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Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – Febuary wrap-up.Kona has one of the most stable fishing environments on the planet. Calm seas and sunshine is the norm. Getting rained on while out fishing is almost unheard of. The common wind pattern is that the strong winds (trade winds) hit the other side of the island...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – January wrap-up.Finally I can stop complaining about the lack of tourism due to the volcano eruption last May through July. I guess the word finally got out that Kona hasn't been covered by lava. This was a busy January and my 2019 calendar is filling fast.The fish are here...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – December wrap-up.The week between Christmas and the New Year is typically the busiest tourist season in Hawaii but tourism is still way down here on the Big Island because of the volcano. It shut off five months ago so you might figure that the effect on tourism would have b...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – November wrap-up.The blue marlin bite remains pretty good for it being the off season. We've even had some BIG ones showing up. Even more in numbers than we had during the peak summer blue marlin season. The striped marlin should have started showing up in October but they...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – October wrap-up.It can sometimes be quite difficult to gauge the bite in Kona and even more so lately. I use to be able to read the weekly catch report in the local newspaper but just a little over a year ago, the author of that weekly column, Jim Rizzuto passed away and the wee...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – September wrap-up.September is typically the slowest tourist season month for Hawaii but this September was particularly brutal. Tourism is the foundation of Hawaii's economy. While the other islands have had slight increases in tourism this year, the Big Island fe...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – August wrap-up.Ahi both big and small were the main catch this month. I'm not just counting charter boats but also the many small boats that have been hanging around F buoy. It more resembles a parking lot on the ocean out there with most of the boat sizes ranging from 18 feet...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – July wrap-up. The blue marlin bite remained good as it should for summer. I made the prediction in last month's report that the big female marlin would be showing up soon and they did. Not just in Kona but all over the islands. On both Kauai and Oahu, grander marlins were cau...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – June wrap-up.Tourism is starting to pick up now that the lava flows on the other side of the island aren't making headline news. It was down about 50% last month. That means more fishing boats out and more fish caught. The marlin bite has been pretty hot but the size has been o...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – May wrap-up.The fish aren't afraid of the volcano! That's the headline. And guess what? The people in Kona aren't afraid of it either. I've been getting calls all month from concerned relatives and vacationers who have booked fishing trips with me. Let me state here with...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – April wrap-up.The blue marlin bite is on! Almost all of the boats are getting bit daily but on average, more marlin are lost than are caught. Even with that, some boats are catching 2, 3 or even 4 marlin in a day. The spearfish bite is much the same with multiple catches. Just y...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – March wrap-up. March has always been one of my favorite months to fish. The water conditions really change in March. January and February are our rough water months. This January and February were pretty mild for sea conditions overall but those flat calm seas that star...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – February wrap-up. Some nice size blue marlin showed up this month with several "beast" status marlin caught. Some were kept but most of them were released. FYI, a 500+ lb. marlin is a "beast". Kona is usually the best place in the world to land the coveted first "grander" (...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – January wrap-up. The new year started off great and was just a continuation of the hot bite on blue marlin and spearfish that we were experiencing in December. That lasted into the middle of the month. Then I didn't fish for a week and when I went back out there, everything h...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – December wrap-up.What a great way to end the year! There was a bite on almost everything this month. Winter is usually the slowest time of the year for blue marlin but the bite was about as good as it gets even in the summer months. All sizes, big to small but still no “grander”...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – November wrap-up.There’s a good bite going on right now. It started early in the month with a good blue marlin bite and just past mid month, an ono run completely out of season and mahi mahi close to shore swimming with them. There would have been a whole lot more fish caught t...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – October wrap-up.October has often been one of my favorite months to fish because often it’s just an extended summer month with flat seas, light winds and a pretty decent bite but this October we got hit by a couple of winter storms. The last one dumped so much rain on us that i...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – September wrap-up. Summer is tournament season and while the main prize is always for the biggest blue marlin or the most marlin tagged and released, most of the tournaments also award points for ahi and spearfish and even other tournaments have categories for biggest...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – August wrap-up. There were a few good size marlin brought in this month and last month also, since I didn’t report on the fishing last month. I would have to say that the most spectacular of those big marlin catches was a 901 lb. black marlin caught on the same day I did my last...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – July wrap-up. Its tournament season and blue marlin season but all of the Kona fishermen have had a hard case of the blues this month. If you’re at all familiar with the Kona fishery or even Hawaii fishing at all, the name Jim Rizzuto should be a quite familiar name to you. Ji...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – June wrap-up.We’re just getting into the peak blue marlin season here in Kona. June is kind of the lead-in. While a few nice ones were brought in this month, the numbers are a little lighter than we expected. We don’t expect to see many striped marlin in the summer but there’...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – May wrap-up.The blue marlin bite remained kind of average for May. The striped marlin season is almost over and we never really did have a good run on them this season. This month there were some good size stripes caught but just like in the past couple of years, we haven’t se...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – Apr. wrap-up.April was pretty decent for the blue marlin bite. Some good size ones were caught but we still haven’t seen a grander so far this year. The spearfish bite was on and off throughout the month and even a few striped marlin were caught but about the middle of the mon...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – Mar. wrap-up.While March isn’t known to be a hot month for blue marlin, there were certainly plenty caught this month. March has long been known as the best “grander” month for Kona but so far, no granders yet for the year. Last year was the first time in a long time that no gra...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – Feb. wrap-up.We’re past the middle of our striped marlin season and I had given up on there being a striped marlin run this winter but all of the sudden, some started showing up. That’s a good sign but I’m not getting up my hopes for any kind of a good run this year. I’d sure like...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – Jan. wrap-up. The blue marlin bite has been pretty good so far this winter even though it’s not the season for them. Yes I said the same thing in last months report and I will redundantly repeat that it’s striped marlin season now but that bite isn’t happening. We should hav...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – Dec. wrap-up.The spearfish moved in early this season and quickly became the top catch in Kona for the month. Even though it’s the off season for blue marlin, we’re not the blue marlin capital of the world for nothin’. Any time of the year we can get a decent blue marlin run an...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – Nov. wrap-up. The no-grander countdown is getting closer. I really didn’t expect there to be a grander marlin caught in November anyway just because it’s only happened once in our recorded history and the odds of one being caught in December isn’t too good either (but no...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – Oct. wrap-up.Still no 1000 pound “Grander” marlin for Hawaii this year and November isn’t known as a good grander month. In fact, the first November grander ever landed was just a couple of years ago in 2014. Could it be that Hawaii won’t see any granders this year? It’s sta...

