Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - April 2022 wrap-up. - Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - March 2022 wrap-up. I'm not really sure what to write this month because I was in a bed, both in the hospital and at home for most of it. Some may have noticed that I did last month's wrap-up several days before the ac more...
Capt. Jeff Rogers - Kona

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - March 2022 wrap-up. - Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - March 2022 wrap-up. This month has been a wild yo-yo ride. The sea conditions and the currents have been switching all over the place and the bite has been doing the same. Some days when you come in at the end of the d more...
Capt. Jeff Rogers - Kona

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - February 2022 wrap-up. - Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - February 2022 wrap-up. So the striped marlin finally arrived. Not in any kind of numbers though. The blue marlin bite is still out-pacing the striped marlin bite. Some really nice size blues have been showing up. I had more...
Capt. Jeff Rogers - Kona

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - January 2022 wrap-up. - Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - January 2022 wrap-up. If you're a professional fisherman, bleeding is just part of the job. Getting poked by fish spines and hooks happens. It takes a special talent to get hooked like this though. On my last fishing t more...
Capt. Jeff Rogers - Kona

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - December 2021 wrap-up. - Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - December 2021 wrap-up. The blue marlin bite remains pretty good and there was even a 900 pounder caught this month but most of the marlin being caught right now are the smaller males averaging about 150 lbs. It's strip more...
Capt. Jeff Rogers - Kona

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - November wrap-up. - Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - November wrap-up. If you've been following my reports for the past several months you know that both the marlin and ahi seasons have been all out of whack this year. We didn't have a good marlin bite in peak season but more...
Capt. Jeff Rogers - Kona

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - October wrap-up. - Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - October wrap-up. So I have good news and bad news for all of Hawaii's fishermen. The good news is that the FAD's are going back in. Here in Kona we already got all of our FAD's back except F buoy. I saw the picture tak more...
Capt. Jeff Rogers - Kona

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - September wrap-up. - Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - September wrap-up. The blue marlin finally showed up. The standard that I use to determine if the marlin bite is good or not is two fold. Number one is, are some boats catching more than one marlin in a day? Number two more...
Capt. Jeff Rogers - Kona

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - August 2021 wrap-up. - 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 more...
Capt. Jeff Rogers - Kona

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - July 2021 wrap-up. - 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 more...
Capt. Jeff Rogers - Kona