On Saturday, angler Ernie Schroeder pulled up the heaviest kahala (amberjack) weighed here in over 5 years. Ernie caught his 124-pounder while bottom-fishing on the charterboat Night Runner with Capt. Shawn Rotella and crew Jah Nogues. When the fishing is … Continued
Rizzuto 50 12/07/15 A triple ono strike in December? The ono seem to have it backwards. Where were they back in May and June? Late spring and early summer are when you expect ono to hit in bunches but they … Continued
By a great stroke of good luck, I was in Honolulu on June 10, 1970 when the biggest marlin ever caught on rod and reel came into Kewalo Basin. The news reached me on the UH campus where I was doing … Continued
I wrote this article for my column on May 29, 2006. Since then it has been pirated by others and either used without attribution or published with someone else’s byline. You can be assured that this is the original, with a … Continued
Last week’s biggest Kona fishing story happened half a world away. While fishing at Ascension Island in the South Atlantic, Kona gal Jada Holt boated a 1,305-pound Atlantic blue marlin. Jada’s giant has been submitted to the International Gamefish Association … Continued
Fishermen say it all of the time: “I’d rather be lucky than good.” But does it have to be one or the other? Last week, Arnie Wolfe tied for biggest ono of the year by being good and lucky. Here’s … Continued
Rizzuto 47 11/16/15 On Thursday, Robert Ventura and his buddy Adrian Agcaoili took Robert’s 17-foot Boston Whaler out to F-buoy to try for the usual types of small game that hang around the FADs. He was hoping to catch fish … Continued
Kona blue marlin fishing in 2015 has been remarkable by any measure, whether you are counting the number of granders or the number of fish tagged and released. As we count up the November catch for 2015, here is a … Continued
THE RECORD THAT ALMOST WAS Jan Martic has been chasing light-tackle world records for decades. Perhaps her greatest accomplishment came ten years ago, when she caught a 642-pound blue marlin on 20-pound-class line to set the Ladies’ 20-class Pacific blue … Continued
Two weeks ago, kayaker Jared Willeford hooked a huge sailfish outside Keauhou and battled it from 8 a.m. until dark. During the 11-hour fight, the unrelenting fish pulled him down the coastline to Hookena. Dehydrated and suffering from heatstroke, the … Continued