Kona Hawaii fishing report – Jan. wrap-up

Marlin about 1000 lbs., identified as “granders” are often caught all about the world. Some are taken and some are launched but here in Hawaii, we only rely the types that are truly weighted in. Some of the captains right here have built the declare that they caught and unveiled a grander and because of their expertise, you can take their phrase for it that they did in truth launch a grander but others who have produced a declare to have released a grander are acquired with skepticism. Appropriate before the near of 2011 the term went out that there was a achievable grander coming to the scales for weigh in. I didn’t adhere all around for the weigh in but identified out the up coming day that it only weighed in at 608 lbs. The crew on the boat is skilled so it didn’t make any sense why they believed it would make the grander mark but they only had egg on their faces for a small while due to the fact just 8 times later on, they truly caught 1 and weighed in the very first grander of 2012 at 1040 lbs. Hawaii’s very first official “grander” was caught and weighted in 1954 and the depend has continued at an average of a bit about 2 for each yr considering that. Hawaii Fishing Information keeps the grander tally on their world wide web site so now ended up up to 128 of them in Hawaii.

The striped marlin bite isn’t very excellent at all as we method the middle of their season (bummer) but the spearfish showed up correct on time and have been a relatively frequent catch. I’ve said it right here before and I’m declaring it yet again, people spearfish are one of the best consuming fish there is! We had another little ono spurt this 30 days and a number of mahi mahi are nevertheless coming in. The yellowfin tuna are nonetheless hanging on the ledges and FAD’s but the numbers and dimensions have dropped from very last month.

The bottom bite has been a great deal far better these days with a great assortment of fish but there’s barely any bait fish at the bottom fishing grounds so I’ve been really going to the closest FAD to the harbor for bait. It’s in the reverse course from the bottom fishing grounds but the bait fish have been straightforward to catch along with the occasional eating measurement yellowfin as a bonus. I’ve also selected a couple of spearfish off the buoy whilst catching the bait fish and yesterday we got a spearfish on one particular of the bait rods. It was some good mild deal with motion and the spearfish built a number of jumps. That’s something that they almost never do on our standard measurement deal with and the a lot more a fish jumps, the a lot more probably it will occur off but fortunately I had a good angler that was ready to deal with it so it’s spearfish for supper tonight :p

Previous month I talked about the NLOM web website that predicts the speed and path of the currents and I stated that they have been “fairly accurate” and that “with handful of exceptions they ended up proper on the money”. I’d now like to retract that statement and go back again to “there’s no way to predict it”. Their predictions are updated the moment a week and they have their mature predictions on the website also. Not only have been their authentic predictions way off for most of January but even their most current latest data(not a typo) is wrong. I’ll still be checking their web website often for reference but surely not relying on it to be exact.

See ‘ya on the h2o ,
Capt. Jeff Rogers ,
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