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 …
George and his family fished with us with tuna in our sight. We found a slow moving pod of dolphins and got the first pass trolling our lures in them which lately is a good pass to catch the first tuna in the school for the day. We got a great bite long and missed …
Danielle caught this potential Junior record Pacific Bigeye tuna on the Northern Lights. She was here with her family and looking for the Junior record Blue Marlin. We stumbled on these Bigeyes and she and her sister each caught potential records. This bigeye beat her little sisters tuna minutes later by about 20 pounds. We …
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Doug and Reece Andersen and friends jake and Phil joined us for the Rock and Reel tournament this weekend. We had a great first day leading the 500.00 daily until the last hour of the tournament with a spearfish tag. Right after we let the spearfish go a really nice fish came to the short …
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 …
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-
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 …
My dad fished with us his birthday and caught this nice stripy. We bait a switched this one and it got all tangled up after we hooked the fish. It was the second fish of a double. We had a stripy on the long rigger and we pitched the bait trying to poach it off …
Ken Killian of Alaska caught this nice Striped Marlin in the fly with us on the Northern Lights. We got hooked up on the second Stripey that came to the pattern. We teased him to the corner and got the fish to switch. After a 15 minute fight we got the fish by the bill …
Father Daughter team Dayton And Monya came to hunt and fish on the Big Island with us. We started our 2 days together fishing a half day on the Northern Lights. We looked at the grounds and it looked good and we marked fish but didn’t get any bites. We worked our way back south …
An Andre and Judy Pachon came to fish with us on the Northern Lights this Fall at the end of the year. Knowing it was the end of our season they came with low expectations and a great happy go lucky attitude. They understand the nature of the sporting game hunting and fishing back at …
Tday Chip Van Mols and I took out the Noklby Family for a day fishing on the 40 foot Gamefisherman. We had a long day of trolling until we saw a really nice fish come to the short bait. It came up all over the lure and didn’t bite. It looked well over 500 but …
I apologize for my posts being late this season. It has been a great year with a ton of good action. We have been in the field so much working that it has been really hard to get in the office. I have been hoping to have the trips and stay busy fishing and hunting …
We had the pleasure of fishing with the top notch fishing team from New Zealand. The team fishes ultra light tackle for fish far about the ratio of the line. They had broken over 20 billfish records most of them in the last few years. Capt. John Batterton has been an old friend for years …