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Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – August wrap-up.As I sit here and write this, Hurricane Madeline, now downgraded to a tropical storm is hitting the island. The East side will get some strong winds and a bunch of rain in just hours from now but the Kona side will remain sunny with only light winds. Why? Huge m...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – July wrap-up. The spearfish bite is no longer the top bite after having a solid five month run as the most common Kona catch. The peak of the blue marlin season is off to a slow start. The first weekend of the month and the 4th of July weekend tournaments on Monday resulted in s...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – June wrap-up.Just when I thought that the blue marlin count would take over the top spot for most common catch, the spearfish bite picked back up and re-took the lead as the most common catch of the month. Only the big game trophy hunters are complaining about it. Most of us c...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – May wrap-up. We had a nice steady North current for most of May and that always equates to a good billfish bite. Spearfish topped the list as the most common catch followed by Blue and then striped marlin. Kona’s first broadbill swordfish of the year was caught this month a...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – April wrap-up. It’s still the spearfish and it should be. If you’re a regular reader of my monthly fishing reports you know that it’s the spearfish that have been dominating the catch reports for the last few months. It should come as no surprise that spearfish dominated...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – March wrap-up. Again, for the third month in a row, it’s the spearfish that are dominating as the most common catch. That bite should continue through April. The striped marlin made a decent showing this month as would be expected and tapering down as the summer gets clos...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – Feb. wrap-up. Spearfish remains as the most common billfish being caught. They’re not a hard fighting fish at all. In fact, their favorite trick is to match the same speed that the angler is reeling in making the angler think that it came off. This is where the experienced...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – January wrap-up. So the competition begins! What will be the biggest fish of each species for the year? It doesn’t take much to make the “Big Fish List” in January especially when it’s the first one of its kind weighed in. The bite has been real good so far this year with spea...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – December and year end wrap-up. Happy New Year! 2015 flew by pretty fast. Doing a quick glance over my catches for the year, I have to say that it’s a good thing that Hawaii has the FAD program. Fish Aggregation Device’s kept me catching food fish on pretty much every trip. Th...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – November wrap-up. The striped marlin are starting to show up and right on cue. It will be interesting to see what this winters stripy run will bring because prior to 2011, we had several winters in a row with very few striped marlin showing up. In the past three winters, the...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – October wrap-up. October has always been one of my most favorite months to fish. It’s not quite winter yet so the blue marlin bite is usually still pretty good and that held true this October also. Just like I said last month, the reason less blue marlin are caught this time...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – September wrap-up. September is always the slowest month of the year for tourism but, hardly ever the slowest month for marlin. The only reason that there are less marlin being caught in this month (as usual) is that there are less boats going out. It’s always a weird feel...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii fishing report – August wrap-up. More “granders” for Kona! Last month there were two 1000+ marlin caught on the Big Island. One in Hilo and one in Kona. This month there were two more granders caught, both on the Kona side. The first one weighed in at 1075 lbs. and the next weighed in at 1309 l...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii fishing report – July wrap-up.July is a month with a lot of tournaments here and the marlin bite was good enough to make things exciting. The “World Cup” on July 4th has been a nail biter for years because of the close competition between Kona and Bermuda but this year it was Madeira that took...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii fishing report – June wrap-up. The blue marlin bite is ON and tops June as the most common catch. While most of them are small @ less than 200lbs., as is typical for this time of year, some of the bigger females have already started to show up. If you’re a regular follower of my reports you know...