Booked a six hour afternoon trip with my wife and three kids. We do quite a bit of fishing back home in Washington, but our first experience warm water fishing.

Really like the boat layout as it’s not an enclosed cabin easy to walk around and comfortable seating.

Fishing had been slow, and we started on the troll. Deckhand Chris was changing up gear and easy and entertaining to talk to. Captain Jim was super pleasant too.

Had a release that didn’t stick halfway through the trip, and then found and caught some bait. So switched up techniques and fished a live bait, but couldn’t get a bite.

Was starting to get dark and Cap decided that we should try the troll one more time. Made a couple of laps around the bait but couldn’t get a fish to rise, so started trolling to port.

With deck lights on and the sun setting off the stern, the serenity of the moment was instantly shattered by one and then two reels shrieking!!

Pre-trip training for how to fight fish sprung into action as my son got into the fighting chair (the second fish got off). Superb coaching and positive encouragement from Chris on the deck and Captain Jim from the fly bridge, and 20 minutes later, a 72 inch blue marlin was in the boat and my son still hasn’t stopped smiling. What a way to end the day!!

Can’t say enough about this operation. Upbeat, knowledgeable, and experienced. Kept trying different things, made sure that hooks were sharp and gear running right, AND went the extra mile.

We know who we’ll be fishing with again when we come back!

We booked a 4 hour midday **hidden content**) trip with Captain Jim on Konadice. We figured this was a good length and start time for our family of four with 9 and 11 years old boys. Jim and his deck hand William were incredibly friendly, knowledgeable, and patient with our boys.
Jim took time to fish for bait fish, which gave the boys a catch. Then they were even more thrilled when we pulled in two 30-40 lbs tunas.
Jim and William helped us every step of the way to land our catch. They also cut us some of the fish, which we took to a local restaurant for dinner.

It was a great day! We had originally booked a Monday with them, but the weather was crap. About 30 minutes into it, Jimmy asked us what we had going on the rest of our time here and offered for us to move our trip to a day with better weather.  Before we headed back though, he did a little trolling outside the marina to see if he could get us some dinner at no additional cost.

We ended up heading out again on Thursday and told him that we wanted to go after some monsters, so he headed down south. We had a few hits that ended up getting off but was a great day offshore looking for the big boys. I’d definitely recommend going out with Jimmy and James if you make it to Kona!

Jim and James worked really hard to get us a fish! We had a few on the line that we lost, finally reeling in a great Shortbill spearfish! The guys were fun, and spent time teaching us about fishing the Kona coast. And we had a great fish filet for dinner that night. This is an older boat, not fancy, but gets the job done. The crew is fun and knowledgeable and will work hard to get you a catch! We would go again if we get the chance.

Booked a 10 hr trip had a great time .
Jim and his crew was great to fish with they worked hard to catch fish.
And did all they could for a member of our party whom got sea sick.
Had an awesome time catching a Blue Marlin.
Hopefully I’ll be back this winter again.
Thanks Jim God bless