Mike, Debbie and their son Bryan flew in from Oahu to fish for the day. They’re hardcore steelhead fisherman from the northwest and decided to give the Kona waters a try. I decided to try south since the marlin bite had been pretty good in that area. The current had changed a little that day and only a few boats managed blue marlin. As we headed south we found a porpoise school being fished by several other boats. We went right to the greenstick which had been working lately. We made several passes but didn’t mark any fish on the sounder. After several hours I decided to give up when I saw an ahi jump in the distance chasing flying fish. 
I headed that way and marked the fish on the sounder…no bite. I spun the Lepika around for another pass and had a nice ahi blow up on the last squid. Bryan was in the chair and foughthis first ahi (141lbs) to the boat in under 20 minutes!
