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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 lassoed with the leader, the large blue fought herself into exhaustion, and we were not able to revive her at the boat.  We swam her for fifteen minutes and let her go three separate times only to have her float back to the surface.  With no other choice we pulled her through the door and ran her in. Even though we release 99 percent of our marlin, we do have a few that die once in awhile.  In Hawaii all fish are eaten and a large marlin like this will not go to waste.  Our blue ended up weighing 635, not bad considering we were calling her 600 before we had to pull her aboard.

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 for 2 hours or so. We caught this Mahi mahi at a floater on a ballyhoo before we came home.

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 jet.  After a quick battle we released her to fight another day.

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 daughter team.

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.