Dom Porcelli Gets His Billfish Slam Done
Dom Porcelli Had an interesting 4 days with us to say the least. Our mission was to get Dom’s billfish slam caught. We started by catching bait and this nice uku in the morning. Then we went offshore and a half an hour in to our day we caught the spearfish accomplishing Dom’s goal to …
Laurel Gets Another Record
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 …
David Brashear gets a nice double
David Brashear hunted the Big Island of Hawaii with Hawaii Safaris and got this nice Black Hawaiian Sheep and Spanish Goat.
Aloha Uncle John
Flags fly At half rigger to honor the recent passing of veteran Captain John Lanes Sr. It is a great loss to the Kona fleet. The patriarch of the well known Llanes family , Llanes fished the Kona coast most of his life fishing with many of the legends of charter fishing here in Kona. …
Curtis Slam Out
Curtis Wells coming off of catching a 538 blue and having a good day of bottom fishing caught a Billfish Grand Slam today. We caught a small blue marlin first on the stinger. Mat fixed the lure and sent it back out. With one line out a striped marlin bit. It took about 4 tries …
Randy Wyrick gets a nice Hawaiian Ibex
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 …
Day Two Tuna Adventures
The fishing on Day 2 was good. There were fish caught around us and we had fish under us all day. We had an early strike and fought the fish for an hour. The swivel came up and we were reaching for the leader and the main line broke right in the guides. It was …
Cheney Gets a Nice Ram
Cheney came over from Florida to visit Kauai and set up a last minute Sheep hunt. We had a half day to try due to the the flight schedule from Kauai to the Big Island. I thought we would have a good chance to get on the sheep in the afternoon but when I saw …
Team Polu Kai
Rabinsky Day 5
Today we went back the the grounds Mat had a trip on the 37 so Capt.Brian Balencio filled in with us today. We trolled up and didn’t get any bites. We changed over to bait early and caught a nice blue on our first set of baits. We marked a bunch of fish down deep …
Nice Blue
Today return customer Ron Rudrud fished with us. We finally got a big fish to stick. After numerous shots at big ones it felt good to finally get this one to stay on. We actually missed him once and got her stuck on the second try. Ron did a great job angling and the pictures …
Bad Luck
Check out this beetle that got stuck on the barbed wire fence. With the big winds we have this beetle bit the dust when he got stuck on the fence. Sorry for the blurry picture.
Tuna action
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.