How's it brah. Just wanted to say how much I enjoy watching your fishing and hunting videos. I was born and raised on Oahu, growing up at our beach house right at Ehukai Beach/Pipeline in 1960. I've been enjoying surfing, Pipeline in particular and other incredible waves on the outer islands, since I was a kid. I grew up diving and spearfishing and Deep sea fishing, and my life has revolved around the ocean in Hawaii. Starting in 1974, I started putting my 13 ft Boston whaler on young brothers to the big island and spending my summer's in kona fishing and, going down to milolii and camping and fishing with my boat from kapua etc, having a blast!!! A fisherman named Raymond Kuahiwa (?) Raddon fv Ho'olako, befriended me, beginning a long friendship, and years later Wili Kaupiko. The list of awesome Hawaiian fishermen and captains who became great friends is long, of course many from kona/Honokohau! So my dream was to live in kona full time commercial fishing and to get my own boat capable of fishing anywhere off the big island, and doing 4-5 days and nights long trips . I had the 9th Force 30 out of the mold custom built to my specs in Hilo in the early 80's, and then I set out on the adventure of my life making my dream come true!!! I rarely fished kona commercial, rather doing south point trips, and later, far beyond, fishing all around the island. I was different from most commercial guys, because I did a lot of trolling, running 4 or 5 poles and 2 handlines and I had outriggers. Back then when commercial guys did trolling, it was usually just two bent but rods off thier raddons, as most concentrated on ahi, and did palu ahi/ Maki dog, and of course ika shibi fishing. I was fishing with a small group of full time commercial guys, like Zig Ching, Billy Wakefield, and many others, and I loved fishing off Hilo and Puna, where one morning after dropping off my fish at Hilo suisan auction, a guy named Nixon Pacheko invited me to have breakfast with him, beginning a long friendship with someone who was a real "tiger" amongst the Hilo and Pohoiki guys. I'm a born and raised local haole, but I grew up with lots of Hawaiian families so I'm just like most of us who grew up in Hawaii. But Hilo, and Pohoiki back then especially, was the wild west!!! Guys would literally shoot guns at each others boats off Pohoiki at night, because of people parking too close, or behind your boat a ways, stealing your palu trail. Later, guys would launch from Pohoiki around 3am, and sneak out running no lights and throw thier chute behind guys fishing all night paluing and catch the early morning rush off thier palu. They called them ninjas!!! These guys were not liked!!!! Anyway you probably have heard how wild it was years ago. At first I chose not to fish in the pack off Pohoiki, especially with me being haole and in a brand new flybridge Force 30!! Lot's of jealousy and bad vibes unfortunately back then. So I'd go off places near kalapana and have amazing fishing, later, after telling Nixon exactly where I was fishing, he told me about "the farm" off kehena, and Maki man pt. etc, and couldn't believe I chose such good spots being new fishing that whole side. I told him, nobody trolls commercialy!!!?? And how I loved trolling, and I would troll all the time over the years off that side with absolutely no boats anywhere in the day. I figured since the ika shibi fishing was so good on that side, that trolling would be just banging!!!! Well, it was epic!!! Amazing, how no one else would do it, but most guys fished ika shibi at night and went in and got thier ahi to suisan by 7:30am before auction. Well, I could write a book on so many incredible fishing trips and everything we see and do spending years at sea, as you know. I have spent 40+ years commercial fishing in Hawaii, from the Big island all the way up to midway island in the leeward isles. I used to bottom fish in the leeward isles back before they made it a marine sanctuary, as I was a permit holder. It's no secret now, so I can say after Mike Hines and the Leslie family fv Hanalike were fishing cross seamount way outside kona for years, I decided to start doing it!! I think back then I may have been one of the first guys to take small 30' boats outside to fish. I knew better than to go out alone, so the first trip, I asked Billy Wakefield to bring his 30 ft raddon Jaime E. and we went together. Back then we had Loran, but the old Sat Nav had come out and I had it, though nothing like today's GPS, it worked. Shortly after, I told Wakefield I wanted to fish the weather buoys!!! I'll never forget going to buoy 2, 179 NM sw of kona that first trip w/ sat nav, which sometimes has an hour or more between sat fixes, so I timed it to arrive at night hopping to see the strobe light on the buoy from a distance!! Well, we did, and the first drift by it was just wide open wit darums and 100+ big eyes and later big yellows!!!! Plugged our boats!!! The rest is history !!!! Guys like My friend Bruce Fukuda, from Hilo, and Joe Mark's of kona (a legend and great friend) Al Duart fv Midnight, a 27 force, then a custom aluminum boat etc.etc., I'm truly blessed to have been a part of such a great time to test myself while young and strong !!! All the famous Hawaiian fishing families in Kona, like the Llannes(?) Family. Kenny was a really close friend and thier famous "locknut" lure!!!! Marlin Parker and knowing George, his father was just a privilege!!! My cousin was captain Peter Hoogs (rip) fv Pamela, who was a legend as well, as kona is a world famous fishing location!!! And of course hunting!!!! The Llannes family, and thier kids were all hunters, and I know you're an avid hunter as well. I have been blessed to hunt throughout Hawaii, as well as the us mainland states and Alaska, New Zealand and Africa!! Yeah man, just wanted to say thanks bruddah, for bringing me back to decades of awesome memories spent doing what I love so very much!! Your videos are great brah, I'm 64 years old now, and living back on Oahu, But just wanted to let you know how your youtube ch. etc. have brought me a lot of enjoyment of what we share in common!!!! Aloha, D.L.
