Here you see Dr Jack and son Kai ( age 11) catching ’em up. Kai caught the biggest salmon of the trip. (17 pounds) Looks like he is a chip off the old block. Dr Jacks wife Danni also caught a bunch of fish on the trip rounding out our family trip.
Here you see Amy with a nice salmon she caught. In the next photo you can see we had some work to do on our tackle before we went out after lunch. Next you see dad with a nice fly caught fish. The purple egg sucking leach was the hot ticket. The fly fishing was …
Here you see Elizabete and Beth with a nice salmon and you can see the fillets of salmon at the cleaning table. The nice pink fillets came from the fresh salmon that came from the ocean. They are still really silver and the flesh is still really pink and firm. We only kept the silver …
Here you see the fishing was great in the picture of our morning catch you see Beth(Far left) My dad Kent, then Amy, Karen, then me Kevin and my wife Elizabete (far right).
Today the weather broke and the skies opened up. My sister Karen took this great shot of the blue skies. Now we were fishing in the east river with a beautiful back drop. Here my wife Elizabete and I caught a nice double and Karen is here with her first Salmon of the trip. The …
After a long flight to Seattle we visited my Uncle Bruce that lives there on our way to Alaska. We had dinner at a great restaurant called Anthony’s. Great to see the my cousin Gary and his family. The seafood of the Northwest got us in the mood for the trip. Great food great dinner. …
Today Mat had Hal Westbrook out with his daughter Teal and friends and saw a National Geographic moment. They saw a spearfish coming for the stinger. It loped along behind the lure as they often do. They saw the spearfish and were waiting for the spear to grab the stinger and it disappeared into a …
Mat and Geza took the 37 today and caught a 250 blue right away on the short rigger. Once released they worked the area and caught a nice fish. It was a challenge with just the 2 of them on the boat but everything went well and a 700 plus blue was released in good …
Today we took out the 37 and ran a bit to get to a bite down south. The bite was a Milolii and we want to get fishing time there. An old friend Jeff Hara and his friends came out with us. We had our first bite at the TT buoy that bit the long …
Mat had another great day today. They caught a nice spearfish and released it and caught a blue Marlin in the dolphins. The tuna were in the dolphins but the small pod was too crowed to fish so they kept trolling. Nice to have both boats out.
Had a great couple days with Rocky. We missed a few nice fish the last one coming to the short bait which was around 350 or 400 pounds. It dropped back and bit the short rigger and jumped off. Rocky and Heidi flew out a couple hours after coming in. We owe Rocky one and …
Rocky and Heidi came to Hawaii for their honeymoon. They came from Trinidad where Rocky fishes on a 47 Cabo called the “Ringleader”. We fished South today and had a good day. We missed a nice fish first thing on the black Polu Kai tube jumping him off right away. We went all day mid …
The Great Marlin Race is on again this year. It is a race of Marlin tagged by sat tags. The marlin the travels the farthest wins. Sponsors of the tags are the contestants and it is a fun way to see the science of where the Marlin go. We put the tag in this Marlin …
Today we went 2 for 2 on a half day. We wanted to stay out but had to go in. The fish jumped a lot right at the boat.