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Jim Rizzuto's Kona Hawaii Fishing Update
Copyright 5-05-08 (all rights reserved)



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Posted 05/05/08

BAIT VERSUS LURES, THE BATTLE CONTINUES. Dee Bradford, skipper of High Noon, vividly remembers a long ago episode when fishing was distinctly unfair.
    He was fishing VV-Buoy with a pair of fat and lively baits. After Dee had spent two hours circling the FAD with the very best billfish food on the menu, he watched the charter boat Carnivore approach towing trolling lures.
    When the lures crossed a spot Dee had just fished with his baits, a 400-lb marlin grabbed one of Carnivore’s plastic artificials.
    Now that’s just plain unfair. But it gets worse.
    After Carnivore boated its 400-pounder, the skipper put the lures out, circled the buoy again and hooked a second 400-pounder. And boated that one, too.
    “It just wasn’t my turn,” Dee said.
    On Saturday, Dee found himself in exactly the opposite situation.
    After trolling inshore for ono with no luck, Dee spotted boats live-baiting at VV-buoy and decided to go grab a bait and join them.
    He trolled to the FAD with his spread of big-game lures popping along behind. It was about 9:00 am and conditions were Kona-perfect. When he was just about 200 yards from VV-buoy, a 643-lb marlin grabbed the Softhead ™ lure running in his long corner position – much to the consternation of the fishing fleet sitting on lovely live baits just right for billfish.
    “This time, it was my turn,” Dee said.
    Actually, it was Denise Bradley’s turn. The young lady from San Diego, Calif, had fished for marlin three times before with nary a bite.
    “She told me she thought she was bad luck,” Dee said.
    Denise fought the tough fish for two hours, urged on by three male members of her fishing party.
    The marlin jumped once on its initial 400-yard run and then not again after that, Dee said. When a marlin doesn’t waste its energy in jumps or long runs, it can battle on relentlessly.
    Dee fishes without a crew but trains his fishing parties to help. Denise’s family and friends helped clear lines so Dee could begin maneuvering after the fish soon after the strike.
    The marlin never took off a lot of line after the first quarter-mile sprint but concentrated its efforts on short, powerful bursts.
    “It made about six runs of about 100 yards each,” Dee said. “It was still strong even at the back of the boat.”
    Even without a crew, Dee was ready for the end game.
    High Noon has controls on the fighting deck as well as the bridge. Dee had taught his anglers how to shift the engine in and out of gear.
    “When I tried to leader the marlin, it was still green and wouldn’t come,” Dee said. “I had one of the guys shift us into neutral. That slowed the boat enough for me to pull the fish up. When I had the fish up alongside the boat, I had him put it back in gear to help keep it right there against the boat.”
    Dee had his flying gaff ready and close-at-hand. He cleated the leader to hold the fish for the second or two he needed to set the flying gaff.
    Denise’s 643-pounder was the biggest marlin weighed here last week and High Noon’s largest of the year. Dee’s lucky charter boat parties had two other shots at fish that might have been as big or bigger.
    “Kenton Geer had the boat out one day in ono lane off Keauhou and had a marlin something over 500 lbs hit in 40 fathoms,” Dee said. “It went after a lure a couple of times but didn’t stick.
    “The next day, I had one I estimated at 700 hit the long corner in 200 fathoms of Keauhou. It came off.”
    That’s lure fishing for you. One solid hook up in three strikes is actually a better-than-average ratio.

UNSEEN OBSERVER APPEARS. On Saturday afternoon, much of Kona’s fishing fraternity gathered on the grounds of the Kona Inn to celebrate the life and accomplishments of legendary skipper George Parker. The commemorative ceremonies took place near the oceanfront spot where George and his fellow fishing pioneers weighed their catches back in the 1940s and 1950s when Kona was beginning to build its big-game reputation.
    Unseen offshore, a 700-lb blue marlin cruised the same waters its ancestors did back when they were challenging the anglers fishing from George’s classic wooden-hulled Mona H.
    The big fish hunted for food and was ready for action. At about 2:00 pm, as the onshore testimonies were beginning, the marlin spotted something interesting above.
    A boat rumbled overhead, sending out attractive motor sounds. The fish rose to check out the throbbing noises and then spotted a school of “baitfish” racing along behind.
    One of these was a Marlin Magic blue jet lure dressed in flying-fish colors. The offering was particularly suitable. George Parker was one of the originators of big game fishing with lures and this lure was made by a company headed up by George’s son, Marlin Parker.
    Captain Gene Vander Hoek was at the helm of Sea Genie II and Bronson Cablay was on deck when the big marlin struck. Veteran angler Robert Holding IV battled the hooked fish on standup gear and brought it to the boat in about a half hour – a great display of angling prowess of which George would have approved.
    Gene and Bronson released the fish to live for more celebrations in the future.
    The catch celebrated George’s life in a particularly appropriate way. Gene, who knew the venerable skipper well, says that George would not have passed up the chance to take out another charter and catch another big fish even to attend his own funeral.
    During the time set aside to honor his memory, someone else did it for him and marked the occasion with a worthy fishing accomplishment.

THRESHERS IN THE SPOTLIGHT. Gordon Stone came all the way from Scotland just to catch threshers and he caught six in four nights, says skipper Gene Vander Hoek. Gordon fished nights on Sea Genie II with Gene, crew Bronson Cablay and assorted other insomniacs and saw a type of big-game fishing few others have ever experienced.
     “Gordon’s six threshers averaged about 500 lbs,” Gene said. “That’s a lot of pull.”
      As if that weren’t enough, the Sea Genie II gang ended the week with another big thresher challenge on Friday night, as well.
     Robert Holding IV joined them in an attempt to top his previous best long-tail capture, a 900-lb thresher he caught last year on his boat Contender.
     (For that story, check out Tim Robertson’s account of last year’s great thresher fishing in the May issue of Hawaii Fishing News.)
     “We went out for just a few hours on Friday night and Robert ended up catching a 500 or 600 pounder,” Gene said.
     Threshers use their extremely long tails to stun baitfish before eating them. When they hit a hooked bait with their whip-like weapon, they sometimes snag themselves in the tail.
     “We hooked this one in the tail and it took him 900 yards straight down,” Gene said. “Even so, he brought that one back to the boat. It was thresher number nine for the week. They can wear you out because they pull pretty darn hard.”
     Gene says he has a spot where he can park the boat at sunset, put out two baits and expect a strike in as little as ten minutes.
     “Over by VV-buoy there is a point that comes out on the 500,” Gene said. “I dubbed it the pyramid. It is easy to go there and set out the baits. You hook one, fight it for 50 minutes, run back to the spot, put the baits back out again and ten minutes later you are hooked up again.”
      Old timers who remember DD-Buoy, the “Fishing Island,” may remember days when the large aluminum fishing platform swarmed with threshers. I have photos of anglers pulling threshers aboard the fishing station during bright sunlight hours, as well as on overnighters. Gene’s pyramid spot is not very far from there.
     Fishing round the clock can wear you out. Sea Genie II ended the week on Friday with the 700-lb blue marlin already mentioned.
     “We had a pretty eventful 48 hours,” Gene said. “I wasn’t really exhausted but if you look behind the boat and see a 700 pounder in the wake, it’ll wake you up.”

