Kona Hawaii fishing report – August wrap-up

This month was one of the finest months for blue marlin that Kona has observed in quite a whilst. With that, the Hawaiian Global Billfish Tournament, the Lazy Marlin Hunt and the Big Island Invitational Marlin Tournament have been all Huge successes. The marlin are nonetheless here in amounts but given that the tourism has slowed (as normally transpires towards the conclude of summer season) there aren’t several boats heading out. Even with a good marlin bite heading on even though, the only ensure that you’ll catch one particular is if you fish many days. Even the greatest marlin captains can occur up with a zero throughout a sizzling bite. I don’t consider myself one of the top marlin captains here but just yesterday we had 4 marlin bites and that’s some pretty excellent marlin action but by the end of the day, we only finished up with 1 mahi mahi in the box. I didn’t do any bottom fishing on this trip at the ask for of the customer. Much more on that afterwards.

The ono bite has picked up so there’s nevertheless hope for some variety of conclude of summertime run. The ono bite has been rather excellent way down South but the “ono Lane” appropriate in front of the harbor and the airport has only been making a few. There are nonetheless some spearfish biting but we’re heading toward the slowest time for them over the subsequent two months. Mahi mahi seem to be displaying up here and there so maybe we’ll get an early operate on them. Buyers usually inquire me if I like eating ono or mahi mahi the greatest. The two the two taste outstanding but here’s my get if I’ve been eating a whole lot of mahi mahi, an ono confident does flavor very good. If I’ve been eating a whole lot of ono, a mahi mahi certain does hit the spot.

Now it’s time for the “more on that later”. Hawaii’s bottom fishing year opens up in just a few of days on Sept. 1st. the year closed very last March and it’s illegal to bottom fish out of period. Hey, wait! I bottom fish year-spherical. How does that perform? Am I breaking the regulation? No. Thankfully there’s a loophole for us that are targeting the big recreation bottom fish as an alternative of the fish known right here as “the deep seven”. It has to do with the specific sort of gear I’m using so us catching one particular of “the deep seven” only happens on rare event. While I think any of the deep 7 bottom fish beat out an ono or mahi mahi for style, they just aren’t extremely exhilarating to catch. Specially for individuals that occur right here to sport fish and aren’t interested in ingesting their catch as was the scenario with yesterday’s charter. He only wished marlin. I’m Ok with that however. That indicates mahi mahi for dinner tonight. I’m so spoiled when it comes to good ingesting clean fish 🙂

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