The Northern Lights Keiki Tournament was a example of the right day for the right event. My mom picked the day and it proved to be the perfect day for the kids. The Northern Lights 40, Northern Lights 37 and the Lightspeed set out to get small fish for the keiki and what a day …
Mid July has been unusually good fishing for spearfish for us. We really haven’t been trying for them but they have really helped save a bunch of days for us with a billfish catch. The Harris family caught a double on the 18th among many others tagged for the month. It it funny when you …
Chris Allen and crew caught some Mahis and this nice ono. Here you see son Mike a foot taller this year with James and the ono. nweather. They caught a 500
Joe Sulton hunted and fished the Big Island with us this week. Joe and I hunted goats down south and found a herd down low. We made a good shot and the goat jumped off of the cliff side. It amounted to a long morning hike but we were back to the top by mid …
This Tournament season was a tough one for the fleet. Fishing was really tough with bad current and slow marlin fishing. The tuna fishing was good but the Marlin are late in coming so there was a bunch of slow round ups. It was still exciting because there were so many chances to win and …
Our good friends Jim and Janet Baldwin fished with us again this year. Frequent anglers here in Kona the Baldwins have caught a ton of fish here on many of the top boats in the harbor. We have fished together many times over the years so it was great to see them again. We caught …
Outdoorsman Raegan hunted and fished with us this week. We had 2 days of hunting planned for Black Hawaiian Sheep and Spanish Goats. We had a great hunt and got both animals we were looking for which opened up a day for fishing. I was booked on the 40 with the Baldwins so Mat and …
The David Family of Hollywood Florida are back for the summer this time. Capt Jimmy of Land H Sportsfishing, Debbi, James, and Laurel will be with us here until the end of Aug. On our first day back fishing this summer Laurel caught this nice Ahi on a live bait late in the afternoon. She …
Today was the annual Fireman’s Tournament. We donated the 37 Merritt and the 40 Gamefisherman to the tournament for all that our firemen do for us out there everyday. It is always a fun event and we are happy to be involved every year. I had the 40 out with Bill Bergin and his crew …
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 …
We fished the little one fishing tournament this week and had a tough time for the first time all year. It has been a great year for us this having consistent fishing from Jan until now. This last 4 days the fishing got tough for us. I fished the bait balls and Aku (skip Jack) …
Today we trolled up to to with no luc so we fished for some mid sized tuna using our tuna Stick and Live opleu (cigar minnows).Randy caught a few 30 40 pounders and this one that looked over 60. It was good fun while we fished for marlin. We got a couple of sharks on …
George and his family fished with us with tuna in our sight. We found a slow moving pod of dolphins and got the first pass trolling our lures in them which lately is a good pass to catch the first tuna in the school for the day. We got a great bite long and missed …
Danielle caught this potential Junior record Pacific Bigeye tuna on the Northern Lights. She was here with her family and looking for the Junior record Blue Marlin. We stumbled on these Bigeyes and she and her sister each caught potential records. This bigeye beat her little sisters tuna minutes later by about 20 pounds. We …
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Doug and Reece Andersen and friends jake and Phil joined us for the Rock and Reel tournament this weekend. We had a great first day leading the 500.00 daily until the last hour of the tournament with a spearfish tag. Right after we let the spearfish go a really nice fish came to the short …