OK folks, most of you already know the capt. is a little loony, but after much deliberation, calculation and begging it looks as though this is the new vessel, and that is final:

Port view Bow view Console view

THANK YOU Capt. Dad for the correct fathom to feet conversion. At this point now I can't clearly recall how deep we were it just seemed like thousands of feet after trolling for so long. Anyways check out the new edition (transfer pending) to the capt.'s fleet. Introducing CLOSENFFer: Check it out.

More pics from Kona, the blue marlin on the left weighed in @ 185lbs., just a pup. I did NOT catch him, tho the capt. almost lied about that until he was warned that if he was caught lying, he'd have his beard tarred. The Wild West had a helluva crew although we only caught skippies and a shark, which a shark is similiar to a catfish on the CLOSENFF point system. The pic on the right was two of many porpoises we followed. In theory the porpoise follow the Ahi, in reality they are just fun to watch and yeilded no yellowfin, but look how blue the water is, that was at about 30 fathoms (180 ft. deep).

Some pics from Kona, on the big island of Hawaii. We set out in search of some Blue Mar and/or Ahi. We did manage to catch the bait (skipjack or Oku in the middle) but only managed to land the whitetip shark on the left. I had the shark on a 20lb. test rod for about 1 min. until he sawed off the line, he hung around and a girl on the boat had the honors. The big Ahi or yellowfin tuna on the right weighed in at 148lbs. Unfortunately I didn't catch it but was still worth pic.

A nice largemouth taken on a very cold lonely morning. Wind was blowing and my nose was running. No sign of stripers this morning. Made it out that evening for a sunset cruise. The fish may not always be there but the sunsets always are...

Hey there folks, some technical difficulties and slow fishing has caused the recent delay in posts. Still have to go through some of the pics from Hawaii too. But in the meantime to wet your FS blog appetite here's some shots from this previous week on LKN. We've caught a bunch of small largemouth (too small to photograph) that were schooling up around the shoals. Michelle killed the white perch on bait (it's ok Michelle you can touch him!!), we caught 5. I managed a couple of smaller stripers making casts with crankbaits.