Capt Jeff Rogers · Capt Jeff Rogers

Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – Sept. wrap-up.September has always been an odd month for fishing in Kona. Typically, the summer marlin bite is still on but tourism takes a dive so with few boats out, there’s not much fishing effort. The “fishing effort” always plays a role in the total fish catch, that’s...

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	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - Febuary wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – Febuary wrap-up.Kona has one of the most stable fishing environments on the planet. Calm seas and sunshine is the norm. Getting rained on while out fishing is almost unheard of. The common wind pattern is that the strong winds (trade winds) hit the other side of the island...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	622	Feb 27, 2019 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - January wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – January wrap-up.Finally I can stop complaining about the lack of tourism due to the volcano eruption last May through July. I guess the word finally got out that Kona hasn't been covered by lava. This was a busy January and my 2019 calendar is filling fast.The fish are here...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	588	Jan 30, 2019 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - December wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – December wrap-up.The week between Christmas and the New Year is typically the busiest tourist season in Hawaii but tourism is still way down here on the Big Island because of the volcano. It shut off five months ago so you might figure that the effect on tourism would have b...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	706	Dec 31, 2018 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - November wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – November wrap-up.The blue marlin bite remains pretty good for it being the off season. We've even had some BIG ones showing up. Even more in numbers than we had during the peak summer blue marlin season. The striped marlin should have started showing up in October but they...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	692	Nov 30, 2018 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - October wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – October wrap-up.It can sometimes be quite difficult to gauge the bite in Kona and even more so lately. I use to be able to read the weekly catch report in the local newspaper but just a little over a year ago, the author of that weekly column, Jim Rizzuto passed away and the wee...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	741	Oct 31, 2018 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - September wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – September wrap-up.September is typically the slowest tourist season month for Hawaii but this September was particularly brutal. Tourism is the foundation of Hawaii's economy. While the other islands have had slight increases in tourism this year, the Big Island fe...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	690	Sep 29, 2018 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - August wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – August wrap-up.Ahi both big and small were the main catch this month. I'm not just counting charter boats but also the many small boats that have been hanging around F buoy. It more resembles a parking lot on the ocean out there with most of the boat sizes ranging from 18 feet...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	590	Aug 31, 2018 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - July wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – July wrap-up. The blue marlin bite remained good as it should for summer. I made the prediction in last month's report that the big female marlin would be showing up soon and they did. Not just in Kona but all over the islands. On both Kauai and Oahu, grander marlins were cau...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	448	Jul 30, 2018 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - June wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – June wrap-up.Tourism is starting to pick up now that the lava flows on the other side of the island aren't making headline news. It was down about 50% last month. That means more fishing boats out and more fish caught. The marlin bite has been pretty hot but the size has been o...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	509	Jul 1, 2018 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - May wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – May wrap-up.The fish aren't afraid of the volcano! That's the headline. And guess what? The people in Kona aren't afraid of it either. I've been getting calls all month from concerned relatives and vacationers who have booked fishing trips with me. Let me state here with...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	475	May 31, 2018 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - April wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – April wrap-up.The blue marlin bite is on! Almost all of the boats are getting bit daily but on average, more marlin are lost than are caught. Even with that, some boats are catching 2, 3 or even 4 marlin in a day. The spearfish bite is much the same with multiple catches. Just y...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	468	Apr 29, 2018 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - March wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – March wrap-up. March has always been one of my favorite months to fish. The water conditions really change in March. January and February are our rough water months. This January and February were pretty mild for sea conditions overall but those flat calm seas that star...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	563	Mar 31, 2018 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - February wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – February wrap-up. Some nice size blue marlin showed up this month with several "beast" status marlin caught. Some were kept but most of them were released. FYI, a 500+ lb. marlin is a "beast". Kona is usually the best place in the world to land the coveted first "grander" (...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	623	Feb 28, 2018 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - January wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – January wrap-up. The new year started off great and was just a continuation of the hot bite on blue marlin and spearfish that we were experiencing in December. That lasted into the middle of the month. Then I didn't fish for a week and when I went back out there, everything h...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	520	Jan 31, 2018 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - December wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – December wrap-up.What a great way to end the year! There was a bite on almost everything this month. Winter is usually the slowest time of the year for blue marlin but the bite was about as good as it gets even in the summer months. All sizes, big to small but still no “grander”...