The marlin was 3 meters long (about 9.8ft) and weighed 150kg (330lbs). I don't know if this is a good size or not, but it is the biggest fish that we have ever fished in our whole life. Since our dreams came true, we have a new dream, which is to catch a marlin over 4 meters long, and weighing over 200kg.

After 30 years of being a bridesmaid we finally took 1st prize in a tournament with a 77.6 lb Mako shark. Prize was cash and fishing equipment worth about $4,000.

(Jerry is a good friend of Mike and Kathy of Sportfish Hawaii.  The man loves to fish, and we congratulate him and his team on their win!)

Dear Mike,

This is a picture of my friends and I with our catch from off the coast of Lanai. My dad and I were invited for a fishing trip about the OFFSHORE HUNTER to celebrate my friend Matthew’s 10th birthday. It was my first deep sea fishing trip. We left Maui from Mala Wharf at 4:30 in the morning on May 13, 2000. In less than an hour and a half we hooked up 7 Mahimahi and landed six of them. We also caught two aku.

The biggest Mahimahi we caught that day was about 45-pounds. The bull Mahimahi I caught was 32-pounds. It was my first! Matthew caught an 18 pounder and Tyler caught a 15-pound Mahimahi. Of course, there was the one that got away from me on a snapped line just before we were able to get him on the boat. We figured he was over 60 lbs. since he was almost as long as the back of the boat.

Congratulations to Cord...way to go!!

Its a pleasure hearing from you and I'm glad to see how well everyone is doing. I was off shore here in New Jersey with my buddies two weeks ago, we were heading out for Blue Fin Tuna on the troll and to set up to drift overnight for Mako Shark. We ran off approximately 50 miles to an area known as "little Italy" and started an 8 mile troll to some known good Mako grounds called the "Triple Wrecks" we picked up one 60 plus pound Blue Fin. The water was flat with the wind blowing about 5 knots. On the overnight we were chumming with frozen ground up Bunker and had our rigs set up with whole Blue Fish filets. We ended up with 5 Mako's and keeping the largest two, which were 120 lbs. I don't know if you ever caught a Mako shark? These are one of the nastiest fish I have ever had the pleasure to caught, they broke the water several times and one pealed my Penn 80 down twice! We ended the battle with a 12 gage slug, which is necessary most of the time when you land a Mako. By 5:30 AM it started blowing 20 out of the north east which made it difficult making coffee, since we were on 25' Sea Cat with twin 150 out boards. We pick up and started trolling hoping to pick up another Tuna, but it was getting sloppy with a 66 mile run back to land so we called it a day and headed home to enjoy our caught with our friends and family. When I get the pictures developed I send some if they came out clear.