Booked a six hour afternoon trip with my wife and three kids. We do quite a bit of fishing back home in Washington, but our first experience warm water fishing.

Really like the boat layout as it’s not an enclosed cabin easy to walk around and comfortable seating.

Fishing had been slow, and we started on the troll. Deckhand Chris was changing up gear and easy and entertaining to talk to. Captain Jim was super pleasant too.

Had a release that didn’t stick halfway through the trip, and then found and caught some bait. So switched up techniques and fished a live bait, but couldn’t get a bite.

Was starting to get dark and Cap decided that we should try the troll one more time. Made a couple of laps around the bait but couldn’t get a fish to rise, so started trolling to port.

With deck lights on and the sun setting off the stern, the serenity of the moment was instantly shattered by one and then two reels shrieking!!

Pre-trip training for how to fight fish sprung into action as my son got into the fighting chair (the second fish got off). Superb coaching and positive encouragement from Chris on the deck and Captain Jim from the fly bridge, and 20 minutes later, a 72 inch blue marlin was in the boat and my son still hasn’t stopped smiling. What a way to end the day!!

Can’t say enough about this operation. Upbeat, knowledgeable, and experienced. Kept trying different things, made sure that hooks were sharp and gear running right, AND went the extra mile.

We know who we’ll be fishing with again when we come back!

We booked a 4 hour midday **hidden content**) trip with Captain Jim on Konadice. We figured this was a good length and start time for our family of four with 9 and 11 years old boys. Jim and his deck hand William were incredibly friendly, knowledgeable, and patient with our boys.
Jim took time to fish for bait fish, which gave the boys a catch. Then they were even more thrilled when we pulled in two 30-40 lbs tunas.
Jim and William helped us every step of the way to land our catch. They also cut us some of the fish, which we took to a local restaurant for dinner.

Captain Jim and his deckhand James were great!  We hooked up on fish going to where we planned to troll for the day but unfortunately we didn’t land those. We did land several tuna and lost some at the boat.  They both were very personable and easy to talk to.  They also did a great job breaking up the silence in the moments between catching fish.