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Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Some may ask the question; "how do you know what fish are being caught in Kona?" The answer is simple. Flags. On the way in at the end of the day, the boats fly a variety of fish flags from the right outrigger to brag about the days catch. There are different flags for different fish. August is supposed to be...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Tourism remains strong in Hawaii even with the Delta Variant threat. Many of us are concerned that our governor will lock us down again. Pretty much anyone who wants to be vaccinated in Hawaii can do it with ease and the Delta Variant has only minor effects on vaccinated people. With a lot of tourists...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

More and more tourists continue to pour into Kona and that means more and more boats going out fishing. In fact, some of the tourists are getting quite frustrated because they can't find a boat that isn't already booked up. That's not just for fishing charters but diving, snorkeling, dolphin swim, m...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – May 2021 wrap-up. The latest tourism statistic for Hawaii is that tourism is at 75% of the normal average. From my end, it seems like it's back up to 100%. I'm turning down people looking for fishing charters almost daily because I'm already booked up and I'm hearing the...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – April 2021 wrap-up. Tourism numbers continue to ramp up even with the Covid restrictions. One guy that wanted to fish with me called me up because it was getting close to his flight time and he still hadn't received his negative Covid results. He asked how strict Hawaii...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – March 2021 wrap-up. Tourism isn't up to 100% yet but it's getting fairly close. One very noticeable change is the behavior of the tourists. The majority of people who go on vacation make at least some plans on what activities they are going to do when they get there. What...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – February 2021 wrap-up. The tourists are coming! In fact, my phone has been ringing all morning with people looking to fish. I went from not fishing for over 2 weeks to having to turn people away because I'm already booked up. What a nice feeling. The few trips I did in Febr...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – January 2021 wrap-up.Just a decade ago, if someone would have suggested that one day soon there would be more snorkel and dive boats going out per day than fishing boats, they would have been laughed out of the harbor. But here we are. The snorkel and dive boats are pretty b...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – December 2020 wrap-up. The week between Christmas and New Years' has always been the busiest tourist week for Hawaii. People looking to get out of the cold and get just a little bit more summer in. While there are definitely a lot more tourists around than we've seen sin...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – November 2020 wrap-up. It's working! The Hawaii visitor Covid pre-testing program has been in effect for 6 weeks now. Tourism has been picking up and the daily number of Covid cases in all of Hawaii has remained at about the same level since mid September. Hotel and vac...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – October 2020 wrap-up. In a total change of pace for the governor of Hawaii, rather than extending the 14 day quarantine rule until November 1st like he said he would, the Covid 19 pre-testing program started on October 15th allowing visitors who test negative for the v...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – September 2020 wrap-up. The Hawaiian Islands had a huge surge of Covid 19 cases last month and shortly after my report last month, they shut down the charter fishing again. They didn't say we couldn't do any charters but the new ruling effectively did just that. The new...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – August 2020 wrap-up.Most of Kona noticed that there were a bunch of charter boats out fishing this month even though we still have a 14 day quarantine for the tourists. So how does that compute? That's because the boats out fishing were the gamblers. 4 tournaments with 11...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – July 2020 wrap-up. Anyone with half a brain knew that once businesses opened up again and people started to congregate more that there would be an up tick in Covid 19 cases. We just didn't know how much of an up tick. Some states got hit hard while others had basically no ch...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – June 2020 wrap-up. I know I have more than 10,000 monthly readers on the web and one or more of those readers work for the Department of Aquatic Resources. Just 3 days after posting last months report where I complained about not being able to charter fish, along with tha...