HO`OKELE SCORES 20-LB KAWAKAWA. The charter boat Ho`okele took over the kawakawa lead last Tuesday with a 20-pounder. Skipper Guy Terwilliger and crew Brad Damasco baited the big tuna-cousin with a live opelu.
     “We were trying to catch ono with live opelu,” Guy said. “We couldn’t get the ono to bite but did get the big fat kawakawa. We were using light standup gear so Nancy got a nice fight out of it.”
     Rigging live opelu for ono is tricky. A standard head-bridle rig rarely works because the sharp-toothed killers whack the bait off at mid-body. Guy foils the hackers with a stinger hook rigged so it runs in the back third of the bait.
     Live opelu work great in the summer, Guy says, but not so well at this time of the year. “They are more into the lures, these days,” he said. “We did it again another day last week. After we caught an ono on a lure, we switched over to live opelu. We couldn’t get anything to bite on them, so we switched back to lures and caught six more for Pat and Scott Strader.”
     Mark your fishing maps. The Straders got their big ono catch on the ono run between Kaiwi Point and Keauhou.

THE RIGHT KIND OF “PORPOISE.” Jimmy Hamura headed to OTEC early in the week aboard his 21-foot inboard, prepared for the worst. The bait schools he came across along the way were being hounded by stenos, one of the bait-stealing kinds of dolphins. And the OTEC area is not always a sea-kindly place for small boaters.
    When he and Honolulu friend Rodger Debebar reached the FAD, they were pleasantly surprised. The conditions were flat and the dolphins congenial.
     “I told Rodger this is the good kind of porpoise – not the stenos.” Jimmy said. “We put out the lures, went about 50 yards and hit the fish.”
     The fish in this case was a 111-lb `ahi.
     “I put Rodger in the fighting chair and helped a bit by backing down when I could,” Jimmy said. “It was his first big fish but he still got it up in about 30 minutes.”
     Jimmy had planned to catch a few small kau kau fish and had brought along just enough ice to do that job. The 111-lb `ahi effectively ended the fishing because it used up all of the ice. So we’ll never know how many tuna there really were out at OTEC that day.
     One was more than enough for Jimmy and Rodger.

SWEEPING UP THE FLAG FISH. It’s not often you get the chance to score a sweep with all four types of Kona flagfish – billfish, tuna, mahimahi and ono -- says skipper Dennis Cintas. But he had that chance aboard Krista on Saturday.
     “We started out at 6:30 am on the second day of a two-day trip with George and Annie Wartsbaugh of Galveston, Texas, and ventured out to the 1,000-fathom line directly in front of Old Airport,” Dennis said.
     That’s where they found a big blue marlin – Dennis says it weighed at least 700-lbs -- waiting to eat.
     “Unfortunately she wasn't awake enough to clearly see and inhale the short rigger but she gave it an honest attempt before she swam away to eat other things no so fast,” Dennis said.
     “About 8:00 am a small spearfish came into the pattern and was equally not awake enough to give a real attempt at eating the stinger malolo lure,” Dennis said.
     Deckhand Tramaine Baquiring, quickly put out a ballyhoo on a 30-lb outfit and the shortbill switched from the lure to the bait.
     “A great battle on 30 gave George his first ever Pacific shortnose spearfish weighing in at 35 lbs. A little later we had a blind strike in the same area by three hungry 60 to 65-lb `ahi. After a bit of a fire drill, we managed to get them and keep our string of bites going. A little later we found a cargo net and landed five mahimahi and one ono. Quite a day in Kona for any fisherman and a testimony to the fact that you don't have to venture too far off Kaiwi Pt. to find your "motherload’!”

8TH ANNUAL OHANA BOAT TRAILERS FOUR-FLAG FISHING TOURNAMENT. Ohana Boat Trailers of Waimea will sponsor a Four –Flag Jackpot Tournament to be held on June 14. Boats will launch from Keauhou or Honokohau. Entry forms are available at J Hara Store-Waimea, Kona Fishing Tackle, The Fish House at Kawaihae, Melton International Tackle, Pacific Rim Fishing Supply, Dino’s Fishing Tackle and S. Tokunaga Store. For more information call Tootsie Timm at 960-3901.
 

 


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BAITING WITH LURES, LURING WITH BAIT. Among elite fishermen, the terms “bait” and “lure” have been known to start arguments. “Bait,” they say, properly refers only to some form of natural food and “lure” only to something artificial – a piece of plastic, wood, or metal.
    But that’s not an argument for local fishermen who often refer to their lures as baits and know that a bait makes a great lure.
    And there is usually no argument about which form of bait, natural or artificial, works best with big fish. The biggest marlin are almost always caught on artificials and the biggest `ahi on natural baits.
    If skipper Kevin Nakamaru is reading this, he’s probably shaking his head. On Northern Lights, Kevin reversed the expected outcomes by catching the week’s biggest marlin on a natural bait and the biggest `ahi on an artificial lure.
    Kevin and crew Trace Epstein had 13-year-old Hayden Fein aboard for the big blue. They were live-baiting on the Grounds outside Keahole Light when a 700-lb blue came up chasing their live aku on the surface. Fast and frantic strikes like this one result in misses as often as hits. Holding the line in his fingers, Trace couldn’t feel the marlin.
    “So we fed it to her again and she was there,” Kevin said.   
This time they struck the marlin and she started swimming out to sea. When the marlin felt the pull of the line, she came up jumping and gave them their first look.
    The plan was to release the marlin, so that meant getting to it as quickly as possible. They advanced the drag to about 40 lbs, which was the most their young angler could handle and maneuvered Northern Lights to stay close. Hayden reeled the line as Trace occasionally assisted by steadying the rod.
    “He did a great job and we got the fish to the boat in about 20 minutes,” Kevin said.
    The fresher the fish, the more chance of a vital release – but the more chance that it will still be trouble at boat side.
    “It jumped right next to the boat,” Kevin said. “I thought it was going to go right up the side of the boat.”
    Now it was time to say goodbye to the fish and the hook.
    Though Kevin was using a J-hook, not a circle hook, the hook was safely lodged in the corner of the mouth where it would be easily shed in time. So they cut the leader (650-lb-test Momoi) and sent the fish back to feed on more natural baits.
    Kevin reported it as 700 lbs and said it was definitely in the 675 to 725 range.
    Earlier in the week, Kevin and Trace had hooked and released a 550-lb blue for angler Michael Waugh after a 15-minute fight. This one followed the lures-take-the-biggest-fish formula. Kevin caught it on a jet – a metal head with a plastic tail.
    Kevin took the day off on Saturday – and took his family fishing with friends Billy and Heather Maxwell and their daughter Kate, 7.
    Billy is a professional captain and skippers a boat out of Oregon Inlet, North Carolina. Heather is a former director of the Pirates Cove Tournament. The Maxwells were here between Billy’s winter boat-building job and his spring/summer post at the helm of Tuna Fever.
    With those credentials, the goal of the day was to catch tuna.
    “My daughter Gabby, 5, caught some aku and small `ahi and Kate caught a 20-lb ono,” Kevin said. “After that, we went one for four on tuna. We lost three and caught a 140-lb `ahi for Heather.”
    Heather’s 140 is the biggest of the week – and the only tuna over 100 lbs reported to us that week.

