Went out yesterday nice water got some mahi
Got 4 and some small ahi. Weather turns nasty today with big swell and winds. Time to surf and chase bones.
Got this 80lb yellowfin on a blue Rainy's 5/0 popper on my shimano trevella spin rod with 50lb power pro and 60lb fluro leader. It hit and the explosion looked like god dropped a bowling ball from heaven. Then it went down and drained half my spool. Got it to the boat in an hour and then it...
Hawaiian and New Zealand fishing legend Louie "The Fish" lost his battle with cancer on Saturday. He was a great guy and a good friend he will be missed.
Super lucky today to finally get a big ahi. It has been a terrible season this year with cold water and little bait, but we got very lucky and got this nice 150lb ahi on the troll today.
We are icing it down now and will cut it tomorrow. Should make some great sashimi and poke.
Hit a small...
Ben, aka "Pink Nighty" got his first bonefish the other day. He was very excited. He also hooked the 20lb Ulua swimming around in the pond, but that ended quickly. Ben did catch a lady fish for me to use today as a charlie to catch mahi mahi.
Aloha took Ben, aka Pink Nighty out to A-bay yesterday. He got goatfish small papio, big puffer and this Pualu, yellow finned surgeon fish, I call them impossibles.
Sadly he missed his shot at a 5lb bone when he lined it he saw how fast they are. Nice morning but the the wind went nuts, like...
Went to New Orleans and did some redfishing got this one and my cousin said look at the tail
What do you know #9 Drew Brees
My 2nd cousin John is a hella good fisherman
Ate too many of these
Ran into a couple of the right kine hurricanes
https://imgur.com/a/TUv3da7
Almost got a gator...
Makani Chritiansen asked me if I wanted to fish Kona with him. Went over yesterday and hit a spot only to find a school of pup blacktips at one of my bonefish spots. So I cast and got one of them. Pretty lucky with no wire.
It put up a good little fight.
Got a small Awa, milkfish on the...
Went to Molokai when they cancelled our Christmas Island trip
Went in search of big bones on the flats.
Fished with my friend Doug as a plan B on missing our trip
We used Joe Kalima as our guide , and we got to fish some clear huge flats.
Got this nice omilu and had it for dinner last night...
Went offshore Sunday out of Kona. hit the Tsunami buoy. Got 4 shibi to 30lbs and a nice otaru aku. Got some rats on the fly. Then weather turned nasty. Bummer you have to go 30 miles in Kona to find fish. We were set to go to Christmas Island today but they pulled the plug on us. This was...
My friend Greg Moss just got back from guiding on Palmyra Island
He took down a couple of TFO Axiom II X 12wt rods to try out and loved them on big GT's
Really nice Peach trigger
And the bonefishing is just stupid there
https://www.bustedfishing.com/biggest-tuna-ever-caught/
Check out this huge Ahi caught from land on a spin rod. This is a famous rock in australia where numerous big Gt and even marlin have been caught on fly gear and spin gear.