The Rieker loved ones had an exciting day on the h2o. Marcus, Zak, and Brandt were fortunate adequate to boat an ono and tag and launch a blue marlin. They acquired some fish for the dinner table and felt the satisfaction of releasing a nutritious blue marlin.

As the Riekers can validate, seeing a lively blue marlin is very a spectacle. Their blue marlin was lit up following to the boat after becoming tagged, that means that the fish was exhibiting all of its excellent hues.

Matt and Stephanie Kiraly elected to go out on a quick morning trip. They trolled the inside of and landed an ono at Olowalu, which is positioned roughly 5 miles south of Lahaina Harbor.

This mahi could not resist a trolled lure. Soon after the strike, Tony Schatte jumped into action and boated the fish. Tony selected to have his mahi filleted so he could have a barbeque with some fresh new fish.

Trey Sanchez productively tagged and launched a blue marlin. The fish was part of a double bite roughly two miles within of K buoy. Needless to say, going through numerous blue marlin bites concurrently is quite rare.

This ono was hooked although trolling off Lanai. Isabel Diaz demonstrated excellent technique as she fought the fish and brought her ono to the boat without any troubles.

Trolling off Lanai made yet another ono for Moses Kardashian. Moses was satisfied with his catch and had a great time on his trip. Besides taking pleasure in catching his ono, Moses was also capable to enjoy some fresh new ono fillets.

Taking images on the boat while the fish even now have their colour is a very good concept. That’s just what Moses did as he posed with his ono.

This 138 lb. ahi was caught on a 9 inch Maui Fishin Kolohe lure created by Captain Steve Carroll, who is a component of Team Start off Me Up. The Kolohe lure moves via the water well and creates a good volume of splash in the pattern. As a consequence, the lure draws a good deal of strikes.

There have been even bigger tunas close to, but Don Elder was satisfied to have his shibi cut up for some sashimi.

Ono generally strike in comparatively shallow water and Chris Ryan’s fish was no exception. Chris boated his ono after the fish struck a standard jet.

Kurtis Aikens, Jason Smith, and Nick Ellard missed a blue marlin that shook the hooks whilst jumping out of the h2o. Kurtis, Jason, and Nick made up for missing the marlin by landing a mahi, ono, and shibi.

Rhea and Doug Wong got a double ono bite just previous sweetheart rock close to Manele Bay, Lanai. Both of the onos ended up on the boat with Rhea landing the even bigger fish.

This ono just could not resist the Elkins Jr. Popsicle. The fish grabbed the lure and then Rich Fontenot took care of the rest.

Teresa and Carmine Kopecky had an awesome afternoon trip. The action began when Teresa caught a shortbill spearfish, which was tagged and launched. The shortbill spearfish was launched in a nutritious state and Teresa was even in a position to get a picture with her fish. That’s a win-win circumstance. Carmine then fought a blue marlin that was above 700 lbs. for fifty minutes. Carmine fought his blue marlin to leader, but at that point the added stress was also much and the fish acquired absent. Fortunately, the fish was nonetheless healthful right after the fight and swam absent devoid of difficulty.

This group of anglers identified out that the pelagic fish in Hawaii truly do bite in the afternoon. The anglers caught two mahis and a shibi, which are all outstanding table fare.

Derek Pischke also caught fish on a four hour trip. Derek caught his good cow mahi even though dragging lures.

Thank you for checking out this Commence Me Up fishing report. Any questions can be directed in the direction of Deli or Jonny in Begin Me Up’s Lahaina Harbor booth at 808-667-7879 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Hawaii Time. An choice is to electronic mail startmeupfish@gmail.com. Until finally the following report, which should be posted reasonably soon, tight lines.

Aloha,
Jonny