Archive | Bottom Fishing/Vertical Jigging

No trolling bites today while deep sea fishing off the Big Island but we did catch some Amberjack vertical jigging off the bottom! Amberjack Vertical Jigging

Trolling has been pretty slow these last 3 days for the Hooked Up and the rest of the Kona fleet of charter boats. Have to wait for a new batch of good water or fish or something to change. But we did end up catching some small tuna and bottom fish for a few trips […]

We fished a 3/4 and half day today. Both trips we had kids so trip kind of revolved around them.. First trip the boys got some small tuna after the trolling for bigger fish had no success. The second trip did some bottom drops and hooked a big amberjack but a shark took most of […]

Trolling was has been little tuff and no small tunas also for the kid to catch so Captain Rocky went to the reef for them..

Caught Terri and Lue a stripe marlin and did a late half day again. The late half caught a bunch of amberjack vertical jigging… Plus got to see a big tiger shark.

Rocky missed a spearfish on a half day but did some reef fishing for the family and the kids got to catch and see some fish!

Captain Rocky and Hooked Up had a great day. The first fishing trip was a 3/4 day and they released a blue marlin. Second trip customers wanted to vertical jig on the bottom. So they caught a nice Amberjack doing that technique. Then the trolling to and from the vertical jigging spot they caught two […]