We fished a mini private tournament that host 16 anglers by 8 boats for a 50 pound test tournament. The event was put together by Tim Hicks on boat Illusions. The marlin bite came on for the 3 day event and the boats saw good numbers of fish. On the first day of the tournament …
Guests of the Japan Rotary Club fished with Club member and host Kent Nakamaru on the Northern Lights. Kent my dad spent time with the Japan Rotary Club a number of times with my mom and the exchange has been rewarding for both sides seeing each other home lands and sharing the fellowship of the …
Friends Mike fisher and Zadoc Brown came over from maui to fish with on the Northern Lights. Our friend Hal Westbrook of Oregon joined them as we went looking for the same dolphin pod we had yesterday. We had high hopes for another blind bite like we had yesterday. Sure enough we did and missed …
Ed Clock and his son were here hunting with Pat Fisher of Fisher Outfitters and came out for a day with us after shooting 2 nice goats. We went off shore and looked for the dolphin pods and could find them all morning. About 11:00 we had a blind strike on a big tuna that …
Jason Hayashi of hilo and his friends had an interesting day on the Northern Lights. We headed south to look for the dolphin pods of tuna and found a floater the had the same small Mahi Mahi that we found for the girls the day before. We caught 25 or 30 and while we were …
We were having breakfast on a calm Saturday morning at home and we got a call from our friends on the “Salty Dog that they had found a floater that had a bunch of Mahi Mahi on it. I called Matt and checked to see if he wanted to have a family day with us …
Pat Fisher of Fisher Outfitters(See Hawaiisafaris.com) Brought his family out on the Northern Lights for a family day and found a net full of nice sized Mahi Mahi. My good friend Brian Balencio a Mahi Mahi master happen to be with us to help us catch 20 big Mahi Mahi. The sharks were bad chasing …
Matt Bowman started off with a bang as our new mate after Tracy flew out yesterday. Bruce and Ellen Meyer of Texas found great fishing going 6 for 7 on lures today. We started off with a 80 pound blue marlin off of the back side of the grounds. We worked our way south and …
May Brought a little bit of a crew change for us on the Northern Lights. Tracy Epstein is going to be spending the summer on the grander in Madeira Portugal on the Melton International traveling boat the Grander with Northern Light alum Jon boy and Jessica Kelmer this summer. To follow his adventure go Melton …
Pat Fisher of Fisher outfitters and his groups found fantastic Axis deer hunting on Molokai this season. These nice bucks were some of the first ones of the season. The groups saw good numbers of deer and in the early hunts the deer had growing to do being in velvet. The second group saw most …
After a few hard days of fishing in the southern porpoise school, we were given some inside scoop about the northern pile holding a lot of fish. Though we had the next day off from charter fishing, myself, Tracy my mate and a good friend and deck hand on the Huntress Mitch, loaded up the …
It seemed the entire island had heard about our catch and everyone wanted in on the action. Hal Westbrook and his family joined us for the day in hopes of getting in on the tunas before the bit the bite was over. We made our way out to where we thought the school would be. …
The first good day in the porpoise school with angler Gene Pence. We found the school running to the tsunami buoy with a friend of ours. We didn’t see the porpoise right away but the birds and the ahi jumping helped us zero in on the pod. We caught one trolling on our second pass …
We headed back to the same area we caught the blue the day before. The fish have moved out to the thousand fathom depth instead of being inside on the ledge. The morning started off with catching a 24 pound Mahi mahi. Soon after catching the Mahi a small blue grabbed our Polu kai jet …
Fishing has slowed quite a bit since the mad rush of blues and stripes we had in February. We headed out with a good return client of our john doe on a full day of fishing. We trolled most of the day in a good area that had been producing for us, but we couldn’t …