Have you ever heard of the “haul-out/hook-up connection”? You haul your boat out for routine maintenance and repairs. After you put it back in service, you hook up your biggest fish of the year. Makes sense if you figure that … Continued
Kona’s “100 Blues Club” is a small and very selective group. Over the history of sportfishing here, only a few charter captains have caught 100 blue marlin during a single year. On Thursday, the sportfishing boat Raptor joined the club … Continued
If lure brands make a difference, then every fishing day is an informal lure-maker’s challenge. It’s one simple challenge to see if your lure will even catch a fish and a more exciting challenge to see if it will catch … Continued
Black marlin are extremely rare here, which you can tell by following our “Big-Fish List.” The black marlin slot has been empty all year so far. The few caught off Kona since January were either not weighed or not reported. … Continued
If you are having trouble hooking big fish, think small. Capt. Kenny Fogarty has been running a 7-inch blue bullet in his pattern behind Makana Lani. That’s small enough to be gulped by the 10-pound mahimahi that grabbed it Wednesday … Continued
Thunder, lightning, torrential rain, flash flooding, roads turned into rivers, even some scattered blasts of hail — last week we had it all. How did Kona’s mini-monsoon affect your fishing? As seen in many fishing stories last week, the … Continued
For long stretches of the year, the billfish report was dominated by 100- to 300-pound blue marlin. Female blues grow much bigger than males, which rarely top 300 pounds, so the catch has been predominatly fully mature males. When few, … Continued
In the months ahead we may finally learn the answer to our most frequently asked question about the effect of weather on fishing in Hawaii. Meterologists are predicting what might be the strongest El Nino on record. It comes … Continued
Kona, August 18, 2015. The charter boat Northern Lights II brought in a 1,075-pound Pacific blue marlin on Tuesday afternoon to record Kona’s fourth grander of 2015. Previously, Ihu Nui weighed a 1,058-pounder in February, Luna a 1,266.5-pounder in May, … Continued
It’s hard to tell whether you have set a record if you don’t know what the old record was. It is even harder when you don’t know what your new claim is. But let us allow none of that to … Continued