The David Family of Hollywood Florida are back for the summer this time. Capt Jimmy of Land H Sportsfishing, Debbi, James, and Laurel will be with us here until the end of Aug. On our first day back fishing this summer Laurel caught this nice Ahi on a live bait late in the afternoon. She …
Today was the annual Fireman’s Tournament. We donated the 37 Merritt and the 40 Gamefisherman to the tournament for all that our firemen do for us out there everyday. It is always a fun event and we are happy to be involved every year. I had the 40 out with Bill Bergin and his crew …
We fished the little one fishing tournament this week and had a tough time for the first time all year. It has been a great year for us this having consistent fishing from Jan until now. This last 4 days the fishing got tough for us. I fished the bait balls and Aku (skip Jack) …
Today we trolled up to to with no luc so we fished for some mid sized tuna using our tuna Stick and Live opleu (cigar minnows).Randy caught a few 30 40 pounders and this one that looked over 60. It was good fun while we fished for marlin. We got a couple of sharks on …
Duncan Giddens fished Kona with us on the Northern Lights. We caught him on a live opelu outside Keauhou. His goal was to catch a big tuna and we completed the mission. We didn’t get his spear this trip but we will have something for us to chase next trip. Of all days to not …
Had a great half day charter and got these nice shots of a good blue. We tagged a Spearfish after the Marlin and were in by 12:00. the guys were able to catch a Marlin in the morning and the game in the afternoon.
Jacques Monteil of Waikoloa Village got this nice ahi while trolling on the 37 Merritt. Jacques has an unbelievable run of luck going. He has caught a bunch of fish with us as a guest of friends of the Ciege’s that own the 37. We have caught a bunch of marlin and this nice tuna. …
We saw this whale shark out there 1200 fathoms outside the harbor. We had a double spearfish bite not long later. We ended up working the area that the spears were and got bit on the short bait on a fish 400 or so. It jumped all over far away. I missed the good shots …
Patty and Vincent Carr fished with on their anniversary and caught this nice tuna. Their near perfect record continues with this nice tuna. They have shared some of their special occasions and always bring the kind of attitude and feeling that fish like. We caught this nice tuna in the south porpoise pod. There were …
We had the honor of fishing with a true legend in sport fishing. Joe Moore not to be confused with our local anchorman fished with friend Val Sousa. Both South Floridians they were vacationing here and came out fishing for two days. We caught Val 2 spears and Joe one releasing them all. It was …
Micheal Waugh fished with us in Kona again this month. The last time he came we got a 500 plus pound fish high speed trolling back from deep south late in the evening a couple years ago. We had a great day releasing 2 spearfish. Great to see him again.
Geza and Paul came out with us and caught this nice ahi and a spearfish. Here you see the ahi on Mat’s cutting table. Good sashimi-
Richard Capoza Hunted goats with us this season. He was here years ago and got a big Muflon ram that measured 36 inches. He brought his sons out to fish and hunt. We headed south and got a nice goat right away. We lost another nice goat over a cliff. We looked hard and didn’t …
Today we started off with this big Kahala then headed off shore to troll. We had a fish come up short and Mat switched the fish to a live bait. The fish took the bait and took off. The line went up the starboard side as line pealed off the reel. I headed towards the …