Kona Hawaii fishing report – April wrap-up

So here I sit at the pc again about to publish the Kona Hawaii Fishing Report. I’ve been carrying out it as soon as a month for over ten years now and I constantly try out to get it carried out just ahead of the month ends. Very last month I didn’t even realize the month had ended right up until after the reality and I found myself cramming the time into my schedule to get the report done. Just to allow you know, it will take the much better portion of a day to compose it and submit it in numerous fishing forums. I made a decision to make yellowfin tuna the concentrate of the report because I had not long ago talked to a number of captains about my tuna theory but in carrying out so, with blinders on, I didn’t do my billfish research. My bad. There was a new State record Striped Marlin caught in late March weighing in at 212 lbs. and I had even forgotten that Hawaii’s very first “grander” of the 12 months was caught about the middle of the month weighing in at 1062 lbs. That catch had just escaped my tunnel vision mind. This month the billfish bite remained rather good though marginally less than last month with striped marlin, blue marlin and spearfish currently being caught in Kona almost everyday.

On a trip before this week we landed a 519 blue marlin that died during the battle. A 500+ pounder is called a “beast” and I wasn’t confident if it would make the excess weight or not but I knew it would be shut. We weighed it and were satisfied that it created the grade. The man who filleted it up named me the up coming day and explained that it had a 30 lb. spearfish in its abdomen that had just been eaten. It was so clean that no digestion had even taken spot. I’ll get the “beast” standing anyway 🙂 The already complete marlin just couldn’t resist the odor of my anchovy stuffed Gatorade bottle lure. That’s right, a plastic bottle. I describe these lures on my world wide web website and they have been also featured in Marlin Magazine in ’09. To my surprise I identified out final week that I’m in this month’s problem of Sport Fishing Journal on page fifty five. There’s no point out of my name but that’s me with the spearfish.

Yellowfin tuna, huge skipjacks, mahi mahi and ono are nevertheless biting quite great. There ended up numerous much more instances of blind-strike yellowfin this month. I had a great blind-strike yellowfin on myself lately but we broke line on it during a tough run. I’ve had some individuals comment on the yellowfin theory I wrote about in very last month’s report. The theory tends to make too significantly sensation to just discount it. The improve in yellowfin tuna populations has to be because of to a thing. There’s so many out there now that fishermen are having a hard time finding a person to get them because there’s so several on the market place.

The bottom bite has been primarily sharks lately with a number of amberjack thrown in. I haven’t had time to update the fish photos web page on my own web web site recently in between fishing journeys and other responsibilities but now that this fish report is composed, with still many several hours far more needed to publish it on fishing message boards and, obtained to go into city right now, I may just be able to update my fish photos web page quickly. Darn, just realized I received to quit by the boat also and get my digital camera with all this weeks pictures in it.

See ‘ya on the drinking water ,
Capt. Jeff Rogers ,
http://FISHinKONA.com