Laurel David caught another Potential World Record for the under 10 year old category. We actually fished the first day of the Skins tournament with Joe and Jim with no big bites The over all fishing for the fleet was really slow and with no “skins” caught it would be the first tag of the …
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.
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 …
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-
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 …
The Roth’s won the charter we donated to the Kona Hospital Foundation Auction and we were able to get the out for a full day. They were joined by their friends the Higgins who are active in help raise funds for the Hospital. We found a nice Stripey on the back side of the grounds …
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 …
Curtis Wells return customer and his buddy came to fish with us again this year. We got the trip off to a good start by catching this nice blue. We caught bait in the morning and headed off shore. I had heard the bite was deep so we shot for the 1200 fathom line where …
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 …
Today I started working on the boat. I started off slow by stripping the interior varnish. It was in pretty nice shape but was on the verge so I decided to strip the varnish entirely instead of trying to patch it here and there. It seemed at the start like I could bang it …
The Bergstedt family fished with us today on Halloween. It was Sharon’s birthday and we had a good day at sea to celebrate. We trolled down to the dolphins and fished the tuna stick most of the day. It was poor timing for the traffic. There were a lot of boats there which made it …
We had a nice couple of days of fishing focused on our goal. A spearfish. By this time word had spread of our quest. Everyone in the fleet was helping us try to find one but they weren’t to be found. At 2:30 in the afternoon on our last day we hooked another nice Blue …
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 …