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – May 2020 wrap-up.We still have no idea when charter fishing will be allowed to resume in Hawaii. Even if they did allow it right now there wouldn't be much business because of the current 14 day quarantine mandate.If you fly to Hawaii, you cannot leave your hotel, condo, ho...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – April 2020 wrap-up.You would think that during this pandemic that the ever changing rules concerning fishing in Hawaii would be easily found but they're not.In last months report I provided information to help navigate industry wide USCG "charter" laws and I was quick...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – March 2020 wrap-up.I know you're tired of hearing about Coronavirus already and you're looking forward to reading about fishing and I'm going to get to that but first I want to tell you about Hawaii's over reaction to the virus. On March 20th, the State "suspended" all "co...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – February 2020 wrap-up.February is always a tough month for the Hawaiian Islands because that's the month that we get the worst weather. Not at all bad weather compared to most places but we're spoiled here so when the temperature gets down near 60, we complain. When we get...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – January 2020 wrap-up.I said in last months report that the striped marlin bite was pretty good and that the peak season starts in January so the striped marlin bite should pick up and it did. So you might be thinking, Duh.... no brainer because it's the season. But, it doesn...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – December 2019 wrap-up.The striped marlin have arrived! The number of blue marlin caught is still out-pacing the stripes but not by much. The top months for striped marlin are January, February and March so it's looking pretty good so far. Spearfish season is also just st...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – November 2019 wrap-up.There really hasn't been any change since last month. Tourism is still in a big slump and the charter fishing industry is taking a big hit. I actually did pretty well in November for number of days out but on some of those days, I didn't see any other cha...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – October 2019 wrap-up.There certainly would have been more marlin caught in October if there had been more boats out. We expect the tourism to be slow in September but it should have picked up in October. It picked up a little but not like it should have. The State of Hawaii ke...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – September 2019 wrap-up.The marlin bite remained good at the beginning of the month but as the month progressed, the bite slowed down. Most of the marlin around are small males under 200 lbs. with only a smattering of bigger females. It's the end of the peak season for blue m...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – August 2019 wrap-up. - Very late -I had a regular reader of mine out fishing with me this week and he said he missed not reading my August report. I had put it up on my web site, facebook and other places before the end of the month but for some reason, I missed putting it on severa...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – July wrap-up.We're right in the middle of the famous Hawaiian International Billfish Tournament and this is their 60th anniversary. It's been an interesting tournament so far. If you've been a regular reader of mine, you would know that the big marlin have been quite sc...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – June wrap-up.The summer marlin tournaments have started and the bite for them has been good but by no means could it be called a hot bite. That's in part because of the current speed and direction as I mentioned in last months report. It still hasn't formed up very well but wh...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – May wrap-up.The Kona marlin bite remains good but the "HOT" bite from last month has cooled just slightly. Considering that it's the current speed and direction that turns the bite on and off here, the current did get wishy-washy this month and the bite could have really t...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – April wrap-up.THE BITE IS ON! Yes, I shouted that. I haven't seen so many fish flags flying in the harbor in quite some time. For those who don't know, the boats get to brag about their catches by flying fish flags (aka brag flags). There is a different colored flag with a fish...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – March wrap-up.If you read last month's report you already know that the seas have calmed down to normal but it didn't happen until about mid March. The calm seas allow the boats to fish a much wider area and the catches show it. More marlin are coming is and some of them are big...