ANXIOUS PAYS TAXMAN. Income tax deadlines have come and gone, but the “tax man” is still hanging around to take his bite. “Tax men” is the somewhat scornful term anglers use for sharks because they show up after you’ve done all the work and then take a bite of what you have earned with your effort.
    Captain Jeff Metzler and crew Brian Schumaker had angler John Babbe aboard the charter boat Anxious at mid-week when the gray suits came calling.
    Just before quitting time, a big blue marlin hit a jet lure and put John in the chair for a tough 30-minute fight. A shark showed up during the battle, but Jeff and Brian were ready to bribe it with a bottle.
    You know the trick. Attach a short line and hook to a plastic bottle as a floater. Bait the hook and toss it to the shark. The toothy fish takes the bait and hooks itself. Bothered by the trailing bottle bopping its sides, it swims away until it eventually sheds the rig.
    “We watched the shark swim off into the sunset,” Jeff said.
    Crisis averted – but only briefly.
    When John got the fish close to the boat, two more sharks showed up.
    “The marlin had just about had it,” Jeff said. “If we released it, it would have been eaten on the spot.”
    Instead of leaving it to encourage the sharks, they brought it back to be human food. Back at the dock, John’s still-intact-billfish weighed 506 lbs.

JUN KEN PO JOES SCORE 500-LB BLUE. Back home in Seattle, state trooper Dave Edwards and his partner – a bomb-sniffing dog – protect the city’s ferry system from potential terrorists. Dave fished on Jun Ken Po without his canine buddy but still managed to sniff out a 500-lb blue marlin – a real bomb of a fish.
    At one point the marlin erupted out of the water and greyhounded across the surface in a series of explosive jumps. It took no special training to see the danger.
    “It came straight at the boat,” said skipper Joe Schumaker.
    With a bit of skillful boat handling, Captain Joe avoided the charge while deckhand Joe Walker coached trooper Dave to help him keep the line tight.
    And a tight line proved to be especially important.
    When Dave got the fish close after a 25-minute fight, Joe saw the precarious position of the hook. Only the point had stuck in the fish.
    “We had only about an eighth-inch of the hook holding the fish – it wasn’t even buried up to the barb,” Joe Schumaker said. “I couldn’t believe the fish made it to the boat, especially after all of the jumps.”
    Joe Walker hollered to his guests, “Take your pictures now because the hook is going to pull loose any second.”
    Despite being only a hair-trigger hook-up, the point never pulled free. Joe came down from the bridge and popped it out to let the fish go.
    The marlin won’t even have a scar, Schumaker said.
    The Jun Ken Po Joes gave Dave the lucky lure (a purple-and-pink Softhead TM) to take back home as a memento.
    And the talisman was especially well deserved.
    Dave, now 36, has fished here for 20 years without a lot of luck.
    His parents Roy and Lani Edwards brought him here back then, and he began by fishing on Cheers with Lowell Tepper. He caught his last blue marlin back in 1990 on Puka Kai with Dick Rogers.
    Dave says he had heard of  Jun Ken Po often over the years and always wanted to fish on it. “There are a lot of good spirits on that boat,” Dave said. Dave flew his parents out to fish with him.
    After waiting 18 years for this marlin, he only had to wait about 20 minutes for the strike.
    “We barely got done sipping our morning coffees when here she comes,” Joe Schumaker said. “We hooked the marlin in 1200 fathoms right out in front of the harbor first thing in the morning.”

LEPIKA LETS 550 GO. Brian Erikson of Warroad Minnesota and local friend Bryan Wilmer fished on Lepika with skipper Russ Nitta and were rewarded with a blue marlin estimated at 550 lbs. At 9:30 am the big fish grabbed a custom-made tube lure running in the long-corner position as Lepika trolled in 1,000 fathoms off Makua.
    (That’s the landmark formerly known either as “Pine Trees” or “Not Pine Trees” for those of you who know the trees weren’t really pines.) Russ makes his own lures and skirted this one with blue vinyl.
    Erickson battled the fish to the boat in about 40 minutes, according to Wilmer. Russ fishes with no crew and released the fish himself after carefully retrieving his custom lure.
    After noting the spot for a return visit, Russ came back the next day and hooked a 450-lb blue. This one threw the hook on a jump.

TWINS CATCH TWINS. Siblings are always in competition, perhaps even more so when they are twins. That’s as true of fish as it is of fishermen. Scott Fuller and Tim Medeiros saw that first hand when they hosted the Reis family aboard Sea Baby III.
    Laytin and Jayda Reis are twins, now 13. Scott didn’t immediately notice the resemblance in the bustle of getting the cruise ship visitors and their gear aboard and out to sea. One wore white and the other black, unlike twins who tend to wear similar clothing.
    Outside Honokohau, Tim set out the lines as the hosts got to know their guests, “A really nice family from the east coast,” Scott said.
    “One line went off, and then another,” Scott said. “One boy got in the chair and the second fought his fish from the gunnel rod holder.”
    After the brothers got their fish to the boat, Scott realized that the two spearfish were as identical in size as they could be. Then it dawned on him that the brothers were also identical.
    Twins catching twin fish.
“This was a first for me in 32 years of fishing,” Scott said.
    The boys are very competitive, their mother told Scott. They love to fish and would do so day and night. So the size of the fish had now become a contest. Which twin had the bigger one?
    Normally Scott releases spearfish but the only way to settle the size issue was to bring them back. Tim said he could certainly make good use of the catch for family and friends so the next step was the scales. The boys posed for their picture, beaming from ear to ear, but don’t be fooled. The scales settled nothing. Laytin’s weighed 30 lbs and Jayda’s weighed 30.5. The competition continues!
     
HEINTZ I AND II SCORE ON LINDA SUE III. Skipper Jeff Heintz took his son Jeff. Jr. out fishing on Jeff’s charter boat Linda Sue III. The goal was to show Jeff, Jr., a good time and remind him of what he was missing by living in Wisconsin.
    “We found a log out in 2,500 fathoms and on the first pass all six lines came down,” Jeff said.
    Multiple strikes at a floater almost always mean mahimahi, but not this time. They all turned out to be shibis – small bigeye tuna.
The family fishing party stayed on it for three hours of great light-tackle action, Jeff said. In between the continuous tuna bites, the Jeffs caught two ono and a mahimahi.
Jeff says he normally returns all of the small tuna he catches but decided to keep many of these. He has a lot of local Big Island clients and rewards them when he can with sashimi. Nothing went to waste.
    Jeff plans to put a picture of the catch and his family up on his website <www.lindasue2.com> soon. Check it out for a stunning picture of fish-catching.
    The best may be yet to come.
“This could be the start of a great season at the FADs if these bigeyes come in close to Kona,” Jeff said.
Bigeyes around the FADs mean lots of forage for big fish.

APRIL CHUCKER FLURRY. It’s still April so its no surprise the shortbill spearfish are still around. The IGFA record book shows no fewer than nine chucker records caught in March, April and May.
    On Saturday, it was chuckers everywhere for the gang aboard Bite Me.
    Kevin Branson, a visitor from Anchorage, Alaska, joined skipper Kevin Hiney and crew Agnus Nulle aboard Bite Me for a day full of action from start to finish.
    Kevin caught three shortbills – 25 to 35 lbs -- and a 275-lb blue marlin. All four billfish were tagged and released.
    But there is much more to the story.
    “We had ten chucker bites and lost seven,” Kefin Hiney said. “We lost a striped marlin, a mahimahi and an ono.”
    Some days the hooks might as well be made of rubber.
    Spearfish are notoriously hard to hook. They really do seem to play with lures as though they were toys. Think of a circus seal juggling a rubber ball and you get the picture.
    But you can never complain about any day filled with action and ending with four billfish.

