Alaska Day 3 The bite is on
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).
Alaska Day 2- Blue Skies
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 …
Alaska Day One
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. …
Spearfish is a Marlin’s Lunch
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 …
Geza Gets a Big One
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 …
Mix Bag
1 for 6 What?
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 Has Another Great Day
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.
Great days with Rocky
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 …
We Got The Best Out of That One
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
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 …
2 for 2
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.
Overnight with Bruce Alden
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 Is Back!
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 …
O for 3 on Spears
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 …