Unlike the Blue which is essentially a lone-wolf predator, the Stripers often travel in pairs; male and female. Stripers are often found away from the usual banks and bottom curves that many other fish hang around in, and most interestingly, the Stripers often school up in deep water hundreds of miles off shore out of range of most day trips, but certainly within range of our Long Range Charters.
Although not as large on average as the Blue, the Striper can be an awfully fun fish to play, especially on light tackle. Because of this, Sportfish Hawaii anglers like to switch to lighter tackle in areas where we believe Stripers are more prevalent than Blues.
Black Marlin are very rare in Hawaiian waters; we only average about half a dozen or so a year throughout the whole state. It is thought that the Black Marlins that travel away from their "home" in Australia strayed following a school of bait and forgot the way back after the feeding frenzy dissipated. Not much is known about the breeding or feeding habits of the Black in Hawaii, and all of the Blacks landed are incidental catches while trolling or baiting for Blues.
We hear Blackies put up one heck of a fight, but frankly, none of the Sportfish Hawaii anglers have ever caught one. This fish is one of the reasons why Hawaii is able to provide such diversity to the Angling Adventurer.
The Broadbill, a night fish caught using a lightstick at the end of the line basically the same trolling methods, just done at night , supplements the Billfishing activity after everyone else has gone home. These fish are more abundant in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands than in the main islands; possibly as a result of overfishing by commercial fishermen. The Broadbill is a delicacy known as Shutome in Japan, and they have truly become a specific target of longliners looking for supplements to their stocks when the tuna bite is slow.
This fearless little predator is often a precursor to the Marlin. If a hook up with a Spearfish is made while trolling for other gamefish, pay attention to the direction the fish was headed, which you can sometimes tell by watching the strike or by the feel of which boat heading makes for a more difficult fight.
Since the Spears and the Marlin eat the same food, once you know with some degree of accuracy where the Spear came from, you have a good chance of going in that direction to find the Marlin. It may not happen the same day, but usually within the next couple of days, especially if the Spears are schooling, the Blues will be right behind. If you have light tackle and happen to run across one, play it and then actually say you intended to do it, the gang back at the dock will call you a liar.
This beautiful species is one in a million in Hawaii, so if you get one, the best thing to do is immediately go buy a lottery ticket, because you are on a hot streak. This Hawaiian staple table food fish is also one of the most exciting to angle for. While out cruising for Marlin, the anglers of Sportfish Hawaii will often find a cargo net, a piece of plywood or some other floating debris with a nice school of Mahi-Mahi underneath it.
We try to catch the first one as we troll by the hazard, and if we get a good hookup on about a fifteen pounder, we either leave it on the rod or set it out on a bleach bottle rig attached to a 40 foot piece of 20lb line. The Mahi will return to the school, and as he does, one crew will go below and get out the light tackle casting gear while two or three crew will watch the bottle and the floating debris.
Then the fun really begins. We cast live Opelu if we have it , spoons or small plugs with or without dead bait into the school, and we then spend a couple hours fighting beautiful, rambunctious fish. The lighter the tackle, the more fun the fishing. Because it is so far from other land, most endemic species arrived via the wind, waves, or wings birds and insects. Various fish species from other habitats have been deliberately or accidentally introduced to Hawaii.
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