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii fishing report – May wrap-up. The number of “Grander” marlins caught in the world in 2015 now stands at three and all three were caught in Hawaii. Kona kicked it off with the first grander back in February and just this week, one grander was caught in Maui and another in Kona two days later. T...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii fishing report – April wrap-up. It’s beginning to look a lot like …… Summer!? If I didn’t have a calendar, the ocean would be telling me that it’s summer already. One summer indicator is the birds. Shearwaters are the most common sea bird we have here but in the winter, they are pretty scarc...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii fishing report – March wrap up. March has been a great month for catching billfish. We’re in the middle of spearfish season and the bite for them is good right now. Striped marlin season started slow but has really picked up this month. It usually slows down in April but because they came in...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii fishing report – February wrap-up. Kona does it again!! First “Grander” marlin of the year. We usually do. I say usually because last year we were just 6 days late to being the first in the world but that rarely happens. We are THE blue marlin capital of the world. The 1058 pounder was caught...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii fishing report – January wrap-up. The striped marlin have arrived. Not many of them yet but it is the beginning of the season for them so it should get better. Unlike the blue and black marlin, the striped marlin are a schooling fish so it’s possible to get more than one hooked up at the same t...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii fishing report – December Wrap-up. December isn’t really known as a big blue marlin month in Hawaii but over the several years I’ve been fishing here in Kona, I’ve seen it happen more than once that the really big blues show up in the winter. The big blue run started in November with the catc...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii fishing report – November wrap-up. Kona is the blue marlin capitol of the world and one of the reasons for that is that blue marlin are caught here every month of the year. Most other locations are seasonal. Kona is also well known for “Grander” blue marlin, weighing 1000 pounds or more. I m...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii fishing report – Oct. wrap-up. This October is going down in the records as the slowest in many years. Not as far as the catch goes but because of the lack of charter business. As I said last month, September is inherently slow for tourism but in October, it usually picks up. Not this year. On...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii fishing report – Sept. wrap-up.September is always an interesting month to report about for a couple of reasons. The first being that September is the slowest tourist season of the year so there is a lot less fishing effort from the Kona charter fleet, myself included. The other interest...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii fishing report – August wrap-up. I wrote the July wrap-up last month while the Hawaiian International Billfish Tournament (HIBT) was still going on and I didn’t even following what was going on during the tournament. I had other things going on that week. The HIBT is always scheduled ar...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii fishing report – July wrap-up. There are more fishing tournaments in July than any other month in Kona. One of the oldest marlin tournaments in the world, the 5 day Hawaiian International Billfish tournament is going on right now. Last month I was wondering if the big females would show u...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii fishing report – June wrap-up.The blue marlin bite is on! We’re not seeing many big ones here in Kona but there was a “grander” caught off of Oahu. Of the 3 granders caught in the world so far this year, 2 of them were caught here in Hawaii. The marlin we’re seeing in Kona are mostly in the 100 to 2...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii fishing report – May wrap-up.More and more blue marlin are starting to show up in Kona as we head toward summer and there were even a few “Beast” status marlins caught this month. A marlin is known as a “Beast” if it’s 500 or more pounds. If you ever get a chance to fight a marlin that big, you’ll...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii fishing report – April wrap-up. As the striped marlin season is ending, the biggest striped marlin of the year was weighed in this month and weighed in at 114.5 lbs. One thing to consider is even though the peak season is nearly over, that doesn’t mean that there won’t be any more striped ma...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii fishing report – March wrap-up. I mentioned in my January report that Kona has had the distinction for the past several years in a row of being the first place in the world where a “grander” (1000 pound +) marlin is caught each year. While there were some granders fought here in Kona since th...