OVERNIGHT SUCCESS ON KOKO. As I write this, Koko is working its way back up the coastline following an overnighter to South Point with Tom Rietow at the helm and Bill Jardine on deck. Bill checked in with a text message as they reached Kauna Point and started  looking for a marlin to complete a four-flagfish sweep.
“So far we are up to 22 ono, two mahimahi and two `ahi,” Bill wrote. “The `ahi are small and our biggest ono are around 45 – several like that.”
They only hit schools of ono once.
“The ono pretty much came in by ones and twos,” Bill texted. “Very thoughtful of them, really. Are you jealous yet?”

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Catch Report
Courtesy of Lona Knight, and Amber Hundall,
the Charter Desk at Kona Marina, 808-329-5735. A complete list of 
October catches will appear in the December issue of Hawaii Fishing News.

March/April/May Beasts (billfish over 500 pounds)
See also the beasts in the tag report

Mar. 25: Blue marlin (1,251) Jacques Noinain, Capt. Rob McGuckin, Integrity
March 31: Blue marlin (1,056) Matt Prater, Capts. Jeff Rogers, Rick Reger. Intrepid.
Apr. 4: Blue marlin (603) Steve Blackwood, Capt. Kerwin Masunaga, Holly Ann
Apr. 8: Blue marlin (600) Hayes, O’Doherty, Rice, Capt. Scott Kadooka, Alibi
Apr. 12: Blue marlin (643) Kawika Duncan, Aaron Duncan, 
	Little Spirit  (Angler's birthday)
Apr. 23: Blue marlin (506) John Babbe, Capt. Jeff Metzler, Anxious
May 3: Blue marlin (643) Denise Bailey, Capt. Dee Bradford, High Noon

