Kona Hawaii fishing report – July wrap-up

So how a lot of of you regular viewers of my month to month fishing report Google’d to see who won the Blue Marlin Globe Cup Tournament on July 4th? You don’t need to have to electronic mail me with the remedy but I have hundreds of fishermen who on a regular basis examine my regular monthly fishing report and I figured at least some of you would have been curious enough to see if Bermuda was capable to just take the “Blue Marlin Capital” title absent from Hawaii. Drum roll…… Hawaii wins yet again! Not only did we get but we smoked the relaxation of the globe! In this tournament the minimum qualifying fat is the “beast status” of at least 500 lbs. There wasn’t a single qualifying blue marlin caught anywhere else in the globe except Hawaii. In truth, there had been three qualifying “beast” marlin caught right here. The winner was Maui Jim with a 729 pounder but the Maui Jim wasn’t fishing his home turf off Maui, he was fishing right right here in Kona where all three qualifying beasts have been caught. In very last month’s report I stated that the big blues ended up right here but the more compact males hadn’t proven up but. Well, they’re right here now and the bite is ON! The Hawaiian International Billfish Tournament started very last Monday and by the conclude of the first day, much more than 50 percent of the teams had tagged and launched at least one particular marlin. The tournament runs for five days so we’re correct in the middle of it now so I’ll carry you the final results in subsequent month’s report. Of program you don’t have to wait to listen to it from me, they have a web website.

The smaller sized yellowfin and bigeye tunas are biting on the ledges and buoys and the a hundred+ yellowfin are biting “in the blind” as is typical for this time of year. The spearfish are biting as well, also typical for this time of year. The bummer is that the ono, that are intended to be here now, aren’t. We’ll see if they’re just operating late in following month’s report.

The bottom bite, as typical, is the finest way to get some quick action. Even though the marlin bite is on, you can nevertheless finish up empty handed if all you do is troll all day. When the trolling bite is on, I like to spend most of my day trolling but to make certain a catch for the day, nothing at all beats concentrating on the deep. Mainly I’ve been catching and releasing sharks with a number of GT’s (large trevally) thrown in. Each offer a battle that humbles even the studliest of anglers. The GT’s combat as challenging as a fish four times its dimensions and the largest ones sometimes don’t survive the battle. That just took place to us yesterday so we took it in and weighed it. Although we did make Kona’s “Big Fish List” with the largest weighed in this year at 95 lbs., each the angler and I would have fairly observed it swim absent. We made several attempts to get it to swim but it just wouldn’t go. I in fact have tagged and productively launched larger ones this yr. That makes me wonder…… If there were such a point as a GT Planet Cup Tournament with the minimal qualifying bodyweight of 100 lbs., would Hawaii be the “GT funds of the world” also? With my head wandering and wondering of that assumed, I’ll wish you all tight lines and screaming reels.

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