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.
The fishing has been good to the sotuh so we planned a overnight trip. When the fishing is good at Milolii it is so nice to stay on the action for more time in the bite zone. We provisioned up for the 2 day trip and headed south. Mat and Bruce rigged up the lures …
Bruce Alden came back to Kona for his second trip of the season. He fished with a couple of my friends because we were booked. We had a great trip with him last year and hoped to do it again. Bruce had a bunch of lures over before he left to come over. They were …
Today Daryl and his family came out with us. News of James’s fish got to them and they wanted to see if they could get one like his. We trolled all over looking for the body of fish that we had been fishing. We looked more North of the area we had a couple of …
Today the Mathesens From Australia fished with us. we found that they had caught a nice fish here last year on another boat and they were looking forward to getting another one this year. We trolled down south on the 500 fathom line and when we reached Hookena we had a nice fish come up …
The David family has has had a great trip and it was going to be their last day of fishing before Jimmy went back to run his charter boat the Land H and the kids James and Laurel would start school. As we ate dinner we agreed that it had been a great trip and …
Had a fish come up short rigger today and bite the Polu Kai tube and jump off. We worked the area and had no other bites all day. The fishing has been good to the south up in tight. We watched a bunch of fish hooked but the fish won for the most part today.
James got another blue today keeping his streak alive. It was a good jumper.
Today we trolled up to the grounds and looked as far up as OTEC buoy trying to repeat last years trip with the David Family. The current was good on the front side but as we went back to the back side there was a rip that came from the outside and the current went …
James fished a lot of days with us before his turn came and even though it was tough at times to watch the fish get caught by my clients and his family. He showed great patience waiting for his turn in the chair. looking at the smile on his face when he got his turn …
After the great start yesterday Mat got the Davids out for a early morning first pass. The lures got set and within the first few minutes they had a perfect blue on for Laurel. One of their goals was to catch her first blue and it didn’t take long. With Jimmy on the leader they …