March/April/May  Notable Catches

Mar. 2: Ono (47.5) Klowee and Brock Silva-Alameda, Makanalaniokekai
Mar. 2: Striped marlin (60) Jerry Axelsen, Capt. Wayne Knight, Playtime
Mar. 2: Ahi (95) Dick Russell, Capt. Ed Barnett, Reelentless
Mar. 3: Ahi (92) Bob Taraskiewicz, Capt. Howard Whitcomb, Billfisher II
Mar. 3: Ahi (170) Joe Day, Capt. Teddy Hoogs, Kila Kila
Mar. 3: Ahi (125.5) Don Kusterbeck, Capt. McGrew Rice, Ihu Nui
Mar. 3: Ahi (138) John Likarish, (173) Tom Poisin, Capt. Guy Terwilliger, Ho’okele
Mar. 4: Shibi (17 fish to 35 pounds) Lou Grobbler, Capt. Wayne Knight, Playtime
Mar. 4: Ono (seven fish to 50 pounds) Unknown, Capt. Vinny Maggio, Marlin Grando
Mar. 5: Mahimahi (five fish to 20 pounds) Unknown, Capt. Dick Peterson, Stimulator
Mar. 5: Ahi (131) Don Shrawder, Capt. Guy Terwilliger, Ho’okele
Mar. 7: Blue marlin (331.5) Henry Minich, Capt. Kent Mongreig, Fish Wish
Mar. 7: Spearfish (42.5) Dick Devries, Capt. Chip Van Mols, Monkey Biz
Mar. 7: Blue marlin (437.5) Kama Desilva, Capt. M. Desilva, Liko III
Mar. 8: Ono (38.5, 47.5) Mark Lyle, ono (40.5) and ahi (83) Tib Young, 
	Capt. Alan Borowski, Hapalaka
Mar. 8: Onaga (21), Capt. Dale Leverone, Sea Strike
Mar. 9: Ulua (29.5), Kaimana Llanes, Shoreline
Mar. 9: Ahi (97, 97, and 121), Greg Santistevan, 
      	Capt. Kevin Nakamaru, Northern Lights
Mar. 10: Ahi (125), unknown, Capt. Brian Wargo, Bite Me2
Mar. 11: Ono (41 and 48), unknown, Capt. Howard Whitcomb, Billfisher II
Mar. 11: Ahi (103), Greg Santistevan, Capt. Kevin Nakamaru, Northern Lights
Mar. 12: Omilu (18), Corey Lum Won, Shoreline
Mar. 13: Blue marlin (250), Eric Alberty, Capt. Tony Clark, Alibi
Mar. 14: Rainbow runner (18), Marc Vesprini, Capt. Kevin Hiney, Bite Me.
Mar. 14: Striped marlin (47.5), Tommy Cox, Chris Kam, Sea Wife II
Mar. 14: Kaku (41), J.D. Fouts, Capt. Mitch Stauffer, Billfisher II
Mar. 14: Striped marlin (47.5), Jack Edwards, Capt. Kenny Fogarty, Makana Lani
Mar. 14: Blue marlin (353.5), Bobby Schreiner, Capt. Al Borowski, Hapa Laka
Mar. 15: Blue marlin (494.5), unknown, Capt. Mark Schubert, Camelot
Mar. 15: Ahi (101), Mark Lawson, Randa Too
Mar. 15: Striped marlin (110), Donna Eaton, Capt. Brian Wargo, Bite Me2
Mar. 16: Blue Marlin (108.5) Cordell Lak, (95.5) Scott West, (399) Whitney
	West, mahimahi (35) Nadine West, Capt. Roger Duquette, Autumn Marie 
Mar. 16: Ono (46.5) Kevin Shea, Capt. Mike Shea, Wild Thing
Mar. 16: Ahi (142) Bonnie Sullivan, Capt. R. McGuckin, Integrity
Mar. 16: Mahimahi (51) unknown, Capt. Bill Crawford, Chiripa
Mar. 16: Ahi (90) Bo Bowers (13 years old) Capt. Brian Wargo, Bite Me2
Mar. 16: Ahi (115) unknown, Capt. Guy Terwilliger, Ho’okele
Mar. 17: Striped marlin (43) Ron Segar, Capt. Andy Diehl, Bite Me3
Mar. 17: Ahi (88.5) Patrick Howell, Capt. Kevin Nakamaru, Northern Lights
Mar. 18: Ahi (93, 104.5, 130.5, and 149) Michael Stewart, 
	Capt. McGrew Rice, Ihu Nui
Mar. 18: Mahimahi (eleven fish to 25 lbs) unknown, Capt. Tony Clark, Alibi
Mar. 18: Ono (four to 42 lbs) unknown, Capt. Bobby Cherry, Cherry Pit
Mar. 18: Mahimahi (44 fish to 37 lbs) Bowers family, Capt. Andy Diehl, Bite Me3
Mar. 18: Mahimahi (nine fish to 40 lbs) Dave Chestnut, 
	ono (35) Herb Jensen, Capt. John Wilson, Lawai’a
Mar. 18: Striped marlin (48.5) unknown, Capt. Jeff Heintz, Linda Sue III
Mar. 18: Mahimahi (fifteen fish to 28 lbs) unknown, Capt. Tim Hicks, Illusions
Mar. 18: Bigeye tuna (111.5) mahimahi (twenty fish to 40 lbs) Joey Guajardo, 
	Capt. Shawn Bebeau, Monkey Biz
Mar. 18: Blue marlin (75) Simon Maree, Capt. Marlin Parker, Marlin Magic II
Mar. 18: Ahi (80) Michael Stewart, Capt. McGrew Rice, Ihu Nui
Mar. 18: Triple Tail (4.5) Del Dykes, Capt. Del Dykes, Reel Action
Mar. 18: Blue marlin (145.5) striped marlin (63) Matt Ferino, 
	Capt. Ron Krumvieda, Terminator
Mar. 19: Blue marlin (161.5) Dale Sato, Capt. Lance Lauro, Nolinak
Mar.19: Striped marlin (43 and 51) D. Schine, Capt. E. Nose, I’Kona
Mar. 19: Ahi (147.5) mahimahi (ten fish to 25 lbs) Craig Smith, 
	Capt Kevin Nakamaru, Northern Lights
Mar. 20: Ono (57) Richard Faulkner, Capt. Larry Henry, Hula Girl
Mar. 20: Blue Marlin (470.5) Mike Conyers, Capt, Ron Krumvieda, Terminator
Mar. 20: Mahimahi (four to 22 lbs) Cal Lum, Herb Yamanaka, 
	Victor Shawe, Capt. Ron Clark, Alibi. 
Mar. 21: Ahi (145.5) Robert Adams, Capt. Chris Kam, Sea Wife II
Mar. 21: Ahi (89 and 137) John Thornton, (101.5) Sam Thornton, 
	(142) Hunter Ainslie, Capt. Kevin Nakamaru, Northern Lights
Mar. 21: Mahimahi (27 fish to 28 lbs) Janene Smith, 
	Capt Vinny Maggio, Marlin Grando
Mar. 21: Ahi (115) Jason Kiaha, (105) Sunny Medeiros, 
	Capt. Brian, Marlin Grando
Mar. 21: Ahi (12 fish to 20 lbs) unknown, Bite Me2
Mar. 23: Ono (46) Matt Genco, SPEARED
Mar. 24: Opakapaka (13.5 and 14.5) Francis Iwamoto, Donna Mae
Mar. 24: Mahimahi (15 fish to 25 pounds) Herb Yamanaka, 
   	Capt. Scott Kadooka, Alibi 2
Mar. 25: Blue marlin (208.5) Capt. Butch Chee, Duck Soup
Mar. 25: Blue marlin (397) Jim Blacklaws, Capt. Jeff Heintz, Linda Sue III