@@DonaldLibbey mahalos!! Thank you for the response! And definitely can relate to all of those stories! Definitely enjoy talking fishing! And hearing those stories from the past bring back a lot of memories also!🤙🏽🤣 good and bad thank you watching and I hope to put out another video soon just been son busy with life🤙🏽 mahalos!
🤙🏽👍🏽 thank you and the engine cover are exactly that they are in use engine covers there pretty sweet I love um! Mainly they keep the birds from making the nest in my intake😂🤣
Always like when I see the notification that you have a new vid out. Garrick and Yessah Lures ALWAYS make for an enjoyable watch. As always, mahalo for sharing you adventures with us. Take care and can't wait for the next one
Thanks Ken!!! I’m going to try work on a hunting vid next as I want to try the hunting vid route again and maybe some shorter cooking videos maybe🤷🏽♂️ still debating. But always good to hear from ya! Thanks for the comment🤙🏽👍🏽
Watching from st.kitts 🇰🇳Caribbean island.....as a young fisherman learned many ideas an catching tuna or any other fish i mite run into....bless up bro 💯👍nice content had to subscribe after watching........
Nice!!! Glad you enjoyed it!!! And yes as a fisherman I feel you should always be willing to try new things! Sometime fish will bite the n some ideas that you would never imagine! Thank you for the subscribe and thanks for the feedback! May need to make it to the Caribbean some day🤙🏽
@@billwood2747 in this video I am using a reel made by a guy here on the big island he has a few new proto types coming out soon also and I also use electramates
@@GarrickYamamoto Yea I know I have a pair. Had it for about 2 years now. A white one. But when they came out with the camo Ive been wanting that one for a while now. So I might have to use your code for that one soon 🤣
Thank you!!! It’s an ongoing process but I’m glad you enjoyed the show! I will give a look at your channel too always like watching others!!! And thanks for the subscribe 🤙🏽
@@timothybannan796 really depends on what the plan of the trip will be in a commercial trip like the one on this video I’m going out with well over what I assume is close to 2k lbs
Is there 2 different types of thresher? I don’t know to tell the difference between the two types all I know it that it was big and it had a super long tail😂 didn’t want to get any closer as I had some bad experiences with thresher sharks and being solo not quite worth getting hurt over
@Garrick's Adventure's yeah the big eye thresher is the all grey one with the bigger eye, the other one is blue top with a more silver belly. The big eye thresher is the one i usually catch on the east side
@@etothelij haha didn’t get the greatest look at it and it was too dark to see it with the GoPro I had running😂 all I knew is it was thresher and I didn’t want nothing to do with it😂🤣
Hey brah. I stay oahu and would love talk story about what you look for. Uncles tell me I can’t fish here like you do there. I would love to hear your thoughts. Tite lines brah
Ohhh yeah that’s why I cut that leader way way long had some bad experiences with thresher sharks and know better than to mess with that tail😂 as soon as I seen him down there I was like I need to cut this line before he does some crazy stuff🤣
Sure does!!! I actually just had another absolute screamer and I was thinking same thing again thresher! But I fought it all the same and when it got up! 200plus ahi!!! Yellow fin tuna! So sometimes it pays to play itnout and see what happens!🤙🏽
357 pistol but I use a 38spl in the pistol both work but the pistol you got back up shot where a bang stick you do not but any way to put the fish out quickly so it’s not dangerous is great for safty
How's it brah. Just wanted to say how much I enjoy watching your fishing and hunting videos.
