Finally the weather in Kona settled down a notch. For the past few weeks our wind pattern has been out of the NE and its been making for rough fishing conditions. The wind switched to a more easterly direction today and we were able to get up to an area called the grounds. The bite …
The Weather has been getting worse and our charter for yesterday canceled. The weather today made for bumpy seas but noting that wasn’t fish able. Mark and Lynn joined us for their last day and we headed south to find calmer waters. The trolling was slow in the morning but that all changed around noon. …
This time Mark and his wife joined us by themselves for a fullday of fishing. We had warned them that the last day they had with us was something extraordinary. Mark wasn’t worried and as a great fishermen would say ” well if we don’t catch anything we’ll still have had a great day on …
Its not very often in Kona that the weather limits where we can fish, but Hawaii’s weather pattern for the last week has been very unstable. As we started our morning run up to the grounds the seas started to grow as well as the wind. Hal Westbrook a good return client joined us for …
After a great previous day on the grounds we headed back up there with a few local return clients of ours. After hearing the live bait bite worked well for others yesterday we decided to do the same. Bait was hard to catch, but after 40 minutes of trying we finally got our first set …
The weather had been snotty for a few days, and we were unable to fish up north where we’d been having good luck. On this sunny Monday morning the wind finally backed off and let us get to the fishing grounds where we’d been dying to get to most of last week. On our very …
Martha’s last day in her pursuit of a spearfish would unfortunatly come to an end without the result she was looking for. With only two seen and one hooked in six days it seemed she was meant to have to return for another try. Though day six would end with no fish caught it did …
Day five started out with a wild little blue right of the bat but then fizzle to nothing more than just a nice boat ride. Some days the fish bite better than others and this was just an off day. Other than catching the blue in the morning we wouldn’t see another thing all day. …
Day four the marlin finally got the best of us. We missed a small blue in the morning trolling by f buoy and than had a fish close to 400 try our long rigger a few times before taking off. In the afternoon we raised a huge fish that also tried our long rigger and …
On day three the weather made a turn for the worse. Our normal direction of winds are ENE but this day the wind switched to a more northerly component. Though the weather made the fishing quite uncomfortable the stripped marlin didn’t mind at all and we tagged three of them in the morning. As the …
If day one wasn’t exciting enough day two would end in an unforgettable bang. The action wasn’t as fierce as the day before but we still managed to catch two blues and a striped marlin before ten in the morning. Rob, the captain of the Lightspeed had joined us for the day to help out …
Martha and her husband Larry came to Kona in pursuit of catching Martha her last species of billfish to complete the Billfish slam. Short nose spearfish are usually the last species for an avid sport fisherman to catch and Martha had come all the way to Kona for just that reason. We started the week …
After a successful ram hunt the day before Jerry topped off his trip with us by catching a 220 blue marlin. We missed two spearfish a stripped marlin and another blue marlin before finally getting the hooks in one. (Originally posted on February 16, 2009)
Hal Westbrook caught this blue early in the morning outside of an area we call the grounds. After a great show close to the boat we released the fish as we do with 99 percent of them we catch. Shortly after catching the marlin we had a series of stripped marlin attacks but weren’t able …
3/4 day of trolling produced a rare and sought after shortnose spearfish. (Originally posted on February 5, 2009)