Kona Hawaii fishing report – Sept. wrap-up

As normal September is the slowest time of yr for tourism and with the financial system still in undesirable shape it’s even slower than standard so there’s not numerous boats out fishing, such as me. I utilized the additional time off to do some work on my world wide web site and I manufactured a videos web page. Not only are there some video clips that I took myself but also some buyer movies and a Hawaii Goes Fishing demonstrate. FISHinKONA.com is the most significant fishing web site in the state of Hawaii especially with archived fishing reviews sort the previous 10+ many years. The next undertaking I’d like to do is an angling “how to” video clip for battling fish out of a fighting chair. The deckhands are typically the ones that give the instructions on how to battle a fish from a chair and many basically suck at it. Figuring out proper method not only makes catching less complicated and much more exciting but a lot of of the fish aren’t hooked much too great and 1 error like jerking hard on the rod, allowing the fish have slack line and other rookie mistakes can simply cost you the fish . With all my many years of experience, I know I can help numerous. It just continues to be to be noticed if I can do a great task of describing it in a small video clip.

The marlin bite remained very good during the month of September. That’s really nothing at all unusual. The very last of the summer season marlin tournaments was the 3 day September Challenge and there were plenty of marlin to go around for the anglers. The successful marlin was taken by the Sundowner weighing in just underneath the “grander” mark at 943 lbs. Many boats caught marlin in the course of the tournament with the regular marlin operating about 200 lbs.

By now it’s safe and sound to say that there was no ono operate this summer time. We can get them any month of the 12 months but the summer time months really should fairly considerably be a assured bite. Hawaii is just a little speck in a large ocean so they’re out there somewhere, just not here. The large skipjack tuna are here as is typical for this time of yr but they’re not biting really nicely and all of us are getting trouble hooking ‘em. It’s frustrating to see the tuna jumping all above the area and the consumers looking at you with a search like “what’s the make a difference with this captain?” The greatest concentrations are on “The Grounds” and several boats are just staying absent so they don’t have to see “the look” from the clients. The yellowfin tuna bite acquired really great this month on a FAD (fish aggregation device) appropriate in front of town. That certain FAD barely ever before has fish on it! Not only had been the commercial fishermen acquiring yellowfin tuna of all measurements there but also albacore tuna. Albacore are generally only caught at evening right here but they had been even finding them during the day at the FAD. There have been so numerous modest boats concentrated there that us charter men on the troll couldn’t get in near to the FAD where the fish had been biting.

I mentioned that the bottom fishing time opened September 1st for “the deep 7”. In previous seasons there was a big rush to get them although the price and demand had been higher but I’m not seeing that this 12 months. Most of the modest boats that I would commonly see fishing the ledges for snapper and grouper have been concentrating on the tunas instead. The bottom bite for even bigger video game like large trevally, amberjack, almaco jack and sharks has slowed down fairly a bit but bottom fishing is nonetheless on regular the most effective strategy for catching. Some trips this month however, I’ve had to put up with “the look” right after currently being not able to entice a bite from the bottom. Often it is fishing and not catching.

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