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	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - August 2021 wrap-up. (Preview) Some may ask the question; "how do you know what fish are being caught in Kona?" The answer is simple. Flags. On the way in at the end of the day, the boats fly a variety of fish flags from the right outrigger to brag about the days catch. There are different flags for different fish. August is supposed to be...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	1009	Aug 30, 2021 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - July 2021 wrap-up. (Preview) Tourism remains strong in Hawaii even with the Delta Variant threat. Many of us are concerned that our governor will lock us down again. Pretty much anyone who wants to be vaccinated in Hawaii can do it with ease and the Delta Variant has only minor effects on vaccinated people. With a lot of tourists...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	704	Aug 4, 2021 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - June 2021 wrap-up. (Preview) More and more tourists continue to pour into Kona and that means more and more boats going out fishing. In fact, some of the tourists are getting quite frustrated because they can't find a boat that isn't already booked up. That's not just for fishing charters but diving, snorkeling, dolphin swim, m...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	681	Jul 4, 2021 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - May 2021 wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – May 2021 wrap-up. The latest tourism statistic for Hawaii is that tourism is at 75% of the normal average. From my end, it seems like it's back up to 100%. I'm turning down people looking for fishing charters almost daily because I'm already booked up and I'm hearing the...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	734	May 31, 2021 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - April 2021 wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – April 2021 wrap-up. Tourism numbers continue to ramp up even with the Covid restrictions. One guy that wanted to fish with me called me up because it was getting close to his flight time and he still hadn't received his negative Covid results. He asked how strict Hawaii...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	714	Apr 29, 2021 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - March 2021 wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – March 2021 wrap-up. Tourism isn't up to 100% yet but it's getting fairly close. One very noticeable change is the behavior of the tourists. The majority of people who go on vacation make at least some plans on what activities they are going to do when they get there. What...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	747	Mar 31, 2021 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - February 2021 wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – February 2021 wrap-up. The tourists are coming! In fact, my phone has been ringing all morning with people looking to fish. I went from not fishing for over 2 weeks to having to turn people away because I'm already booked up. What a nice feeling. The few trips I did in Febr...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	751	Mar 1, 2021 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - January 2021 wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – January 2021 wrap-up.Just a decade ago, if someone would have suggested that one day soon there would be more snorkel and dive boats going out per day than fishing boats, they would have been laughed out of the harbor. But here we are. The snorkel and dive boats are pretty b...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	700	Jan 31, 2021 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - December 2020 wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – December 2020 wrap-up. The week between Christmas and New Years' has always been the busiest tourist week for Hawaii. People looking to get out of the cold and get just a little bit more summer in. While there are definitely a lot more tourists around than we've seen sin...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	770	Dec 30, 2020 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - November 2020 wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – November 2020 wrap-up. It's working! The Hawaii visitor Covid pre-testing program has been in effect for 6 weeks now. Tourism has been picking up and the daily number of Covid cases in all of Hawaii has remained at about the same level since mid September. Hotel and vac...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	716	Nov 29, 2020 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - October 2020 wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – October 2020 wrap-up. In a total change of pace for the governor of Hawaii, rather than extending the 14 day quarantine rule until November 1st like he said he would, the Covid 19 pre-testing program started on October 15th allowing visitors who test negative for the v...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	666	Oct 30, 2020 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - September 2020 wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – September 2020 wrap-up. The Hawaiian Islands had a huge surge of Covid 19 cases last month and shortly after my report last month, they shut down the charter fishing again. They didn't say we couldn't do any charters but the new ruling effectively did just that. The new...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	758	Oct 1, 2020 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - August 2020 wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – August 2020 wrap-up.Most of Kona noticed that there were a bunch of charter boats out fishing this month even though we still have a 14 day quarantine for the tourists. So how does that compute? That's because the boats out fishing were the gamblers. 4 tournaments with 11...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	727	Aug 31, 2020 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - July 2020 wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – July 2020 wrap-up. Anyone with half a brain knew that once businesses opened up again and people started to congregate more that there would be an up tick in Covid 19 cases. We just didn't know how much of an up tick. Some states got hit hard while others had basically no ch...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	745	Jul 31, 2020 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - June 2020 wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – June 2020 wrap-up. I know I have more than 10,000 monthly readers on the web and one or more of those readers work for the Department of Aquatic Resources. Just 3 days after posting last months report where I complained about not being able to charter fish, along with tha...