Today we had Jimmy’s brother in law Trey and son Nate “Nate Dog” Miller had a great day to be honest by accident. We caught a spearfish to begin with out in the deep looking for the dolphins. We trolled away from where we caught the spear and minutes later we had a blue bite …
Today Larry Goldstein caught his spear on the way to his billfish slam. Having fished all over the world he has caught the world’s billfish species and got his spearfish here in Kona on the Northern Lights. It has been a great year for spears for us this year. They trickle in and we have …
Dr Mark Masunaga, son Tate and friend Dr Tom caught this nice ahi in the dolphins on the stick. We had a long wait while the tuna came from the depths where they could see us. Finally we got bit and caught this nice one. As soon as we caught this one we trolled north …
Today we ran south for a crew day to fish ahi and caught 2 nice ones. We caught one 180 high speed trolling and caught a 140 on the stick at one of the buoys. Mat got a couple of shots of the bite. You see the swirl of the bite on the squids and …
Laurel David caught a 36and a half pound Spearfish with Capt Mat and dad Capt Jimmy. They went out for an afternoon troll while I was out with the Binneys on the 37 and caught Laurel her 5th potential IGFA record for her age. it is her second on the trip on the Northern Lights. …
Peter Binney caught this blue before 6 am in the morning. It jumped a bunch at the boat but the light was so bad the shots weren’t great you can see how dark it is in the shots. we caught a magi soon after and missed 2 more blues that appeared to be hooked but …
Ron Willet friend of James “Bubba” Brown flew over from Oahu while on a family trip from Texas caught his first blue with us this week. We trolled in the morning missing a few blue on the grounds. We didn’t get good bites out of them so we went and caught a bait. We caught …
Today we had the Cunningham boys out with us. They were hunting with Pat and Steve on Lanai and got 4 nice deer before coming to see us here for some fishing. We found this whale shark while trolling off of Milolii. We swam with him for a bit before we started trolling again. We …
Today we caught this nice blue bait a switched this nice blue on the first wave today. james did a great job on the fish. I drove from the tower on this one to get a different look with the camera. The water was so clear it was easy to see the fish. Here you …
The Davids fished with us today. We found hard fishing in the morning. We couldn’t find the current. I didn’t know where to fish. I trolled north with no real plan in mind and saw a floater offshore. We caught a bunch a mahis and then caught a couple of aku for live bait. We …
Mid July has been unusually good fishing for spearfish for us. We really haven’t been trying for them but they have really helped save a bunch of days for us with a billfish catch. The Harris family caught a double on the 18th among many others tagged for the month. It it funny when you …
Chris Allen and crew caught some Mahis and this nice ono. Here you see son Mike a foot taller this year with James and the ono. nweather. They caught a 500
This Tournament season was a tough one for the fleet. Fishing was really tough with bad current and slow marlin fishing. The tuna fishing was good but the Marlin are late in coming so there was a bunch of slow round ups. It was still exciting because there were so many chances to win and …
Our good friends Jim and Janet Baldwin fished with us again this year. Frequent anglers here in Kona the Baldwins have caught a ton of fish here on many of the top boats in the harbor. We have fished together many times over the years so it was great to see them again. We caught …
Outdoorsman Raegan hunted and fished with us this week. We had 2 days of hunting planned for Black Hawaiian Sheep and Spanish Goats. We had a great hunt and got both animals we were looking for which opened up a day for fishing. I was booked on the 40 with the Baldwins so Mat and …