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	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - August wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – August wrap-up.As I sit here and write this, Hurricane Madeline, now downgraded to a tropical storm is hitting the island. The East side will get some strong winds and a bunch of rain in just hours from now but the Kona side will remain sunny with only light winds. Why? Huge m...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	750	Aug 31, 2016 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - July wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – July wrap-up. The spearfish bite is no longer the top bite after having a solid five month run as the most common Kona catch. The peak of the blue marlin season is off to a slow start. The first weekend of the month and the 4th of July weekend tournaments on Monday resulted in s...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	621	Jul 31, 2016 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - June wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – June wrap-up.Just when I thought that the blue marlin count would take over the top spot for most common catch, the spearfish bite picked back up and re-took the lead as the most common catch of the month. Only the big game trophy hunters are complaining about it. Most of us c...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	592	Jun 29, 2016 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - May wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – May wrap-up. We had a nice steady North current for most of May and that always equates to a good billfish bite. Spearfish topped the list as the most common catch followed by Blue and then striped marlin. Kona’s first broadbill swordfish of the year was caught this month a...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	652	May 29, 2016 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - April wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – April wrap-up. It’s still the spearfish and it should be. If you’re a regular reader of my monthly fishing reports you know that it’s the spearfish that have been dominating the catch reports for the last few months. It should come as no surprise that spearfish dominated...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	558	Apr 30, 2016 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - March wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – March wrap-up. Again, for the third month in a row, it’s the spearfish that are dominating as the most common catch. That bite should continue through April. The striped marlin made a decent showing this month as would be expected and tapering down as the summer gets clos...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	481	Apr 1, 2016 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - Feb. wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – Feb. wrap-up. Spearfish remains as the most common billfish being caught. They’re not a hard fighting fish at all. In fact, their favorite trick is to match the same speed that the angler is reeling in making the angler think that it came off. This is where the experienced...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	645	Feb 28, 2016 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - Jan. wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – January wrap-up. So the competition begins! What will be the biggest fish of each species for the year? It doesn’t take much to make the “Big Fish List” in January especially when it’s the first one of its kind weighed in. The bite has been real good so far this year with spea...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	674	Jan 31, 2016 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - December wrap-up (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – December and year end wrap-up. Happy New Year! 2015 flew by pretty fast. Doing a quick glance over my catches for the year, I have to say that it’s a good thing that Hawaii has the FAD program. Fish Aggregation Device’s kept me catching food fish on pretty much every trip. Th...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	494	Jan 1, 2016 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - Nov. wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – November wrap-up. The striped marlin are starting to show up and right on cue. It will be interesting to see what this winters stripy run will bring because prior to 2011, we had several winters in a row with very few striped marlin showing up. In the past three winters, the...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	555	Nov 29, 2015 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - Oct. wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – October wrap-up. October has always been one of my most favorite months to fish. It’s not quite winter yet so the blue marlin bite is usually still pretty good and that held true this October also. Just like I said last month, the reason less blue marlin are caught this time...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	397	Oct 30, 2015 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - Sept. wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – September wrap-up. September is always the slowest month of the year for tourism but, hardly ever the slowest month for marlin. The only reason that there are less marlin being caught in this month (as usual) is that there are less boats going out. It’s always a weird feel...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	510	Oct 1, 2015 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - August wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii fishing report – August wrap-up. More “granders” for Kona! Last month there were two 1000+ marlin caught on the Big Island. One in Hilo and one in Kona. This month there were two more granders caught, both on the Kona side. The first one weighed in at 1075 lbs. and the next weighed in at 1309 l...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	484	Aug 29, 2015 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - July wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii fishing report – July wrap-up.July is a month with a lot of tournaments here and the marlin bite was good enough to make things exciting. The “World Cup” on July 4th has been a nail biter for years because of the close competition between Kona and Bermuda but this year it was Madeira that took...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	559	Aug 1, 2015 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - June wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii fishing report – June wrap-up. The blue marlin bite is ON and tops June as the most common catch. While most of them are small @ less than 200lbs., as is typical for this time of year, some of the bigger females have already started to show up. If you’re a regular follower of my reports you know...