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July and August Forcast

       July and August are generally the best months of the year to be fishing in  Kona.  The surface ocean temperature is normally above 80 degrees F.  The warm currents bring in Blue Marlin, Yellow Fin Tuna, Mahimahi, and Ono (Wahoo).  We will also see an occasional Black Marlin caught.  There are also lots of smaller Skipjack and Yellow Fin Tuna around the fish aggregation bouys.  Averaging 2 to 6 pounds, these make for great sport on light tackle, especially for kids.

July 2008

Hosted the George and Levi Dieruf families from Bozeman, Montana for a full day of fishing.  After pulling a pair of live Skipjack tuna around in the morning with no success, we trolled lures out to the 1,000 fathom (6,000 feet) depths four miles from shore where a 150 lb. Pacific Blue Marlin grabbed the short corner lure.  George brought the fish to the boat in about five minutes in very fresh condition.  After being photographed and tagged with a National Marine Fisheries Services tag the fish decided it had not shown off enough.  It took off away from the boat in a series of eight to ten jumps, screaming line off the reel.  Ten minutes later, we were finally able to get it back boatside where the hook was removed.  George's son Levi cought a 25 lb. Pacific Shortnose Spearfish. A rare fish in all the world's oceans.  If you want to catch one of these, you need to come to Kona where the chances are the best.  This fish was also tagged and released.  The tags were mailed in to the National Marine Fisheries Service.  In the event either fish is recaptured in another part of the world and the information submitted to NNFS, they will notify both the angler and myself of the date, time and size of the fish.  

Hosted the Lance Sherwood families from New Mexico for 2 half day trips.  It was most important to the Sherwoods that everyone on board (6 passengers each day) caught a fish.  Catching a real big fish was not a priority.  We headed out to one of the offshore buoys which was loaded with small Skipjack and Yellowfin tuna.  These three to eight pound fish are great sport on the light tackle we were using.  We fished until each person caught one, then another, and another.  When you're used to catching trout, fish that we tend to think of as live bait can be a pretty big deal.

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June 2008

Today we started off fishing inshore on a morning half day trip and caught two nice Ono (Wahoo) right in front of the harbor for Stan Lovell from San Diego, CA. We then headed two miles offshore looking for Ahi (Yellow Fin Tuna) and managed to capture, tag and release two Shortnose Spearfish estimated at 25 lbs. each on our tuna lures. We try to tag and release all billfish whenever possible. The Ono are a great eating fish, and they were filleted for all to enjoy. 

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Captain Bob


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