Big ahi catch! 5/28/12

Husband and wife anglers Paul and Thora Theisen joined us for an exciting day fishing for tuna!  We found the north school all to our selfs and immediately starting to catch!  We went 6 for about 9 bites out of big yellow-fin tuna or Ahi.  The weights ranged from 50 lbs -to- 150 lbs.

Great way to start summer off, looking forward to the months ahead coming into our fishing season.

Still some great openings available during the next couple months.  Check our availability aboard Bwana from my website www.teddyhoogs.com and click on reservations to view open dates.

Aloha, Capt. Teddy Hoogs

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Bwana Sportfishing 650 lb Blue Marlin Released

March madness and April's good one!

March gave us some good action from all species, stripe marlin, ahi, few blues and a bunch of mahi mahi. Included in the post are some pics of the mahi madness and if you log onto my youtube account you can see some videos we made from our gopro of the recent action.

April gave us a good one, we released a blue estimated around 650 lbs and lost another one the same size or bigger that same day!  Again check out my youtube channel for some blood pumping video of that fish!  Youtube channel link: http://www.youtube.com/user/TeddyHoogs

The action has its good weeks and slow weeks this winter/spring, but all and all has been a decent year for fishing.

Aloha, Capt. Teddy Hoogs
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Been awhile...

For all you loyal followers and new visitors to Bwana sportfishing blog, I apologize for the lack of updating our blog with new adventures. A series of events had me pretty busy, now were just starting to settle back into all the new things in my life!

Back in June 2011 there was a lot of talk of our old boat Kila Kila coming back to Kona, also word of a new opportunity in the harbor and a captains position. I was fortunate enough to have the best of both worlds, still having access to the boat I fished and loved for a few years, Kila Kila, and I got the new captains position running a 2008 46' Gamefisherman, now named Bwana.

For a few months it was go go go, with the shipping of the new boat, relocation of Kila Kila from Oahu to Kona, and summer tournament season my crew Joe Thrasher and I were flat out.

Also to add to the new events, on January 22nd, 2012 my wife and I had our first child, Lillian Lehua Hoogs! We feel very fortunate with life's blessings and are very excited for the present and future.

We are still accepting bookings for sportfishing charters, now aboard Bwana. Fishing has been pretty good this year so far with two grander blue marlin already weighed and lots of winter time action, stripe marlin, ahi, mahi mahi and a few blues around.

We still have a couple tournaments this summer open, and blocks of time that should produce good fishing this year. Please check out our calender on our website www.teddyhoogs.com to check availability.

Look forward to reconnecting with my past clients and fishing with new ones, aboard the new operation!

Aloha, Capt. Teddy Hoogs

www.teddyhoogs.com

Blog revisited with recent fishing report

Sorry, it has been awhile since I last blogged! Been a busy couple months, lots on the plate...

I'll make this short and let you enjoy the awesome pictures from the last couple months of fishing. We have had some great new clients and some of our loyal regulars fishing with us recently.

My crew Joe Thrasher and I have been lucky enough to produce the action as you can see from the pictures. Couple big blues, striped marlin, mahi mahi, wahoo, and some big yellow-fin tuna!

Our spring bite has continued to keep us excited to fish and our clients excited to catch!

Enjoy the pictures!

Buoy action, Mahi Mahi and Big eye tuna! 12/22/10

Great fishing with one of "Play Time's " longtime clients. Capt. Wayne and I decided to head offshore to a fad buoy. We lucked out being the first and only one there and found great action. We picked up a couple good size mahi mahi and proceeded to catch as many 10-25# tuna as we wanted. We also missed a spearfish and a small blue in the same area.

Good fishing by anyone's standards. Enough action to put a smile on everyones faces, and keep our bellies full of good eating fish for Christmas!

Aloha, Capt. Teddy Hoogs

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First day aboard "Play Time"

Capt. Wayne Knight and I hosted husband and wife return clients from Colorado. They were excited to get back out on the ocean aboard Play Time, hopeing for a little luck too!

We set the lines out, gave a angling refresher course and it didn't take long for a reel to go off! We got lucky catching a 15# Mahi Mahi, just what we needed full-filling there order for something to eat during there stay.

Capt. Wayne continued North coming up to O-tec buoy. We picked up two more resident Mahi Mahi around the buoy and decided to take a look around after that bite slowed.

I just set the lures back in position and the long rigger started screaming! This fish was no Mahi Mahi, it had enough weight on the other end to be a marlin. We quickly got the rod to the chair in time to see a small blue marlin breaking the surface. We fought the fish up to the back of the boat in 10 minutes and released it in great shape.

Aloha, Capt. Teddy Hoogs

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