This year we partnered up with old friend and charter Chip Collins for this years World Cup. When Chip found out that he couldn’t make it he offered to put up the entry so we teamed up to try to win it. With the fishing good in Kona we felt that if the world didn’t …
Bubba Brown of Texas won second place in the Firecracker Open in Kona Hawaii on the Northern Lights. On Day one we caught a 200 pound blue that put us in 8th place on time. Going into day 2 we had the entire daily pots open in the big fish. I went north to get …
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Larry ,Gregs dad got these shots of a nice fish we got on the tide change in front of the harbor. The fish stayed close to the boat and put on a great show. The wide angle lens that Larry was using caught the whole show here. I saw the fish coming for the stinger …
Rick White veteran Captain came out with his family today. We had a great start catching this marlin right off the bat. We were trying to get to the dolphins to catch ahi and just couldn’t get there. Right after we caught the fish I worked the area and raised a monster on the stinger. …
Jim Burnsworth of the Outdoor Channel show Western Extreme hunted and fished with us here in Hawaii. He had good ahi fishing that he got on film. The first ahi he caught he jumped in with and swam with it. Jims’ son caught another ahi on the second day we fished along with a few …
The Sackmans mission was to catch a Wahoo. Alan loves to eat Wahoo and chartered 12 boats in the past and caught only one. We trolled the 40 fathom line in the morning and caught this nice one for him. It was good to get the mission done early. Wanting action, we fish a buoy …
Tsunami Day was actually Tsunami Night. Here you see Travis towing the forty back in in the morning. We found out at 9:30 at night that we had a tsunami headed our way after the action seen in Japan earlier in the day. The fleet here in Kona went to the harbor to get the boats out of the harbor. My problem was that I had 3 boats to move and one of me. Thankfully Travis Ota and Brian Balancio helped me move the boats out. Brian took the forty Gamefisherman and Travis and I took the 37 Merritt and Towed the 40 express Gamefisherman that was not able to be run because of work that was being done to it. We had good calm conditions out in front of the harbor where boats with their lights on turned the ocean into a city at sea. We waited until the the big serge came into the harbor. The harbor water level dropped very low and filled back up full. It came up very high but didn’t take any of the dock boxes with it. Over all we were very lucky The only damage was from boats that were left in the harbor through the serge. after surges really came in and messed up boats that came in right after the first surge. The early boats the tied up were fine. When the other boats around them came in and the surges started it made it a real challenge to get the boats in safe. The fleet really worked together and we came out of it very well. Places in town and down the coast line didn’t fare to well. Our prayers go out to japan and all those who were effected by the Tsunami.
Today we went out to try to catch gabby a stripey or a spearfish and had great luck. Uncle Pononui and Gabby’s friend Zane joined us. We caught zane a nice mahi and we had a bunch of little big eyes to eat. Gabby had a big spearfish right to the leader and it came off. She did a great job it just came off.
The rains are here. After a severe drought we finally are getting some rain. The leases look good again. It is the first time I am not grumbling for getting wet out there. The animals are going to be ok now. It is green again finally! Hunting has been tough because it is so green the animals patterns have changed and they are hard to see.
Jamie Spears and his wife Ann came to visit us again this year. Jamie and good friend Kent Kelly came to hunt and fish with us a couple years ago. They invited Pat Fisher of Hawaii Safaris and I to hunt at Kent’s ranch for elk and we both got real nice bulls. It was good to see Jamie again and was good he timed the fishing right. We caught this nice ahi in the south school after we tagged this spearfish. It was nice of him to sit still. The next shot is funny of him jumping in the water.
Today we started out front and worked our way to the grounds where we started their trip. It was a slow morning so I worked my way south on the outside down to Kaiwi and the VV buoy area. We found the current to be slow and barely moving. When I decided to try to …
We had budgeted 5 days to complete our mission and we had 3 days booked for sure with 2 possible day ready if we needed them. We went up to the grounds for day 4 and would call it a trip now that we had the spear caught. On our first set of baits in …
Fishing was slow the day of the Expo and I told Jimmy that if he needed a day with the family that it was fine with me to do something on shore.Our plan was to get out sail fishing on the L and H with Jimmy’s family along with his mate Wes. Jimmy said “No,No …