My wife Elizabete (far right)and her friends, Carrie,Asha, and Deziree fished the 14th annual Wahine tournament on the Northern Lights this year. I came to the conclusion that the girls had more fun planning and getting ready for the event than fishing the actual tournament. It was the first time Elizabete has fished the tournament …
Famous chef George Faison chartered the boat for his good friend Lucy’s birthday. We checked out the buoy that we had had such good fishing at. The new traveled fast and the traffic had put the fish off a bit. There were still marks there but we had a couple of half hearted bites that …
The David family of Hollywood, Florida had one of the best days of fishing that I have ever seen here or anywhere for that matter. We had a unusually late start 8:30 in the morning. We started south in front of town and saw some boats hook early fish. We worked the area and raised …
Masa’s second day we spent on the grounds off of the airport. We got word that outside the grounds was really shaping up. A number of boats had good luck late in the afternoon so we went up to have a look. After 15 minutes trolling we caught our first fish of the day. We …
One of Japan’s top anglers Masaharu Masushita fished with us. He was here for the HIBT and fished on the Kona Game Fishing Cub- Miake. Masa kept a streak of fish going catching 1 of 4 fish we saw early in the day. Right off the bat we had our second marlin we saw of …
Day 2 of Chris and Callie’s trip started with the smell of bananas. I smelled it and as if I was shot in the chest I said,”You know bananas are bad luck.” Chris almost choked on his third bite and quickly ran the peals to the dumpster. With the 3 bites down the hatch we …
Chris and Callie Sheilds came back to fish with us at a better time of year. They fished with us this spring and although the fishing was good we only could give it one day and didn’t catch a fish. I felt good coming off a good tournament and having the idea of less boats …
The Richard Boone Award is to be awarded to the Captain and Crew of the charter boat receiving the highest scores rated by the teams during the week. The Northern Lights was chosen by the teams that fished on it to have the honor of being chosen the third. We thank all the teams for …
Going into the last day we need to get something stuck. We started the last day with Team Lantana of Florida. Because of the action down south on day 4 a bunch of the boats came south. We ran in front of the pack and set the lines and today we took the 500 fathom …
The Kona Game Fishing Club-Miake fished on the Northern Lights on the 4 the day of the tournament. The bite seemed to be moving south. We trolled our way down the inside combing the shoreline in 300 fathoms. The 300 fathom line is right against the rocks and we looked to shake off the hard …
Today we had the Pajaro Valley Game Fishing Club Team number 1 on board. This team goes way back in the tournaments history and won the tournament 2 times. At 20 minutes into the second day we hooked up on 50. The fish jumped and jumped as we got the lines clear. We got he …
Today we drew the Sports fishing club of the British Isles. We had a great day of fishing but couldn’t hook anything. The fish went wild jumping all over the ocean and would come off. One in particular early in the day jumped 20 times and we still pulled the hook. Some of the teams …
Today kicked off the 50th anniversary of the Hawaiian International Bill fish Tournament. We drew the Hilton Grand Vacations Fishing Club- Japan for our first day. The drawing of the teams has all the teams switching boats everyday to keep the field of competition as fair as possible. It allows the charter fleet to connect …
Nice blue that our friends needed help bringing in this fish that weighted 828. The bill on this one was huge. It was a long fight and she came up dead tail wrapped.
Jay’s dad who just turned 85 years young caught a small blue 10 minutes from the harbor once again at 7:00 in the morning. We actually got to stay out until 12:00 today and had 2 more blue bites. We rigged up a Polu Kai 12 inch instigator and it went off 5 minute later. …