The latest Haleiwa, Oahu, Hawaii Fishing Report...
Captain's Log
Sun Mar 30, 2003 6:44:09 PM Haleiwa, Hawaii
Deb Townsend, Scot, Mike Corell, Wendy Stevens, and Capt Rusty with one 669 marlin and 3 of our 6 mahi on one hell of a good day.
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It was raining lightly when we left the harbor at 4:30 AM on this day of 10-20 mph south east winds headed for the LL buoy. By the time we were 10 miles from the buoy it was pouring rain constantly. Then as if we had planned it the rain stopped just as we got to the buoy. Our first pass we got a nice 20 pound mahi, second pass Deb caught a 30 pound bull mahi. Then we went to the light line and got some small aku and ahi, running 2 aku for live baits. The aku boat Neptune came to the buoy and was lifting small aku for awhile and then left. About this time we made our first pass baiting and Scot baited up 2 nice mahi, we saw more so back up we went. On this pass Scot hooked one mahi up and I saw a big boil where a big marlin had just grabbed something 15 yards of our beam. Within 20 seconds there was a big marlin in our wake and it eagerly came right up and took one of our aku. Scot free spooled the reel to let her swallow and then set the hook. There was no jumping or any long runs just a steady pull on the line. Mike had it easy this fish almost swam right to the boat, for a fish this size it was not putting up much of a fight, it was hooked deep and hurt by the hook. Within less than 20 minutes this monster was at leader, Scot pulled her up and I sunk the flying gaff in to her and all hell broke loose. She passed the boat and broke the starboard outrigger pulling a marlin wheelie, that sent Scot and me to the deck as the flygaff rope pulled tight. The leader broke somehow and she stayed hooked on the gaff, We pulled her close again and put another flying gaff in her, this time when she ran I just barely got my hand out of a loop in the rope. Not before she gave me a gorilla handshake to remember her by. At this point we could just tow her around till she calmed down. This time she was done when she came up and we adjusted her attitude and pulled her through the transom door, all but her tail fit. Then it was time to go home, anything else would have been anticlimactic. In the harbor she tipped the scales at 669 pounds, obviously our record for the year. I had no problem getting everyone to eat eyeballs with me even though I was the only one to eat one from the marlin. This was Wendy and Mike's second time fishing with us. We like lucky folks like them to fish with us. Great job all around. Aloha Capt. Rusty
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