October 18, 2011 – Martin and I Fish Kahoolawe!

Martin Romero (previous owner of the Lepika) is back in town from Taos, NM.  I didn’t get a chance to fish with Martin this summer because I was busy with charters and he went back to Taos to spend time with his children and grandkids.  Martin loves to catch blue marlin but the marlin bite was really slow so I decided to take him up North to look for the porpoise school we had caught the ahi in with Kurt the day before.  The water was dead flat calm today which makes it hard to locate the porpoise because they tend to wander really far north.  Today, they were REALLY far north.  Another boat the Lightspeed, run by Capt. Rob, had found the school and called me to relay his position…31 miles north of Kona.  He was 12 miles away from my position and I looked at Martin and said “Should we go?”  Why not?  We’re already out this far what’s another 12 miles!  So off we went…  Kahoolawe loomed in the distance and we could see the red dirt mountains and scattered trees.  I had never been this close to another island on the Lepika.  I felt a little out of place.  Rob had been trolling the school for about an hour without any bites so I went to the greenstick right away.  On our first pass I marked a fish shallow and it came up and ate one of the squids.  Martin set himself up in the chair and made quick work of the ahi that weighed 115lbs.  It was getting late so we started our 3 hour run back to the harbor with the island of Kahoolawe closer to us than Kona!