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	596	Dec 31, 2017 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - November wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – November wrap-up.There’s a good bite going on right now. It started early in the month with a good blue marlin bite and just past mid month, an ono run completely out of season and mahi mahi close to shore swimming with them. There would have been a whole lot more fish caught t...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	588	Nov 29, 2017 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - October wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – October wrap-up.October has often been one of my favorite months to fish because often it’s just an extended summer month with flat seas, light winds and a pretty decent bite but this October we got hit by a couple of winter storms. The last one dumped so much rain on us that i...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	495	Oct 29, 2017 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - September wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – September wrap-up. Summer is tournament season and while the main prize is always for the biggest blue marlin or the most marlin tagged and released, most of the tournaments also award points for ahi and spearfish and even other tournaments have categories for biggest...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	488	Sep 27, 2017 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - August wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – August wrap-up. There were a few good size marlin brought in this month and last month also, since I didn’t report on the fishing last month. I would have to say that the most spectacular of those big marlin catches was a 901 lb. black marlin caught on the same day I did my last...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	575	Aug 30, 2017 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - July wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – July wrap-up. Its tournament season and blue marlin season but all of the Kona fishermen have had a hard case of the blues this month. If you’re at all familiar with the Kona fishery or even Hawaii fishing at all, the name Jim Rizzuto should be a quite familiar name to you. Ji...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	673	Jul 30, 2017 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - June wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – June wrap-up.We’re just getting into the peak blue marlin season here in Kona. June is kind of the lead-in. While a few nice ones were brought in this month, the numbers are a little lighter than we expected. We don’t expect to see many striped marlin in the summer but there’...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	601	Jun 29, 2017 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - May wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – May wrap-up.The blue marlin bite remained kind of average for May. The striped marlin season is almost over and we never really did have a good run on them this season. This month there were some good size stripes caught but just like in the past couple of years, we haven’t se...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	570	May 31, 2017 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - Apr. wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – Apr. wrap-up.April was pretty decent for the blue marlin bite. Some good size ones were caught but we still haven’t seen a grander so far this year. The spearfish bite was on and off throughout the month and even a few striped marlin were caught but about the middle of the mon...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	515	Apr 29, 2017 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - Mar. wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – Mar. wrap-up.While March isn’t known to be a hot month for blue marlin, there were certainly plenty caught this month. March has long been known as the best “grander” month for Kona but so far, no granders yet for the year. Last year was the first time in a long time that no gra...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	539	Mar 29, 2017 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - Feb. wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – Feb. wrap-up.We’re past the middle of our striped marlin season and I had given up on there being a striped marlin run this winter but all of the sudden, some started showing up. That’s a good sign but I’m not getting up my hopes for any kind of a good run this year. I’d sure like...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	545	Mar 1, 2017 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - Jan. wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – Jan. wrap-up. The blue marlin bite has been pretty good so far this winter even though it’s not the season for them. Yes I said the same thing in last months report and I will redundantly repeat that it’s striped marlin season now but that bite isn’t happening. We should hav...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	546	Jan 30, 2017 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - Dec. wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – Dec. wrap-up.The spearfish moved in early this season and quickly became the top catch in Kona for the month. Even though it’s the off season for blue marlin, we’re not the blue marlin capital of the world for nothin’. Any time of the year we can get a decent blue marlin run an...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	593	Dec 28, 2016 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - Nov. wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – Nov. wrap-up. The no-grander countdown is getting closer. I really didn’t expect there to be a grander marlin caught in November anyway just because it’s only happened once in our recorded history and the odds of one being caught in December isn’t too good either (but no...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	594	Nov 30, 2016 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - Oct. wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – Oct. wrap-up.Still no 1000 pound “Grander” marlin for Hawaii this year and November isn’t known as a good grander month. In fact, the first November grander ever landed was just a couple of years ago in 2014. Could it be that Hawaii won’t see any granders this year? It’s sta...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	672	Oct 30, 2016 by Capt Jeff Rogers
	Kona Hawaii Fishing Report - Sept. wrap-up. (Preview) Kona Hawaii Fishing Report – Sept. wrap-up.September has always been an odd month for fishing in Kona. Typically, the summer marlin bite is still on but tourism takes a dive so with few boats out, there’s not much fishing effort. The “fishing effort” always plays a role in the total fish catch, that’s...	Capt Jeff Rogers	0	664	Oct 1, 2016 by Capt Jeff Rogers
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