August 14, 2011 Kona Fish Report – Erika and Scott Want Ahi

Erika and Scott from Salt Lake, UT fished with me today.  Scott used to be a flyfishing guide and wanted to try his luck in the salt.  We headed to OTEC buoy to try our luck on the 40-50lbers that had been holding there.  The water was rough on the way up but we finally arrived at the buoy to see fish jumping everywhere.  I went right to the greenstick and on our first pass we hooked a nice 30lber.  Several passes later resulted in two more ahi in the 40-50lb range.  Scott was amazed as he watched ahi blast the dangling squids.  The water started to get rough so we headed farther offshore to look for the north porpoise school.  About 2 hours later I saw a few frigate birds and they were over feeding porpoise.  On our first pass I marked an ahi at 40 fathoms but no bite.  I made a few more passes when the water exploded behind the longrigger.  Scott was in the chair and did a great job using his leverage to fight the ahi to the boat in 20 minutes.  It was his first ahi and it weighed 101lbs!