Today we headed south and released a fish before 7:00am. It was nice to get one right away. We went to work an area we wanted to fish and it turned out that was where everyone wanted to fish so we kept heading further south than I wanted to. We went 1 for 3 way …
Izzy Ribinski caught the new biggest tuna of the year on the Northern Lights. We had a really tough day to begin with. It was hard to get the baits to the boat and the dolphins would steal them when we would finally get the good ones. We ran from the dolphins and finally got …
Jake caught this blue early. It put on a good show at the boat. We live baited after lunch and missed a blue. We trolled around the area right away and got it to bite. It jumped off after it took a little line. The bite on the Kona Coast continues. The fleet is catching …
Izzy and Jake Ribinski came to fish with us and we got off to a great start. Mat had the 37 out today with the Milani family so Shawn helped us today. Here you see Shawn and Jake with a nice ahi one of 3 that we caught first thing in the morning. We lost …
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.
Return customer Brett Tessier came back to try for a big one this week. We gave it 3 days and didn’t get the big one but caught some good fish to eat. We enjoyed our time with them and look forward to the next trip.
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.