Mar. 26: Ahi (125.5) Oscar Kenny, Capt. Robert Hudson, Camelot
Mar. 26: Blue marlin (427.5) Joey Sorrells, Capt. Tim Hicks, Illusions
Mar. 26: Blue marlin (381) Nick Folk, Capt. Bill Casey, Pacific Blue
Mar. 27: Ono (four fish to 46 lbs) Bobby D, Capt. Jeff Heintz, Linda Sue III
Mar. 28: Blue marlin (153.5) Blake Zimmerman, Capt. Chris Kam, Sea Wife II
Mar. 29: Ahi (123.5) Ronald Buraglia, Capt. Steve DeBoer, Therapy
Mar. 29: Blue marlin (325) Michael Willard, Capt. Tony Clark, Alibi
Mar. 29: Ono (52) Elle Phillips, Capt. Brian Phillips, Addiction
Mar: 30: Ono (47) Trevor Brown, Bill Blaine, Kala O Kai
Mar. 30: Ahi (100 and 100) Gary Spiers, Capt. Peter Hoogs, Pamela
Apr. 1: Blue marlin (278) J. Lau, Capt. Kenny Llanes, Lehuanani
Apr. 2: Ono (5 fish to 47 pounds) Unknown, Capt. Howard Whitcomb, Billfisher II
Apr. 2: Spearfish (55.5) Miquela Romero (11 yrs old), Capt. Marlin Romero, 
	Lepika (Biggest of the year)
Apr. 4: Ono (67) Gary Kuket, Capt. James Dean, Blue Hawaii
Apr. 5: Blue marlin (486.5), ahi (78) Megan Boos, ahi (87) Wheeler Penick, 
	Capt. McGrew Rice, Ihu Nui
Apr. 5: Spearfish (52.5) Jim Grace, Capt. Martin Romero, Lepika (fly rod)
Apr. 6: Ono (53.5) Harry Medeiros, Hookum
Apr. 6: Ahi (139.5) JD Hudson, Capt. Daniel Schneider, Centipede
Apr. 7: Ahi (120) Pat McKinnon, Capt. McGrew Rice, Ihu Nui
Apr. 8: Mahimahi (six fish to 30 lbs.) Unknown, Capt. Roger Duquette, Autumn Marie
Apr. 8: Ono (twenty fish to 73 lbs) Scott McCaughern, 
	Capt. Lance Gelman Long Ranger
Apr. 9: Ahi (90, 94.5, 99, and 99) Parke Berolzheimer, 
	Capt. Kevin Nakamaru, Northern Lights
Apr. 9: Ono (five fish to 45-lbs) Gary Weber and family, Capt. Wayne Knight, Playtime
Apr. 10: Omilu (20) Kyle Kapuniai, SPEARED
Apr. 11: Ahi (134.5) Kevin Schwach, Capt. Guy Terwilliger, Ho’okele
Apr. 12: Striped marlin (90.5) Yearny Hall, Capt. Mike Oshiro, Krista O
Apr. 12: Ono (seven fish to 55 lbs) Jay, Ty and Jake Champagne, 
	Capt. Howard Whitcomb, Billfisher II
Apr.13: Blue Marlin (413.5) Marty Lutgendorf, Capt. Gary Sheenan, Hei mana
Apr.13: Ahi (83) Ben Koehler, ahi (112) Colin Arford, 
Capt. Brandon Oana, Stack Em High
Apr.13: Ahi (139) Caleigh Dykstra, Capt. Marshall Luke, Impulse
Apr.15: Mahimahi (38 fish to 25 pounds) Harley Sellers, 
	Capt. Gus Sellers, Kona Rainbow
Apr.16: Ahi (91.5 and 130) Scott Lee, Capt. McGrew Rice, Ihu Nui
Apr.16: Blue marlin (87.5) Matt Ellison, and (61) Ron Barlow, 
	Capt. Chris Kam, Seawife II
Apr.16: Ono (28, 48 and 60.5) Rick Kamaka Mikaele, 
	and Kahua Cagampang, Oh Right
Apr.16: Oi’o (4) Adam Jardine, shoreline
Apr.17: Ahi (90 and 90) Unknown, Capt. Kevin Nakamaru, Northern Lights
Apr.18: Blue Marlin (72.5) Ramak Amjad, Capt. Mitch Stauffer, Billfisher II
Apr.18: Ono (45) Unknown, Capt. Andy Deihl, Bite Me 3
Apr.19: Ahi (134.5) Gary Mattis, striped marlin (66) Derek Pang, 
Capt. Keala Cox, Theresa Sea
Apr.19: Ono (34) Bailey Pond, 12, ono (23) Ala Pond, 5, Capt. Carl Pond, Jordy-Ann
Apr.19: Striped marlin (53.5) Luke Fozanao, Capt. Gabriel Legay, New Horizon 
Apr.19: Ahi (171.5) Joe Solcher, ahi (151 and 110) John Patterson, 
Capt. Marlin Parker, Marlin Magic II
Apr.19: Ahi (100) Scott Lee, Capt. McGrew Rice, Ihu Nui
Apr. 21: Mahimahi (six fish to 30 pounds) Unknown, Capt. Wayne Knight, Playtime
Apr. 21: Striped marlin (70) Norma Olson, Capt. Jeff Heintz, Linda Sue III
Apr. 23: Spearfish (30) Laytin Reis, spearfish (30.5) Jayda Reis, 
	Capt. Scott Fuller, Sea Baby III (Twin brothers)
Apr. 25: Ono (18.5, 25, 28.5, and 34) Unknown, Capt. Chris Kam, Sea Wife II
Apr. 25: Ono (63) Pete Gierga, Capt. Robert Battersby, Pacific Lady
Apr. 25: Shibi (78 fish to 20 pounds) Jeff Heintz Jr., Capt. Jeff Heintz, Linda Sue III
Apr. 26: Ahi (140) Heather Maxwell, Capt. Kevin Nakamaru, Northern Lights
Apr. 26: Ono (six fish to 30 pounds) Unknown, Capt. Chris Kam, Sea Wife II
Apr. 27: Ono (21, 22) Abigail Foster (4-yrs old), Capt. Ryan Foster, Dojo 
Apr. 27: Ahi (111) Rodger Debebar, Capt. James Hamura, Rosanna
Apr. 27: Blue marlin (474.5) Sonny Yi, Capt. Mike Oshiro, Krista O
Apr. 27: Ono (five fish to 50 pounds) Todd Barrett, Capt. Al Gustavson, Top Shape
Apr. 29: Ahi (95) Ray Wetsoll, Capt. McGrew Rice, Ihu Nui
Apr. 29: Ahi (96) John Kovach, Capt. Russell Nitta, Lepika
Apr. 29: Kawakawa (20) Nancy Macoux, Capt. Guy Terwilliger, Ho’okele
Apr. 30: Ahi (126) Chris Zorbas, Capt. Kevin Nakamaru, Northern Lights
May 1: Ono (six fish to 30 pounds) Unknown, Capt. Wayne Knight, Playtime
May 1: Ono (six fish to 38 pounds) Unknown, Capt. Howard Whitcomb, Billfisher II
May 1: Ono (seven fish to 45 pounds) Pat and Scott Strader, Capt. Guy Terwilliger, Ho’okele
May 2: Blue marlin (294) Rich Giordano, Capt. Joe Schumaker, Jun Ken Po
May 3: Ono (50) Fred McCord, Capt. Kent Mongreig, Fish Wish
May 3: Mahimahi (five fish to 25 pounds) George and Annie Wartsbaugh, 
     ahi (55) Bob Eskridge, Capt. Dennis Cintas, Krista
May 3: Ono (four fish to 28 pounds) Unknown, Capt. Chris Kam, Sea Wife II

