This year was the eighteenth annual TART tournament. Ken Corday has been hosting the tournament since its beginning. Five boats including the Ihu Nui, Chiripa, Humdinger, Pacific Blue and the Northern Lights competed for five days to accumulate the most points for catching blue marlin. Every fish tagged is worth points, and a fish over …
Mid July had a great live bait bite only 15 minutes from the harbor. Baits were easy to catch at V V buoy and we would wander into the deep with live skipjack. We starting seeing the Ahi on the sounder and they would bite every other time. On the 16th of July Terry Fohey …
June of 2008 was a month to remember for night fishing. When Tracy and I weren’t taking charters on the Northern Lights we were fishing nights on Kulia my 29 foot Radon. In the 16 days we fished in June we caught 33 ahi. The lions share of these fish came at night. One such …
Catching two nice fish in two days is a pretty big feat to accomplish. On June 29th we tagged the first of the two blues for the wife and on the very next day we attempted to release the second fish for the husband, but unfortunately the marlin wasn’t able to survive. After being …
Blake is just one of those guys who brings every ounce of luck he has with him fishing. Year after year Blake comes to fish with us and no matter how slow the fishing may be he seems to have that special touch to make things happen. After fishing most of the morning outside of …
A great day in the porpoise. It was a busy day for my mate Jon Bennett. We changed lure back and forth 6 or 7 times before we ended up catching this 182 pound ahi on the first pass in the pod. We caught the second one on the tuna stick after fishing the pod …
Hal Westbrook (foreground) moments before releasing his first ever blue marlin. We had ran thirty miles to Tsunami buoy that day with nothing to show for it but luck happened to be on Hal’s side. While high speed trolling home from the buoy at a brisk fourteen knots this large blue crashed our short Polukai …
Some days were just meant to be special. After releasing a striped marlin in the morning for a first time young female angler we hooked into a large yellow fin for the dad. As if that wasn’t enough we managed to catch thirty eight Mahis at a floater. Not a bad day for a father …
Great day for the kids. Catching four ahi trolling is something that doesn’t happen very often in Kona. We found what we call the outside porpoise school and well, let the kids do all the work.