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 …
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 …
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 …
Huntress Laryssa fished with us on the Northern Lights and caught a Stripey. She is usually hunting all over the world filming her show Laryssa Unleashed. She does do some fishing and on this trip got out and caught a Marlin. Perhaps next trip she will do some hunting here with us at Hawaii Safaris. …
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 …
Here you see a crazy double blue we caught recently. It was hard to make sense of for a minute but in the end we tagged two little blues. After a long day of trolling 2:30 brought us the day saver.
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 …
Right when you thought you have seen it all some thing happens out there at sea that has you in shock. We had trolled all day with no bites and I saw the chance to flip some live baits to some tuna under a floater. After a few passes Mat got bit. We struck the …
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 …
Here the first coats are on. With taking the prep sanding down so smooth it is shining early in the job. I took the table home to my shop where I sprayed about 12 coats of Imron clear over it. I sprayed 6 coats on the first day . I sanded flat and …
Here you see the wood stripped and some of the stain applied. It felt good to get to this stage. Once the stain goes on it is down hill from here. We use a filler stain that stains the mahogany and helps fill the grain. It is nice to get a good uniform color throughout …
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 …