March/April Tag and Release (all weights estimated)
Mar. 1: Blue marlin (200), spearfish (40 and 40) Takekatsu Aoki, 
	Capt. Steve Tarbill, Kona Concept
Mar. 1: Bronze whaler (125) Tom Martins, Capt. Kent Mongreig, Fish Wish
Mar. 1: Ahi (130) Tom Britton, Capt. Chuck Wigzell, Hooked Up.
Mar. 2: Black marlin (180) Henry Hostelley, Capt. Billy Dorr, Sea Baby III
Mar. 2: Spearfish (30) Wayne Thomson, Capt. Chip Van Mols, Monkey Biz
Mar. 2: Blue marlin (250) Dick Russell, Capt. Ed Barnett, Reelentless
Mar. 2: Blue marlin (60) Walter Heller, Capt. Gene Vander Hoek, Sea Genie II
Mar. 2: Spearfish (35), Suzanne Gustavson, Capt. Al Gustavson, Topshape.
Mar. 3: Spearfish (30) Steve Kelley, Capt. Gene Vander Hoek, Sea Genie II
Mar. 3: Spearfish (35) Unknown, Capt. Mike Rand, Spellbound
Mar. 3: Spearfish (30) Cheryl Rossman, Capt. Kevin Hiney, Bite Me
Mar. 4: Striped marlin (50) Tyler Parham, Capt. McGrew Rice, Ihu Nui
Mar. 4: Striped marlin (65 and 70), blue marlin (125) Ray Rangal, 
	Capt. Will Lazenby, Golden Dragon
Mar. 9: Striped marlin (90), Roger Sharp, (110), Bob Sharp; 
	spearfish (40), Jeff Sharp, Capt. Wayne Knight, Playtime
Mar. 9: Blue marlin (700), Todd Barrett, Capt. Al Gustavson, Top Shape
Mar. 10: Bronze Whaler (140), unknown, Capt. Jeff Rogers, Aloha Kai
Mar. 10: Blue marlin (100), Bob Spooner, Capt. Wayne Knight, Playtime
Mar. 10: Spearfish (30 and 35), unknown, Capt. Chip Van Mols, Monkey Biz
Mar. 10: Silky shark (250), unknown, striped marlin (75), unknown, 
	Capt. Kent Mongreig, Fish Wish

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BIG-FISH LIST
 Big-Fish List. With one change this week, kawakawa, here are the biggest fish caught on rod and reel (except opakapaka, for which we'll accept hand line catches) in West Hawaii waters for 2008 in each of 22 categories. They are listed by species, weight, angler, skipper, boat, and date. The list is updated every Sunday throughout the year (copyright 2007 by Jim Rizzuto). If we have overlooked you, give us a call (885-4208) or send an e-mail (rizzuto@aloha.net).

* Blue marlin,1,251, Jacques Noinain, Capt. Rob McGuckin, Integrity. March 25.
* Black marlin, (vacant).
*`Ahi (yellowfin tuna), 190, Frankie Ventomilia, Capt. Guy Terwilliger, Ho’okele. Feb. 16.
* Bigeye tuna, 137. Peter Blake, TLC II. Feb. 17.
* Striped marlin, 92.5, Larry Raymond, Capt. Howard Whitcomb, Billfisher II. Jan. 22.
* Spearfish, 55.5, Miquela Romero (11), Capt. Martin Romero, Lepika. April 2.
* Sailfish, 61, Nolan and Kaoru Uyeda, Sailfish, March 22.
* Mahimahi, 57, Randy Tabayunda, Kyle Hirayama. Kainoalani. Feb. 23.
* Ono, 89, Arleen and Peter Fukuyama, Tia Moani. Mar. 18.
* Kaku (barracuda), 54, Todd Andrews, The Todd-a-yak. Feb 8.
* Kahala (amberjack), 105, Jamie Biddle, Capt. Dennis Cintas, Krista Feb. 8.
* Ulua (giant trevally), 69.5, Jason Border, Chuck Wigzell, Hooked Up. Jan. 4.
* Omilu (bluefin trevally), 24.5, Bert Llanes, from shore. Jan 28.
* Aku (skipjack tuna), Tom Williams, Capt. Guy Terwilliger, Ho’okele Feb. 6.
* Broadbill swordfish, (vacant).
* Ahipalaha (albacore), (vacant).
* Kawakawa, 20, Nancy Macoux, Capt. Guy Terwilliger, Ho’okele. April 29.
* Kamanu (rainbow runner), 23.5, Onipaa Matsuda, Dennis Matsuda, Laura K, March 24.
* Opakapaka (pink snapper), 15.5, Sueto Matsumura, Sandee. Feb. 21.
* Onaga (ulaula ko`aie), 21, Capt. Dale Leverone, Sea Strike. Mar 8.
* Uku (gray snapper), 22.5, Brent Kostka, Capt. Kent Mongreig, Fish Wish. Feb. 7.
 *`O`io (bonefish), 8, Payton Hahn, from shore. Feb. 14.

