Archive for: Fishing
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Big Island, Hawaii
To celebrate the beginning of winter, we took a short trip out to the Big Island in search of gamefish and lava flows. We saw both from a distance, but weren’t lucky enough to bring anything home. Spearfishing with a Hawaiian sling was a lot of fun, and we ate enough Spam to have a […]
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Albacore II
This was our second trip for tuna, and we all came home feeling really horrible. It isn’t often that we get a chance to deplete one of nature’s most precious resources so thoroughly in one day. This was some seriously ridiculous tuna fishing! I think we came home with close to 100 lbs. of cleaned […]
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Albacore I
Fishing for tuna is characterized by highs and lows. The 8 hour-long ride out to the fishing grounds is definitely a low. The throwing up is a low. The coffin-sized bunk that smells like rotting feet is definitely a low. But when a 30 lb. albacore hits your sardine at 25 mph, that is a […]
