Aloha from Lahaina Harbor, Maui, Hawaii. Most of the main video game fish species identified in Hawaiian waters have been caught in the past couple of months. An assortment of various bottom fish was caught as well. If anyone desires a lot more details on how the bite has been, come to feel free to get in touch with Deli in Start off Me Up’s Lahaina Harbor booth at 808-667-7879 in between 9 a.m. and five p.m. Hawaii Time. An choice is to electronic mail startmeupfish@gmail.com. The subsequent report includes some of Start Me Up’s anglers and their catch from the middle of November.

Mike Helland caught a few of great akus that place up a very good combat on light deal with. In the meantime, Sara Funk landed a bull mahi. Each Sara and Mike relished the action.

The Wong family won their fishing journey as component of local radio contest. They used a range of various tactics and bottom fishing happened to be the most productive. The Wongs pulled up a variety of good-consuming fish off the bottom, including uku, papio, nabeta, and ta’ape. Absolutely everyone concerned had a fantastic time on the drinking water.

The Holt group was hoping to catch some fish that they could try to eat for supper. They have been not dissatisfied by this good cow mahi, which was large sufficient to offer a excellent battle and loads of fillets.

The Spencer group caught their ono on a black and pink funnel jet running in the short corner placement. Equivalent to other big pelagic species, onos are quite intense they’re not at all intimidated by the boat and will regularly assault the most significant lures closest to the propellers.

Ed Boll and Tom Hemmerton picked up their great cow mahis whilst trolling alongside a latest line. They also missed a blue marlin in the identical region.

Retta Byron caught a huge cow mahi that tipped the scales at 31 lbs. Retta arrived across her mahi in thirty fathoms of drinking water off Puamana, which is practically a stone’s toss from Lahaina Harbor. The fish pounced on the small corner tomahawk in what was described as an “epic bite”.

Amanda and Peter Cozzolino ended up joined by Rob Gazzetta in catching three quality mahis. One of the mahis bit a lure whilst the other two had been caught on stay opelu.

Jeremiah Bouch and Lacey Scott obtained in on the trend of catching good quality mahis. Jeremiah caught his nice bull on live bait whilst Lacey caught her cow mahi on a lure.

These anglers fished difficult in pursuit of mahis but were only able to get 1. That’s the way fishing goes sometimes, but at minimum they caught enough fish to have a scrumptious dinner partly composed of refreshing mahi.

Jeff and Yvonne Kenny had to contend with some wind so they made a decision to fish the inside of ledges and pinnacles. Their plan labored out as they caught a couple of onos.

The choice of bottom fishing is turning into much more common, specially amongst younger anglers. The motion on the bottom is normally pretty regular and edible fish can still be caught. These youthful anglers introduced a selection of bottom fish and held a couple of nabeta, which are extremely excellent to eat.

Andrea Nelson, Amanda Hostetter, Joe Ohradzanski, and Steve Choi finished the day with a mahi apiece. Each angler seasoned the energy of their mahi although fishing at a FAD.

The Hinkel group took advantage of the comparatively late sunrise to catch some opelu at the commencing of their journey. Their bait catching efforts paid out off afterwards as they caught these two mahis on the stay opelus.

The Kranz group fished difficult and returned to Lahaina Harbor with a pair of mahis and a shibi. They had a number of other bites but those fish spit the hooks. Fortunately, the sting of a missed possibility is lessened when there are already fish on the boat.

The barracuda, or kaku, is not specific and for that reason isn’t caught on most trips, but Lyle and Betty MacLean somehow managed to get quite a few kaku bites. In general, barracudas are not regarded as to be excellent-eating. The captain’s family, even so, likes to eat kaku so this one was stored for the table.

David Kim was baiting the within pinnacle known as key spot when this mahi grabbed a bridled opelu. The strike was truly element of double bite but the second fish thwarted the fishermen by staying away from the hook.

Mark Weiss and Glenn DeMar fished the waters north of Lahaina. They commenced with live bait at a FAD and hooked a nice tuna and a mahi. Unfortunately, the tuna spit the hook following about fifteen minutes and the mahi shook itself free right after a couple of minutes on the line. Mark and Glenn settled for a couple of akus and a pair of shibis for sashimi. The anglers hooked their consolation fish, a 33 lb. ono, whilst trolling in 30 fathoms of h2o off Kapalua.

Alec and Brady Penning caught a kawakawa and a mahi. Both fish strike a little lure that was running far powering the boat.

The Halpin household went bottom fishing and caught an array of fish. A single of the fish, a moano, was employed for reside bait. Sean Halpin’s trumpet fish couldn’t resist the helpless moano and ended up on the back again deck ahead of becoming unveiled to combat another day.

A funnel jet on the long corner was crushed and then taken for a journey. The reel screamed as line peeled off the spool. Wayne Blake responded speedily to the ferocious bite and fought his good bull mahi all the way to the boat.

This younger angler invested a tiny bit of time in bottom fishing and caught this nabeta in addition to the other fish that he unveiled.

Kimball and Gerad Cottam were delighted with their cow mahi. A bull mahi to complete the pair would have been nice, but that fish was basically not in the cards.

Don Karbonic’s mahi came charging in on the long corner lure. The fish missed the synthetic lure and a organic bait was quickly pitched into the drinking water. The mahi reappeared to consider the lifeless opelu and Don built positive that the fish wound up on ice.

Many thanks for checking out this Start Me Up fishing report. Any questions can be directed toward Deli at 808-667-7879 or startmeupfish@gmail.com. Right up until the following report, tight lines.

Aloha,
Jonny