Mat Bowman on one of last duck hunting days before he heads back to Kona. We are looking forward to Mat coming back to help out this season again. We are fixing to get busy soon so I think his timing is right on track.
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Mat Bowman Due Back
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012Andre get the biggest of 2011
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
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My Apologies
Friday, December 30th, 2011I apologize for my posts being late this season. It has been a great year with a ton of good action. We have been in the field so much working that it has been really hard to get in the office. I have been hoping to have the trips and stay busy fishing and hunting and thanks to all of you we have. The problem with this is it is hard to post. My New Years resolution is to post on time and be better at keeping up. For those of you who follow our website regularly I apologize to you for the spotty posting. The news is all there it is just a little late. If you don’t hear from me for awhile you know that we are busy in the field or at sea. This is a good thing!! With good luck we will have a bunch more catches and hunts to share with you. Aloha Kev
Day 5 and 6 of Spearfish Impossible
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011We had a nice couple of days of fishing focused on our goal. A spearfish. By this time word had spread of our quest. Everyone in the fleet was helping us try to find one but they weren’t to be found. At 2:30 in the afternoon on our last day we hooked another nice Blue Marlin. It was over 600 pounds and jumped all over the ocean. We got 40 jumps out of her before she settled down. We got tight on the belly that collapsed after a 10 minute chase and it appeared the fish was tired and we would get an early shot. We just started gaining on the tight line and the hook pulled. After all of that jumping, unreal. After day 6 Sandra decided to keep traveling in search for a couple of the other billfish she needed.We wish her all the best in her quest for all nine billfish.Perhaps we can try again when they show up in better numbers this winter. Thanks to Brain Balancio, Boyd Decoito, and Chip Van Mols for helping me with Spearfish Impossible I know we gave it all we had and caught some nice blues on the way.
Day 4 Spearfish Impossible
Monday, November 7th, 2011
We hunted and hunted for spears and found that they really are rare billfish especially in Oct. It was a tough thing to do but we kept fishing hoping for the luck that Sandra has in fishing. She has caught a lifetime of billfish in a short time. Her accomplishment over the last 35 days fishing was unbelievable. Many of the billfish she caught in her quest were caught out of season. We kept hoping that her luck would continue for the spearfish. Her fishing luck proved to come through for her today on a really nice blue. I marked the fish shallow and we watched to see if it would come up. The fish did exploding on the short bait. We missed it and it went and ate the long corner. Chip Van Mols got the lines clear in time to release the fish in about 15 minutes. Chip had a good pull on the leader and did a great job. We got photos and released the fish at 600 pounds. My camera card got full and I didn’t get the greatest shots but got these before it tapped out. It really bummed me out that such a large card got so full so fast.
The Carnetts Catch Sashimi on a Half
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
Mat Finishes Up Summer
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
Mat Bowman finished out the 2011 summer with a bang. The great tuna day with had with Geza capped off a great summer. Mat heads to the East Coast for the fall to run Maine Mobile Shrink Wrap with his partner Ben. They have a business that specializes in shrink wrapping boats and water towers and construction sites that need to be covered for the winter. He will be back in January after they are done with work and the holidays. Mat has been the do it all guy this summer. He has been my right hand with everything we are doing now. Had a great season as my mate but also did great as a captain of the 37 Merritt and been a great apprentice guide on our hunts. I am grateful to have had him back this season and look forward to seeing him in January when we get rolling again. Good duck hunting and fly fishing to you this fall- See you back soon Thanks again- Mat
Geza Gets the Tuna Again
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
Geza got the tuna on great timing on 2 great days. The fish have been in the dolphins and we were able to get on them pretty good. We had good action on the tuna stick and some luck live baiting for them. The fall can be hard fishing due to the small food fish the tuna find to eat. There are silver dollar looking bait and tiny squids that they eat. They sometimes drive us crazy because they won’t bite. The 2 days we spend fishing the dolphins were great. They saw what we had and they bit. 2 fun days and good to get Geza out finally after a busy summer of charters.
TART Day 3
Saturday, October 1st, 2011
We had pervious TART winner ———-with us. He caught 4 blues with us in the 2009 tournament in one day. The 4 tags help him win that tournament. We looked forward to the same kind of luck. After we had a hard time catching bait we switched over right away and hooked up a nice fish a half an hour after we changed over. The fish came up on the stinger and climbed all over the lure. it looked big back there. I turned around to show the fish the lures again and it bit in the turn. We turned and chased on it right away and caught up to it in good time. The fish was big enough to take and thoughts of the fish from yesterday crossed my mind. The fish looked the same as the one the day before. It was at least a 100 pounds bigger than the qualifying weight. We took the fish and were on the way back up the leader board. 2 nice fish in 2 days sure did wonders for our catch up. The weight of the fish shocked us once again. It weighed 400 pounds. We could believe it. If the fish weighted 402 we would have made up for the one pound from yesterday but we would be denied the go ahed tag. That one pound would have done wonders. What are the odds of having 2 fish in 2 days the same size. What helped us was we tagged a small blue late in the day that got us closer. We were one tag off of second due to the one pound we were missing from our 2 nice fish.
Steve Cireco Day 2
Friday, September 30th, 2011
