Birds and Bait Delight in Kona

 | By Seamus on 7/8/2011 2:45:03 AM | Views (682)

The ocean is alive and The Bite is happening!

We were fishing a Kona tournament on the Bite Me 4 when we came across this school of ahi just a few miles outside Honokohau Harbor. We took the opportunity to reel in a small tuna and use it as live bait for awhile.

 

You might think fishing with live bait is best, but that's not always the case. In fact, we usually troll with lures. But in the right circumstances a nice-sized Ahi tuna could be just the thing you need to hook up a large, hungry blue marlin. When the water is glassy and calm, a bait fish splashing along the surface of the water can be just the thing you need to tease or attract a blue marlin to the surface to investigate. But on this day, our tuna got sharked and we didn't get any bites.

We had a feeling it was time troll and not use live bait. We were about to switch it up when we heard over the radio one of our friends had just hooked up to a marlin. We had just watched them troll by us five minutes earlier. We switched to trolling lures right away!

Not long after that we got two knockdowns and watched a marlin go after two lures. It was "hootered," which means the curve of the hook got wrapped around over the bill insted of getting hooked into the mouth. When a fish gets hootered it usually gets away as soon as the hook slides off. Sure enough, our marlin peeled out line, and then jumped off.

Its not uncommon to hook-up to a 300-400 pound blue marlines in these Hawaiian waters. Occassionally you might even catch a big 700-800 pounder, but those are really large ones! And the biggest marlins top 1,000 pounds! That's what makes marlin fishing in Kona so exciting!

 

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Catch Information

Species:
Blue Marlin


Yellowfin Tuna

This Fishing Report was submitted on 7/8/2011 2:45:03 AM by Seamus and last updated on 7/8/2011 2:45:03 AM.

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