Today was the start of the 20th annual Tag and Release Tournament. Today the host of the tournament started with us. We headed north up to the grounds where the bait and birds started to build due to the good north current we have now. The trades are up and the swells were big. We …
Today Gabby tried for her first Marlin again. With the fish here I hoped she would get her first one. We trolled all day with no bites. Again we had current trouble and had to look for current for the TART Tournament this coming week. The current was good to the north so I worked …
Today we took friends of Geza and Paul and trolled south looking to repeat yesterday’s fishing. I trolled down to Hookena and saw that the current was dead as we went south so I stayed up by Red Hill and Keauhou. No bites by lunch so I headed back south to Hookena. We were trolling …
I had heard the marlin were here and I guess they are. Arnesto Koo of Panama came over from Maui and stayed at our vacation rental for the night before his trip so we could get a early start. Oskie Rice came in to filling for Mat while he is gone. He and I have …
Today was my first day back. I had heard the fishing was good on my way back so we put a trip together with Geza. My friend Brian Balencio who fishes with us a lot came with us to fish the dolphins. We started out by catching live bait early in the morning. Once it …
The night I got back from Alaska Mat had to fly out to get back to his business Maine Mobile Shrink wrap. (mainemobileshrinkwrap.com)in Maine where he works for the fall shrink wrapping boats. The process he does protects boats, water towers and high end homes from the winter weather. It is a good seasonal job …
Here you see Amy with a nice salmon she caught. In the next photo you can see we had some work to do on our tackle before we went out after lunch. Next you see dad with a nice fly caught fish. The purple egg sucking leach was the hot ticket. The fly fishing was …
Here you see Elizabete and Beth with a nice salmon and you can see the fillets of salmon at the cleaning table. The nice pink fillets came from the fresh salmon that came from the ocean. They are still really silver and the flesh is still really pink and firm. We only kept the silver …
Here you see the fishing was great in the picture of our morning catch you see Beth(Far left) My dad Kent, then Amy, Karen, then me Kevin and my wife Elizabete (far right).
Today the weather broke and the skies opened up. My sister Karen took this great shot of the blue skies. Now we were fishing in the east river with a beautiful back drop. Here my wife Elizabete and I caught a nice double and Karen is here with her first Salmon of the trip. The …
After a long flight to Seattle we visited my Uncle Bruce that lives there on our way to Alaska. We had dinner at a great restaurant called Anthony’s. Great to see the my cousin Gary and his family. The seafood of the Northwest got us in the mood for the trip. Great food great dinner. …
Today Mat had Hal Westbrook out with his daughter Teal and friends and saw a National Geographic moment. They saw a spearfish coming for the stinger. It loped along behind the lure as they often do. They saw the spearfish and were waiting for the spear to grab the stinger and it disappeared into a …
Mat and Geza took the 37 today and caught a 250 blue right away on the short rigger. Once released they worked the area and caught a nice fish. It was a challenge with just the 2 of them on the boat but everything went well and a 700 plus blue was released in good …
Today we took out the 37 and ran a bit to get to a bite down south. The bite was a Milolii and we want to get fishing time there. An old friend Jeff Hara and his friends came out with us. We had our first bite at the TT buoy that bit the long …