 Catch information courtesy of Andria Debina and Lona Knight of the Charter Desk at Kona Marina (329-573).
 

March/April/May Tag and Release (cont from left)

Mar. 11: Blue marlin (125), Ron Gibson, spearfish (35), Julie Gibson, 
	Capt. Kevin Hibbard, JR’s Hooker
Mar. 12: Striped marlin (50), Diane Butterfield, Capt. McGrew Rice, Ihu Nui
Mar. 12: Blue marlin (120), spearfish (30), Mike Stewart, 
	Capt Gene Vander Hoek, Sea Genie II
Mar. 13: Striped marlin (50), Susan Finkelstein, 
	Capt. Marlin Parker, Marlin Magic II
Mar. 13: Striped marlin (60), Mike Stewart, 
	Capt Gene Vander Hoek, Sea Genie II
Mart. 13: Striped marlin (60), Judy Elwood, Capt. Dennis Cintas, Krista
Mar. 15: Blue marlin (100), Wesley Faisfield, (100), Maurice Venice, 
	Capt. Kevin Hiney, Bite Me 1
Mar. 15: Blue marlin (450 and 65), unknown, Capt. Andy Deihl, Bite Me3
March 15: Striped marlin (75), Suzanne Gustavson, 
	Capt. Al Gustavson, Topshape.
Mar. 16: Spearfish (40) Micky McMillan, Capt. John Bagwell, Silky
Mar.16: Striped marlin (30) Unknown, Capt. Bill Crawford, Chiripa
Mar.16: Striped marlin (50) Unknown, Capt. Jeff Metzler, Anxious
Mar. 16: Blue marlin (90) Dennis Henrichs, Capt. Kent Mongreig, Fish Wish
Mar. 17: Spearfish (35) Ron Henson, Capt. John Bagwell, Silky
Mar.17: Spearfish (40) unknown, Capt. Tim Hicks, Illusions
Mar. 17: Striped marlin (75) Bo Bowers (13 years old) 
	Capt. Brian Wargo, Bite Me2
Mar. 18: Striped marlin (65) Damien Dorn, Capt. Dennis Cintas, Krista
Mar. 18: Spearfish (20 and 35) Scott Cathey, Capt. Chuck Wigzell, Hooked Up
Mar. 18: Spearfish (30) unknown, Capt. Chris Kam, Sea Wife II
Mar. 19: Blue marlin (550) Susan Sarnashi, Capt Jason Holtz, Marlin Magic
Mar. 19: Striped marlin (80) Mike Callahan, Capt. Billy Dorr, Sea Baby III
Mar.19: Blue marlin (250) unknown, sand bar shark (100) unknown, 
	Capt. Jeff Rogers, Aloha Kai
Mar. 20: Blue marlin (200) Richard Faulkner, Capt. Larry Henry, Hula Girl
Mar. 20: Striped marlin (70) blue marlin (90) unknown, 
	Capt. Rick Reger, Intrepid
Mar. 20: Spearfish (20) Joseph Milburn, Capt. Agnes Nulle, Bite Me
Mar. 20: Blue marlin (200) Michael Stewart, Capt. McGrew Rice, Ihu Nui
Mar. 21: Spearfish (45) unknown, Capt. Jeff Metzler, Anxious
Mar. 21: Spearfish (40) Tom Bates, Capt. John Bagwell, Silky
Mar. 21: Striped marlin (45 and 45) unknown, Capt. Brian Wargo, Bite Me2
Mar. 22: Spearfish (30) Harrison Stubbs, (30) Zachary Lankenau, 
	and (45) Garrett Stubbs, Capt. Agnes Nulle, Bite Me 
Mar. 23: Spearfish (50) Mike Stewart, Capt. McGrew Rice, Ihu Nui
Mar. 24: Spearfish (30 and 30) Unknown, Capt. Chris Kam, Sea Wife II
Mar. 24: Spearfish (40) Robert Hytner, Capt. John Bagwell, Silky
Mar. 24: Spearfish (40) Krista Becker, Capt. Billy Dorr, Why Knot
Mar. 25: Blue marlin (100) Dani Brown, Capt. Russell Nitta, Lepika
Mar. 25: Blue marlin (500) Hal Westbrook, 
	Capt. Kevin Nakamaru, Northern Lights
Mar. 25: Blue marlin (100) Bob Lindeman, Capt. Kent Mongreig, Fish Wish
Mar. 25: Spearfish (40) Zach Taylor, (40) Brad Taylor, 
	Capt. Dennis Cintas, Krista
Mar. 25: Blue marlin (450), striped marlin (40) Palmer Freshley, 
	Capt. Teddy Hoogs, Kila Kila
Mar. 25: Striped marlin (45) Unknown, Capt. Ricky Reger, Bite Me 3
Mar. 26: Spearfish (35) Alex Geison, Capt. Dennis Cintas, Krista
Mar. 26: Striped marlin (170) Robert Hytner, Capt. John Bagwell, Silky
Mar. 26: Spearfish (40) Chris Pike, Capt. Kent  Mongreig, Fish Wish
Mar. 27: Spearfish (40) Tom Purcell, Capt. Dennis Cintas, Krista
Mar. 27: Spearfish (40) Robert Hytner, Capt. John Bagwell, Silky
Mar. 27: Spearfish (25) Unknown, Capt. Andy Diehl, Bite Me 3
Mar. 28: Spearfish (35) Chris Brahm, Capt. Dennis Cintas, Krista
Mar. 28: Spearfish (40) Mike Stewart, Capt. McGrew Rice, Ihu Nui
Mar. 28: Striped marlin (65) Bob Spooner, Capt. Wayne Knight, Playtime
Mar. 29: Striped marlin (50) Mark Randolf, Capt. Tony Clark, Alibi
Mar. 29: Spearfish (40) Bruce Bischoff, Capt. Boyd Decoito, Foxy Lady
Mar. 30: Spearfish (35) Mike Stewart, Capt. Gene Vander Hoek, Sea Genie II
Mar. 30: Striped marlin (60) Chris McGowan, spearfish (35) Meghan Pozzi, 
	Capt. Kevin Hiney, Bite Me
Mar. 30: Spearfish (24, 34), blue marlin (325) Scott Martin, 
	Capt. Kevin Hibbard, JR’s Hooker
Mar. 30: Spearfish (50) Larry Angelitti, Capt. Jeff Metzler, Anxious
Mar. 31: Blue marlin (300) Unknown, Capt. Jeff Metzler, Anxious
Apr. 1: Spearfish (30), striped marlin (80) Kevin Merrill, Capt. Jeff Watson, Bite Me 3
Apr. 1: Spearfish (40) Mike Stewart, Capt. McGrew Rice, Ihu Nui
Apr. 1: Spearfish (30) David Johnson, Capt. Russell Nitta, Lepika
Apr. 2: Blue marlin (350) Mark Spangler, Capt. Dave Bertuleit, Kona Seafari
Apr. 2: Spearfish (35) Mike Stewart, Capt. Gene Vander Hoek, Sea Genie II
Apr. 2: Blue marlin (300) Steve Bryant, Capt. Chip Van Mols, Monkey Biz
Apr. 2: Blue marlin (500) Todd Hansen, spearfish (25) Tanner Hansen, 
	Capt. Mark Bartell, Spearfish
Apr. 2: Blue marlin (450) Unknown, Capt. Joe Schumaker, Jun Ken Po
Apr. 2: Spearfish (30) Terry Pottery, Capt. Kevin Nakamaru, Northern Lights
Apr. 3: Blue marlin (350), spearfish (35) Mike Stewart, 
	Capt. Gene Vander Hoek, Sea Genie II
Apr. 4: Blue marlin (140) Steve Bryant, Capt. Chip Van Mols, Monkey Biz
Apr. 4: Blue marlin (130) Henry D. Aranda, Capt. Kevin Hiney, Bite Me
Apr. 4: Spearfish (40) Unknown, Capt. Jeff Rogers, Aloha Kai
Apr. 5: Spearfish (35) Mike Stewart, Capt. Gene Vander Hoek, Sea Genie II
Apr. 6: Spearfish (35) Unknown, Capt. Dennis Smith, Nimble
Apr. 8: Blue marlin (100) Stephen Pomansi, Capt. Kevin Hiney, Bite Me
Apr. 8: Spearfish (25) Unknown, Capt. Harley Sellers, Reel Class
Apr. 8: Striped marlin (90) Thomas Ginman, and (90) Hayden Ginman, 
	Capt. Jeff Watson, Bite Me 3
Apr. 9: Spearfish (45) Unknown, Capt. Jeff Metzler, Anxious
Apr. 9: Striped marlin (50) Destiny Vallazares, Capt. Dave Bertuleit, Kona Seafari
Apr. 9: Spearfish (25) Keith Loveless, TN’T
Apt. 9: Striped marlin (70) Parke Berolzheimer, 
	Capt. Kevin Nakamaru, Northern Lights
Apr. 10: Blue marlin (90) Parke Berolzheimer, 
	Capt. Kevin Nakamaru, Northern Lights
Apr. 11: Spearfish (25) and striped marlin (140) Stalin Yang, 
	Capt. Kevin Nakamaru, Northern Lights
Apr. 11: Blue marlin (70) Unknown, Capt. Rick Reger, Intrepid
Apr. 12: Spearfish (30) Matt Mayers, Capt. Russell Nitta, Lepika
Apr. 12: Spearfish (35) Frank San Filippo, Capt. John Bagwell, Silky
Apr.13: Spearfish (45) Unknown, Capt. Neal Isaacs, Anxious
Apr.14: Spearfish (20) James Poppema, Capt. Chuck Wigzell, Hooked Up
Apr.15: Spearfish (35) Sean Sullivan, Capt. John Bagwell, Silky
Apr.16: Blue marlin (70) Jacklyn Claid, spearfish (30) Michael Stewart, 
Capt. Gene Vander Hoek, Sea Genie II
Apr.16: Oceanic white tip (170) Unknown, Capt. Jeff Metzler, Anxious
Apr.16: Spearfish (30) Unknown, Capt. Russ Nitta, Lepika
Apr.16: Spearfish (35), Unknown, Capt. Dennis Cintas, Krista
Apr.17: Spearfish (35) Michael Stewart, Capt. Gene Vander Hoek, Sea Genie II
Apr.17: Blue Marlin (475) Unknown, Capt. Joe Schumaker, Jun Ken Po
Apr.17: Spearfish (35) Troy Matus, Capt. John Bagwell, Silky
Apr.17: Spearfish (30) Unknown, Capt. Kevin Nakamaru, Northern Lights
Apr.18: Spearfish (25) Frank Riggio, Capt. Jeff Watson, Bite Me 2
Apr.19: Spearfish (38) Unknown, Capt. Wayne Knight, Playtime
Apr. 20: Striped marlin (40) Unknown, blue marlin (90 and 100) 
 	Unknown, Capt. Boyd Decoito, Foxy Lady
Apr. 20: Blue marlin (50) Jack Burton, Capt. Bruce Evans, Layla
Apr. 20: Spearfish (20) Sean Sullivan, Capt. John Bagwell, Silky
Apr. 20: Blue marlin (550) Michael Waugh, Capt. Kevin Nakamaru, Northern Lights
Apr. 21: Blue marlin (375) Shaundell Ross, spearfish (35) Mike Roberts, Malolo
Apr. 21: Blue marlin (100) Mike Stewart, Capt. Gene Vander Hoek, Sea Genie II
Apr. 21: Silky Shark (300) Unknown, Capt. Wayne Knight, Playtime
Apr. 22: Blue marlin (550) Unknown, Capt. Russell Nitta, Lepika
Apr. 22: Blue marlin (100) Scott Robert, Capt. Boyd Decoito, Foxy Lady
Apr. 22: Spearfish (30) Unknown, Capt. McGrew Rice, Ihu Nui
Apr. 22: Spearfish, blue marlin (60) Mike Stewart, 
	Capt. Gene Vander Hoek, Sea Genie II
Apr. 22: Spearfish (34) Mike Lange, Capt. Kevin Hibbard, JR’s Hooker
Apr. 24: Blue marlin (500) Mike Stewart, Capt. Gene Vander Hoek, Sea Genie II
Apr. 24: Spearfish (40) Unknown, Capt. Jeff Metzler, Anxious
Apr. 25: Blue marlin (700) Hayden Fein, Capt. Kevin Nakamaru, Northern Lights
Apr. 25: Blue marlin (500) Dave Edwards, Capt. Joe Schumaker, Jun Ken Po
Apr. 25: Spearfish (40) Unknown, Capt. Guy Terwilliger, Ho’okele
Apr. 25: Blue marlin (400) Unknown, sandbar shark (120) Unknown, 
	Capt. Jeff Rogers, Aloha Kai
Apr. 26: Spearfish (28, 30, and 35), blue marlin (275) Kevin Branson, 
	Capt. Kevin Hiney, Bite Me
Apr. 26: Blue marlin (125) Todd Garnett, Capt. Al Gustavson, Top Shape
Apr. 27: Spearfish (25) Unknown, Capt. Ricky Reger, Intrepid
Apr. 27: Spearfish (30) Todd Barrett, Capt. Al Gustavson, Top Shape
Apr. 28: Silky Shark (150) Unknown, Capt. Kent Mongreig, Fish Wish
Apr. 28: Blue marlin (250) Mike Jacobsen, Capt. James Dean, Blue Hawaii
Apr. 29: Spearfish (17) Unknown, Capt. Kenton Geer, High Noon
Apr. 30: Spearfish (25) Mike Telser, Capt. Jeff Kirby, Bite Me 2
Apr. 30: Spearfish (40) Chico LeClaire, Capt. Kevin Nakamaru, Northern Lights
May 1: Blue marlin (80) Jeff Ogden, Capt. Bobby Cherry, Cherry Pit
May 1: Spearfish (30) Jenny Morgan, Capt. John Bagwell, Silky
May 2: Spearfish (30) Robert Holding III, Capt. Gene Vanderhoek, Sea Genie II
May 3: Blue marlin (700) Robert Holding IV, Capt. Gene Vanderhoek, Sea Genie II
May 3: Blue marlin (200), striped marlin (45), spearfish (35) 
	Mark Menolascino, Capt. Russell Nitta, Lepika











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