights. We headed south to look for the dolphin pods of tuna and found a floater the had the same small Mahi Mahi that we found for the girls the day before. We caught 25 or 30 and while we were …
We were having breakfast on a calm Saturday morning at home and we got a call from our friends on the “Salty Dog that they had found a floater that had a bunch of Mahi Mahi on it. I called Matt and checked to see if he wanted to have a family day with us …
Pat Fisher of Fisher Outfitters(See Hawaiisafaris.com) Brought his family out on the Northern Lights for a family day and found a net full of nice sized Mahi Mahi. My good friend Brian Balencio a Mahi Mahi master happen to be with us to help us catch 20 big Mahi Mahi. The sharks were bad chasing …
Matt Bowman started off with a bang as our new mate after Tracy flew out yesterday. Bruce and Ellen Meyer of Texas found great fishing going 6 for 7 on lures today. We started off with a 80 pound blue marlin off of the back side of the grounds. We worked our way south and …
May Brought a little bit of a crew change for us on the Northern Lights. Tracy Epstein is going to be spending the summer on the grander in Madeira Portugal on the Melton International traveling boat the Grander with Northern Light alum Jon boy and Jessica Kelmer this summer. To follow his adventure go Melton …
After a few hard days of fishing in the southern porpoise school, we were given some inside scoop about the northern pile holding a lot of fish. Though we had the next day off from charter fishing, myself, Tracy my mate and a good friend and deck hand on the Huntress Mitch, loaded up the …
It seemed the entire island had heard about our catch and everyone wanted in on the action. Hal Westbrook and his family joined us for the day in hopes of getting in on the tunas before the bit the bite was over. We made our way out to where we thought the school would be. …
The first good day in the porpoise school with angler Gene Pence. We found the school running to the tsunami buoy with a friend of ours. We didn’t see the porpoise right away but the birds and the ahi jumping helped us zero in on the pod. We caught one trolling on our second pass …
We headed back to the same area we caught the blue the day before. The fish have moved out to the thousand fathom depth instead of being inside on the ledge. The morning started off with catching a 24 pound Mahi mahi. Soon after catching the Mahi a small blue grabbed our Polu kai jet …
Fishing has slowed quite a bit since the mad rush of blues and stripes we had in February. We headed out with a good return client of our john doe on a full day of fishing. We trolled most of the day in a good area that had been producing for us, but we couldn’t …
Finally the weather in Kona settled down a notch. For the past few weeks our wind pattern has been out of the NE and its been making for rough fishing conditions. The wind switched to a more easterly direction today and we were able to get up to an area called the grounds. The bite …
The Weather has been getting worse and our charter for yesterday canceled. The weather today made for bumpy seas but noting that wasn’t fish able. Mark and Lynn joined us for their last day and we headed south to find calmer waters. The trolling was slow in the morning but that all changed around noon. …
This time Mark and his wife joined us by themselves for a fullday of fishing. We had warned them that the last day they had with us was something extraordinary. Mark wasn’t worried and as a great fishermen would say ” well if we don’t catch anything we’ll still have had a great day on …
Its not very often in Kona that the weather limits where we can fish, but Hawaii’s weather pattern for the last week has been very unstable. As we started our morning run up to the grounds the seas started to grow as well as the wind. Hal Westbrook a good return client joined us for …
After a great previous day on the grounds we headed back up there with a few local return clients of ours. After hearing the live bait bite worked well for others yesterday we decided to do the same. Bait was hard to catch, but after 40 minutes of trying we finally got our first set …