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	430	Jun 29, 2015 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - May wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii fishing report – May wrap-up. The number of “Grander” marlins caught in the world in 2015 now stands at three and all three were caught in Hawaii. Kona kicked it off with the first grander back in February and just this week, one grander was caught in Maui and another in Kona two days later. T...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	497	May 30, 2015 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - April wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii fishing report – April wrap-up. It’s beginning to look a lot like …… Summer!? If I didn’t have a calendar, the ocean would be telling me that it’s summer already. One summer indicator is the birds. Shearwaters are the most common sea bird we have here but in the winter, they are pretty scarc...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	450	Apr 29, 2015 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - March wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii fishing report – March wrap up. March has been a great month for catching billfish. We’re in the middle of spearfish season and the bite for them is good right now. Striped marlin season started slow but has really picked up this month. It usually slows down in April but because they came in...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	641	Apr 1, 2015 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - Feb. wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii fishing report – February wrap-up. Kona does it again!! First “Grander” marlin of the year. We usually do. I say usually because last year we were just 6 days late to being the first in the world but that rarely happens. We are THE blue marlin capital of the world. The 1058 pounder was caught...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	498	Feb 25, 2015 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - Jan. wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii fishing report – January wrap-up. The striped marlin have arrived. Not many of them yet but it is the beginning of the season for them so it should get better. Unlike the blue and black marlin, the striped marlin are a schooling fish so it’s possible to get more than one hooked up at the same t...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	450	Jan 31, 2015 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - Dec. wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii fishing report – December Wrap-up. December isn’t really known as a big blue marlin month in Hawaii but over the several years I’ve been fishing here in Kona, I’ve seen it happen more than once that the really big blues show up in the winter. The big blue run started in November with the catc...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	436	Dec 31, 2014 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - Nov. wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii fishing report – November wrap-up. Kona is the blue marlin capitol of the world and one of the reasons for that is that blue marlin are caught here every month of the year. Most other locations are seasonal. Kona is also well known for “Grander” blue marlin, weighing 1000 pounds or more. I m...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	419	Nov 30, 2014 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - Oct. wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii fishing report – Oct. wrap-up. This October is going down in the records as the slowest in many years. Not as far as the catch goes but because of the lack of charter business. As I said last month, September is inherently slow for tourism but in October, it usually picks up. Not this year. On...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	542	Oct 30, 2014 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - Sept. wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii fishing report – Sept. wrap-up.September is always an interesting month to report about for a couple of reasons. The first being that September is the slowest tourist season of the year so there is a lot less fishing effort from the Kona charter fleet, myself included. The other interest...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	484	Sep 27, 2014 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - August wrap-up. Aloha Kai (Preview) Kona Hawaii fishing report – August wrap-up. I wrote the July wrap-up last month while the Hawaiian International Billfish Tournament (HIBT) was still going on and I didn’t even following what was going on during the tournament. I had other things going on that week. The HIBT is always scheduled ar...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	399	Aug 27, 2014 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - July wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii fishing report – July wrap-up. There are more fishing tournaments in July than any other month in Kona. One of the oldest marlin tournaments in the world, the 5 day Hawaiian International Billfish tournament is going on right now. Last month I was wondering if the big females would show u...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	393	Jul 30, 2014 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - June wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii fishing report – June wrap-up.The blue marlin bite is on! We’re not seeing many big ones here in Kona but there was a “grander” caught off of Oahu. Of the 3 granders caught in the world so far this year, 2 of them were caught here in Hawaii. The marlin we’re seeing in Kona are mostly in the 100 to 2...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	419	Jun 29, 2014 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - May wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii fishing report – May wrap-up.More and more blue marlin are starting to show up in Kona as we head toward summer and there were even a few “Beast” status marlins caught this month. A marlin is known as a “Beast” if it’s 500 or more pounds. If you ever get a chance to fight a marlin that big, you’ll...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	459	May 31, 2014 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - April wrap-up (Preview) Kona Hawaii fishing report – April wrap-up. As the striped marlin season is ending, the biggest striped marlin of the year was weighed in this month and weighed in at 114.5 lbs. One thing to consider is even though the peak season is nearly over, that doesn’t mean that there won’t be any more striped ma...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	439	Apr 30, 2014 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - March wrap-up (Preview) Kona Hawaii fishing report – March wrap-up. I mentioned in my January report that Kona has had the distinction for the past several years in a row of being the first place in the world where a “grander” (1000 pound +) marlin is caught each year. While there were some granders fought here in Kona since th...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	426	Mar 29, 2014 by Capt Jeff Rogers
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