I was born and raised on Oahu, growing up at our beach house right at Ehukai Beach/Pipeline in 1960. I've been enjoying surfing, Pipeline in particular and other incredible waves on the outer islands, since I was a kid. I grew up diving and spearfishing and Deep sea fishing, and my life has revolved around the ocean in Hawaii.
Starting in 1974, I started putting my 13 ft Boston whaler on young brothers to the big island and spending my summer's in kona fishing and, going down to milolii and camping and fishing with my boat from kapua etc, having a blast!!! A fisherman named Raymond Kuahiwa (?) Raddon fv Ho'olako, befriended me, beginning a long friendship, and years later Wili Kaupiko. The list of awesome Hawaiian fishermen and captains who became great friends is long, of course many from kona/Honokohau!
So my dream was to live in kona full time commercial fishing and to get my own boat capable of fishing anywhere off the big island, and doing 4-5 days and nights long trips . I had the 9th Force 30 out of the mold custom built to my specs in Hilo in the early 80's, and then I set out on the adventure of my life making my dream come true!!! I rarely fished kona commercial, rather doing south point trips, and later, far beyond, fishing all around the island. I was different from most commercial guys, because I did a lot of trolling, running 4 or 5 poles and 2 handlines and I had outriggers. Back then when commercial guys did trolling, it was usually just two bent but rods off thier raddons, as most concentrated on ahi, and did palu ahi/ Maki dog, and of course ika shibi fishing. I was fishing with a small group of full time commercial guys, like Zig Ching, Billy Wakefield, and many others, and I loved fishing off Hilo and Puna, where one morning after dropping off my fish at Hilo suisan auction, a guy named Nixon Pacheko invited me to have breakfast with him, beginning a long friendship with someone who was a real "tiger" amongst the Hilo and Pohoiki guys. I'm a born and raised local haole, but I grew up with lots of Hawaiian families so I'm just like most of us who grew up in Hawaii. But Hilo, and Pohoiki back then especially, was the wild west!!! Guys would literally shoot guns at each others boats off Pohoiki at night, because of people parking too close, or behind your boat a ways, stealing your palu trail. Later, guys would launch from Pohoiki around 3am, and sneak out running no lights and throw thier chute behind guys fishing all night paluing and catch the early morning rush off thier palu. They called them ninjas!!! These guys were not liked!!!! Anyway you probably have heard how wild it was years ago. At first I chose not to fish in the pack off Pohoiki, especially with me being haole and in a brand new flybridge Force 30!! Lot's of jealousy and bad vibes unfortunately back then. So I'd go off places near kalapana and have amazing fishing, later, after telling Nixon exactly where I was fishing, he told me about "the farm" off kehena, and Maki man pt. etc, and couldn't believe I chose such good spots being new fishing that whole side. I told him, nobody trolls commercialy!!!?? And how I loved trolling, and I would troll all the time over the years off that side with absolutely no boats anywhere in the day. I figured since the ika shibi fishing was so good on that side, that trolling would be just banging!!!! Well, it was epic!!! Amazing, how no one else would do it, but most guys fished ika shibi at night and went in and got thier ahi to suisan by 7:30am before auction.
