Holy Cow! Big Tuna!
Holy Cow! This was the term used by Monte Priest after landing this big cow tuna! Our Son Monte and his family are visiting us from Killeen, Texas. Monte is a 20 year Firefighter/Paramedic in the Central Texas area. Along with his wife Nicole and Son Miles they have been to the Big Island several times and spent many hours aboard Fire Hatt trying for the trophy Marlin….or anything. In all his years of fishing in Kona Hawaii and in Southern California we had not been able to get him his Marlin. Until today! With Captain Chuck Wilson at the helm, we left Honokohau Harbor at about 6:30 AM and around seven o’clock we had a grand explosion on the short rigger….we are Hooked Up! Monte fought the Ahi for about 18 minutes and had the beauty in the box! We had just finished putting the lines back out and were still hosing the blood off the deck when the short corner line started screaming. We are Hooked Up again! Monte was back in the chair, still worn out from fighting the first fish. Captain Joe Shumaker leadered the Blue Marlin after another impressive short fight. Monte was out of the chair and Tagged his first Marlin. Captain Chuck commented “When you want a fish so badly for someone, that is the hardest fish to catch.” Congratulations Monte! #FireHattSportfishing #BestCharterFishingInKonaHawaii #MarlinFishingInKonaHawaii #AFTCOProTeam
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