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	775	Jun 30, 2020 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - May 2020 wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – May 2020 wrap-up.We still have no idea when charter fishing will be allowed to resume in Hawaii. Even if they did allow it right now there wouldn't be much business because of the current 14 day quarantine mandate.If you fly to Hawaii, you cannot leave your hotel, condo, ho...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	765	May 31, 2020 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - April 2020 wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – April 2020 wrap-up.You would think that during this pandemic that the ever changing rules concerning fishing in Hawaii would be easily found but they're not.In last months report I provided information to help navigate industry wide USCG "charter" laws and I was quick...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	815	Apr 29, 2020 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - March 2020 wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – March 2020 wrap-up.I know you're tired of hearing about Coronavirus already and you're looking forward to reading about fishing and I'm going to get to that but first I want to tell you about Hawaii's over reaction to the virus. On March 20th, the State "suspended" all "co...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	746	Mar 31, 2020 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - February 2020 wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – February 2020 wrap-up.February is always a tough month for the Hawaiian Islands because that's the month that we get the worst weather. Not at all bad weather compared to most places but we're spoiled here so when the temperature gets down near 60, we complain. When we get...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	894	Mar 1, 2020 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - January 2020 wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – January 2020 wrap-up.I said in last months report that the striped marlin bite was pretty good and that the peak season starts in January so the striped marlin bite should pick up and it did. So you might be thinking, Duh.... no brainer because it's the season. But, it doesn...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	758	Feb 2, 2020 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - December 2019 wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – December 2019 wrap-up.The striped marlin have arrived! The number of blue marlin caught is still out-pacing the stripes but not by much. The top months for striped marlin are January, February and March so it's looking pretty good so far. Spearfish season is also just st...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	813	Dec 30, 2019 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - November 2019 wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – November 2019 wrap-up.There really hasn't been any change since last month. Tourism is still in a big slump and the charter fishing industry is taking a big hit. I actually did pretty well in November for number of days out but on some of those days, I didn't see any other cha...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	886	Nov 30, 2019 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - October 2019 wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – October 2019 wrap-up.There certainly would have been more marlin caught in October if there had been more boats out. We expect the tourism to be slow in September but it should have picked up in October. It picked up a little but not like it should have. The State of Hawaii ke...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	815	Oct 30, 2019 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - September 2019 wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – September 2019 wrap-up.The marlin bite remained good at the beginning of the month but as the month progressed, the bite slowed down. Most of the marlin around are small males under 200 lbs. with only a smattering of bigger females. It's the end of the peak season for blue m...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	876	Sep 30, 2019 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - August 2019 wrap-up. -Very Late- (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – August 2019 wrap-up. - Very late -I had a regular reader of mine out fishing with me this week and he said he missed not reading my August report. I had put it up on my web site, facebook and other places before the end of the month but for some reason, I missed putting it on severa...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	764	Sep 21, 2019 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - July 2019 wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – July wrap-up.We're right in the middle of the famous Hawaiian International Billfish Tournament and this is their 60th anniversary. It's been an interesting tournament so far. If you've been a regular reader of mine, you would know that the big marlin have been quite sc...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	811	Jul 31, 2019 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - June wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – June wrap-up.The summer marlin tournaments have started and the bite for them has been good but by no means could it be called a hot bite. That's in part because of the current speed and direction as I mentioned in last months report. It still hasn't formed up very well but wh...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	825	Jun 29, 2019 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - May wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – May wrap-up.The Kona marlin bite remains good but the "HOT" bite from last month has cooled just slightly. Considering that it's the current speed and direction that turns the bite on and off here, the current did get wishy-washy this month and the bite could have really t...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	756	May 29, 2019 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - April wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – April wrap-up.THE BITE IS ON! Yes, I shouted that. I haven't seen so many fish flags flying in the harbor in quite some time. For those who don't know, the boats get to brag about their catches by flying fish flags (aka brag flags). There is a different colored flag with a fish...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	814	Apr 30, 2019 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - March wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – March wrap-up.If you read last month's report you already know that the seas have calmed down to normal but it didn't happen until about mid March. The calm seas allow the boats to fish a much wider area and the catches show it. More marlin are coming is and some of them are big...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	829	Mar 30, 2019 by Capt Jeff Rogers
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