July 2, 2012 Kevin Is Back For More Action (Day 1)

Kevin and his family is back in Kona and booked me for two days of full day fishing on the Lepika.  Last year we caught a nice blue marlin and a big ahi and this year we set out to do even better.  The fishing had slowed a little the last few days because the current is almost non exsistent along our coast.  The ahi are still showing a little if you know where to go but the marlin have almost all but disappeared.  We started early and headed straight out.  We found a porpoise school almost immediately but they were spread out for about two miles.  We trolled the school for a few hours without bite hoping the school would come together.  It wasn’t looking good so I headed to a nearby FAD (fish aggregating device) to get some action.  We were slmost to the buoy when my friend called and let me know the school had come together and he was marking fish.  He was some distance away so I pulled up the lines and ran about 9 miles to his location.  I put up the greenstick and got bit almost instantly!  James was up and fought his first 104lb ahi to the boat in about 15 minutes!  I ran back to the school but didn’t see any other fish with the porpoise so we trolled back to the FAD.  There were some nice fish on my sounder at the buoy so we went back to the greenstick to try and catch something to eat.  It took several passes but we caught a nice 35lb ahi and some 15lb aku as well.  We later caught some live bait and tried for bigger fish but none were feeding around the buoy.  Kevin and his family were able to get some nice fillets off the 35lb ahi and had a great dinner the following night!  Kevin and his family will fish next Monday again so hopefully we can get into more fish then….stay tuned for Day 2!