The 2nd time was the charm for Mike Bertolucci, who fished two times with Begin Me Up although on Maui. Mike ended up tagging and releasing a blue marlin, which is a dream catch for any salt drinking water fisherman.

Emily Lazek picked up a few of great akus powering Lanai. The region was looking fishy with some scattered birds when the akus struck concurrently.

Mary Ostwinkle gave her Maui sportfishing expertise a thumbs up. Mary has fished with Begin Me Up just before and caught an ono this time out.

Brothers Fred and Blake Billings, traveling to from Texas, have been excited when they came across this mahi close to the ledge off the west facet of Maui. Fred fought the fish on a fifty lb. class rod and reel. The mahi was able to put some significant bend in the rod, generating the combat fulfilling.

Jeff Gillespie and Prosperous Goodman caught this cow mahi just inside the a hundred fathom ledge on a four hour trip. The fish grabbed a jet working in the prolonged gone position behind a bird and jumped substantial out of the water on the strike. Abundant had in fact fished with Begin Me Up the previous week and tagged a shortbill spearfish. Prosperous is a quite lucky angler.

Jason Smith went fishing with his buddies and landed a great bull mahi. Jason stated that he had been waiting his whole lifestyle for a fish like his mahi.

Mark and Michelle Austin, Jim Krebs, Don Goldschmidt, Mike Valencia, and Larry Wright located their fish at K buoy. The anglers caught their mahis and onos on lures as the fish bit on practically each pass.

Daren Compton and Phil Eller caught a wonderful bull mahi at K buoy. They produced their first pass at the buoy with lures and did not get a strike. Even so, there were some fish caught at K buoy the past day so Daren and Phil labored the buoy a little more challenging. All of the lures have been brought in and bait was place in the water. Daren and Phil’s mahi could not resist the bait, allowing Daren and Phil to boat a high quality fish.

Gilbert and Amber Gonzales caught these shibis at NASA buoy. The more substantial shibi was caught on reside bait and the smaller sized shibi was hooked using a tiny lure. Numerous other tunas were hooked in the place, but porpoise had been also in the region and continuously attacked fish on the line.

Laura Ensign jumped into action when a pair of mahis bit simultaneously. Laura boated her mahi, which was filleted to provide a great meal or two.

This angler caught his 39 lb. ono whilst trolling off the slides on the backside of Lanai. Comparable to a lot of other onos, this ono could not support but demolish a jet.

A profitable day of fishing can result from basically becoming in the correct area at the correct time. That’s just what transpired for Damon, Mike, Lauren, and Jackie Mitchek as nicely as Mike and Jack Sullivan. The anglers arrived across a floater in a quick-shifting existing and followed the floater lengthy enough to catch this mixed bag of fish dominated by mahis.

The bite picked up in the afternoon for Jeremy and Linda Dodd. Jeremy and Linda caught and launched a kaku, or barracuda, and then landed a single mahi on a double strike. The trip completed with a bang as a wonderful 38 lb. ono bit correct in front of Lahaina Harbor.

The Ahi P lure working in the short rigger place struck however once again. Don Sheldon’s mahi struck the lure and then Don took care of business, acquiring the fish to the boat.

As David Leavitt requested, his blue marlin was tagged and launched. David went 1 for two on blue marlin whilst trolling the location identified as the factory.

Jason Brodliev hooked this wonderful mahi even though trolling. Jason landed his mahi on a 50 lb. class rod and reel, which authorized the fish to bend the rod and get some line, providing and pleasant fight.

This angler landed a skipjack tuna, or aku. Even though the aku was not big, the fish was an encouraging sign of existence that indicated the presence of larger predators this sort of as marlin.

This group of anglers arrived across some fish in the waters behind Lanai. The anglers landed a mahi and some shibis for the dinner table.

Onos are fun to catch because their immense pace permits them to make blistering preliminary runs. The swimming pace of onos didn’t intimidate Jessie Brockway a single bit as she boated her ono.

Dan Timmons barely had time to sit down and relax before he was hooked up. Dan caught his ono 3 minutes external of Lahaina Harbor on a 2 hour afternoon trip.

The Johnson group skilled the thrill of catching a marlin firsthand. The group decided not to preserve their roughly 200 lb. blue marlin, which was tagged and launched.

Many thanks for checking out this Commence Me Up fishing report. Group Start Me Up will continue to be out on the drinking water seeking for the fish and catching fish to be incorporated in the following report. Until then, tight lines.

Aloha,
Jonny