Kona Hawaii fishing report – March wrap-up

The trolling bite is nevertheless performing true excellent in Kona with a mix of striped marlin, spearfish and mahi mahi. There have even been a few blue marlin all around with a single coming in this month just 22 lbs. short of the “grander” mark. While the blue marlin are normally solitary critters, striped marlin swim in universities so numerous of us are encountering double, triple and even quadruple hook-ups.

There are some ono currently being caught also even even though it’s not genuinely period for them and one of the stranger catches is “blind strike” yellowfin tuna. Yellowfin tuna will be the principal concentrate of my report this month. You can catch yellowfin tuna in Hawaii year-spherical with the peak time of the one hundred+ pounders in the summer time. In the summer you can expect blind strikes from yellowfin tuna but in the winter, a blind strike (till not long ago) has been virtually unheard of. In the winter you would normally need to be fishing a porpoise school to score a massive yellowfin but that’s shifting. Not only have the past numerous summers been truly great for massive yellowfin right here but so have the winters. So, what might be the explanation for these an enhance in the fish provide? I have a principle.

Large commercial fishing vessels are restricted by the amount of fish they can maintain. Then it’s back again to port to gear up for yet another trip. In the past ten years a newer approach has formulated to get even much more tuna from the ocean. The now well-known strategy is to surround a whole tuna college with a large internet and drag the entire college closer to whatever continent you arrive from and then above a interval of time, pull the fish out. This approach has a high mortality fee and also delivers skinny fish simply because of the lack of food. It sounds absolutely terrible and you would think that a continuance of this kind of fishing practice would wipe out the tuna industry in a brief time period of time but in reality, the reverse is taking place. Why? Here’s my principle: The tuna are in very near proximity. They’re stressed out simply because of the confinement and as a end result, they’re breeding at an accelerated rate. Sperm and eggs are flying everywhere. With the closer proximity, more eggs are being fertilized than would commonly happen in the wild. The now fertilized eggs drift right on through the internet and much more yellowfin tuna are being created as a immediate outcome of the confinement. Of program I don’t have any evidence of my theory but it sounds like it makes feeling. I’ve run this idea by many fishermen right here and it usually gets the yes nod.

The bottom bite is, as usual the finest assure of a profitable fishing journey. It’s good acquiring a excellent trolling bite occurring at the identical time so I haven’t had to rely on the bottom bite as significantly. In my January report I pointed out that I had caught far more giant trevally (GT) in the earlier 6 months than I had in the preceding ten decades blended and that trend is continuing. Is someone netting and confining these fish also? No. The tag and release of GT’s has gained in popularity so that has some to do with it but at the same time, the kampachi fish farm just offshore of the Kona airport has grow to be a quite popular spot for GT’s to hang out. They are a frequent internet site around the nets because the nets are also providing construction for a fish called opelu, a preferred food of the GT and they’ve equally been camping out close to the fish pens for some many years now. Opelu populations rely on underwater construction to congregate so the more construction the greater. Yet again, shut proximity of a huge population of fish delivers even a lot more fish so I’ll stretch my theory even further and say that it’s also helping the GT populations. I have no proof of it but the improve of yellowfin tuna and GT populations in Kona has to be because of to some thing.

See ‘ya on the water ,
Capt. Jeff Rogers ,
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