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Post by dive2cfish on Sept 7, 2009 15:05:10 GMT -5
Just got back from Hawaii. Took the red eye home, 18 hrs of traveling, and loseing a day. Had a good fishing trip on the third. Took some pics, will post when I get them off my camera. Time to mow the lawn, after almost two weeks. That succccs.
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Post by goindeep on Sept 7, 2009 19:37:17 GMT -5
Welcome back Chris. Lookin forward to the pics.
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Post by ripnlips on Sept 8, 2009 8:25:39 GMT -5
glad to see ya made it back safe. you didn't miss much. we went out sunday and got 2 mangos about 14", a few spanish macks, a couple of short grouper, and jumped 2 tarpon. we did get into a school of jacks. they were running 3 to 4 pounds. they stuck around for about 15 minutes before they left. also saw a school of about 30 cobia that weren't hungry.
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Post by ripnlips on Sept 11, 2009 16:25:11 GMT -5
courtesy of chris.    o.k. now give us the whole story. |
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Post by goindeep on Sept 11, 2009 23:30:35 GMT -5
Awesome Hoo!
Are those first ones BFTs?
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Post by steelcity on Sept 12, 2009 10:58:27 GMT -5
look like skippies. don't taste like black fins.
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Post by havetofish on Sept 12, 2009 11:24:28 GMT -5
Yep, look like Skipjack Tuna
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Post by dive2cfish on Sept 13, 2009 16:48:37 GMT -5
Hey guys, sorry I haven't responded, but my father in law passed away on Friday. Have been fielding and making alot of phone calls the last couple of days. My wife is O.K. Been preparing for this for a while. Anyway, yes those are skipjacks. In Hawaii they call them Otaru tuna. They were about 12-15 lbs. Fun to catch. Fortunately they were caught on stand-up gear. The Ono, (Wahoo) was about 30 lbs. Yum!!!! Guess what I had for dinner that night?!! I wound up giving the rest of the filets to the staff that worked at where I was staying, (abouth 15 lbs of filets). Gave the skippies to a local homeless person at the marina. I also had a run on a Marlin, about 200-250 lbs. Got off after about 50 yrd run. He jumped once, and spit the bait. The coolest part of the trip was the Yellowfin tuna. I was reeling in a skippy when all of a sudden, he goes air-born about 30 ft. from the boat. Watched a 150-200 lb. Yellowfin eat it like a piece of candy. Had him on for about 30 seconds, then see ya, outa here. The Yellowfin was what I really wanted to catch, but it was so cool to see this happen. The Captain of the boat was goin' nuts. We circled back around and actually got the tuna to hit again but after a short run, it came off. It's just so cool that you can catch these type of fish so close to shore. The Wahoo was landed about 500 yards from shore. The tuna , skippies, and Marlin, within 1 mile. One other cool thing, got to see a Manta ray just swimming around. Man, those things are huge. Easily 12-15 ft across. I would love to dive with them. Just an awesome animal. So anyway, that was my trip. Had a blast. If anybody out there is going to be in Kona, Captain Jeff Rodgers is the man. The boat I chartered was the "Aloha Kai". He will get you fish. Hey Mario, thanks for posting the pics. Did you make it out to the SSP today? I was just not up to it. I won't make it out there Tuesday cause we have to go to my father in laws place to sort through his stuff. I should be out there next Sunday.
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Post by SkyJay on Sept 13, 2009 17:13:29 GMT -5
Chris,
Condolences to you, your wife, and family. Even when you expect it, it's still pretty tough.
Great report. Glad your trip went off so well for you.
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Post by dive2cfish on Sept 13, 2009 17:45:00 GMT -5
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Post by knottybynature on Sept 13, 2009 19:08:28 GMT -5
hey chris, yeah me and my dad made it down. he hooked about a 80 lb tarpon, got it to the pier, had it on its side and broke the line for the relese. it took him from 166 to 136 back up to 143 for the release. took about 25 minutes for that fight. all that on 17lb mono on what was goin to be our sabiki rig but he put a tarpon rig on. the water felt like it cooled down big time. the pin fish r starting to get huge, 8 and 9 inch pins. the sardines r back to. no snapper, no grouper, 1 trout. a couple strikes on the mack rigs but we had the wrong tide all day. my dad met polkcopierfisher... i think thats how u spell it. sorry he couldnt shake ur hand but he was busy with the tarpon.
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Post by dive2cfish on Sept 13, 2009 19:48:41 GMT -5
Thanks Jay, it's all good. Hey Knotty, glad you didn't make the trip for nuthin'. The Boneheads should be showing up soon. Good times for all.
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Post by ripnlips on Sept 14, 2009 10:32:07 GMT -5
let kim know that our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. i lost my aunt last year to cancer. it's been very difficult for me but i know she's in a better place now. let us know if we can help you in any way.
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