Happy Birthday Shawn
Shawn shared his birthday with us on the Northern Lights. He caught this nice Ulua and a nice ahi early on a live bait. We fished bait most of the day and about mid day caught a 80 pound Striped Marlin. Happy Ninth.
Laryssa Unleashed Catches a Stripey
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 Gets a Stripey on the Fly
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 …
Father Daughter Team Gets ’em
Father Daughter team Dayton And Monya came to hunt and fish on the Big Island with us. We started our 2 days together fishing a half day on the Northern Lights. We looked at the grounds and it looked good and we marked fish but didn’t get any bites. We worked our way back south …
Double Trouble
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.
Banner Trip for Curtis Wells
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
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 …
Mat Bowman Due Back
Mat Bowman on one of last duck hunting days before he heads back to Kona. We are looking forward to Mat coming back to help out this season again. We are fixing to get busy soon so I think his timing is right on track.
Andre get the biggest of 2011
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 …
Noklby’s almost get one
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 …
My Apologies
I apologize for my posts being late this season. It has been a great year with a ton of good action. We have been in the field so much working that it has been really hard to get in the office. I have been hoping to have the trips and stay busy fishing and hunting …
Boat Work Begins- Let It Shine
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 …
Boat Work Begins- Ready for Stain
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 …
Boat Work Begins-Stripping Varnish
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 …
A Halloween Birthday
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 …