Well, I could write a book on so many incredible fishing trips and everything we see and do spending years at sea, as you know. I have spent 40+ years commercial fishing in Hawaii, from the Big island all the way up to midway island in the leeward isles. I used to bottom fish in the leeward isles back before they made it a marine sanctuary, as I was a permit holder. It's no secret now, so I can say after Mike Hines and the Leslie family fv Hanalike were fishing cross seamount way outside kona for years, I decided to start doing it!! I think back then I may have been one of the first guys to take small 30' boats outside to fish. I knew better than to go out alone, so the first trip, I asked Billy Wakefield to bring his 30 ft raddon Jaime E. and we went together. Back then we had Loran, but the old Sat Nav had come out and I had it, though nothing like today's GPS, it worked. Shortly after, I told Wakefield I wanted to fish the weather buoys!!! I'll never forget going to buoy 2, 179 NM sw of kona that first trip w/ sat nav, which sometimes has an hour or more between sat fixes, so I timed it to arrive at night hopping to see the strobe light on the buoy from a distance!! Well, we did, and the first drift by it was just wide open wit darums and 100+ big eyes and later big yellows!!!! Plugged our boats!!! The rest is history !!!! Guys like My friend Bruce Fukuda, from Hilo, and Joe Mark's of kona (a legend and great friend) Al Duart fv Midnight, a 27 force, then a custom aluminum boat etc.etc., I'm truly blessed to have been a part of such a great time to test myself while young and strong !!! All the famous Hawaiian fishing families in Kona, like the Llannes(?) Family. Kenny was a really close friend and thier famous "locknut" lure!!!! Marlin Parker and knowing George, his father was just a privilege!!! My cousin was captain Peter Hoogs (rip) fv Pamela, who was a legend as well, as kona is a world famous fishing location!!! And of course hunting!!!! The Llannes family, and thier kids were all hunters, and I know you're an avid hunter as well. I have been blessed to hunt throughout Hawaii, as well as the us mainland states and Alaska, New Zealand and Africa!! Yeah man, just wanted to say thanks bruddah, for bringing me back to decades of awesome memories spent doing what I love so very much!! Your videos are great brah, I'm 64 years old now, and living back on Oahu, But just wanted to let you know how your youtube ch. etc. have brought me a lot of enjoyment of what we share in common!!!!
Aloha,
D.L.
@@DonaldLibbey mahalos!! Thank you for the response! And definitely can relate to all of those stories! Definitely enjoy talking fishing! And hearing those stories from the past bring back a lot of memories also!🤙🏽🤣 good and bad thank you watching and I hope to put out another video soon just been son busy with life🤙🏽 mahalos!
@@GarrickYamamoto Geevum bruddah Garrick!
Aloha, D.L
Awesome to see your lures out there catching fish. Thanks for the great videos
Yes I’m glad they work also🤣🤙🏽 mahalos for the feedback! And glad you enjoyed the show
Great action packed yellowfin adventures. Good going, wun Japanese on fiya. Keep dat pole going Kom Ban Wa!! Awl Rite!
Yessah!!! Thank you and glad you enjoyed it🤙🏽🎣🎣🎣🎣
Mean 1 man trip great video nice paint job on the motor covers
🤙🏽👍🏽 thank you and the engine cover are exactly that they are in use engine covers there pretty sweet I love um! Mainly they keep the birds from making the nest in my intake😂🤣
Braaaaaahhhh!! Unreal action as always 🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽 nice going Garrick steady preshhhhhaaaahh
Yessah!!! You kno dakine🤣🤙🏽
Always like when I see the notification that you have a new vid out. Garrick and Yessah Lures ALWAYS make for an enjoyable watch. As always, mahalo for sharing you adventures with us. Take care and can't wait for the next one
Thanks Ken!!! I’m going to try work on a hunting vid next as I want to try the hunting vid route again and maybe some shorter cooking videos maybe🤷🏽♂️ still debating. But always good to hear from ya! Thanks for the comment🤙🏽👍🏽
@@GarrickYamamoto Cooking vids are always nice. Always looking for new recipes. Yes on the hunting vids also
Automatic fishing!
Love your vids, keep ‘em coming!
Aloha
Yessah!!🤙🏽👍🏽🤩 mahalos!!! And glad you enjoy watching them🙏🏽 and mahalos for the comment
Another action packed video!! Way to go Garrick can’t wait for the next one🤙
Thanks Dre!!🤙🏽👍🏽
@@GarrickYamamoto buy in
Pounded 'em and then some! Awesome catch bro! Thanks for sharing.
Cheee!!! Mahalos!! Yes was a good day🎣🎣🎣🎣🤙🏽
Auuurite braddah Garrick! Good action!
Mahalos!!! And thanks for the feedback kam🤙🏽👍🏽
Yessahh blessahh mah bradah💪🤙
Ohh yes always blessed!!!🤙🏽👍🏽🤩 thank you
Watching from st.kitts 🇰🇳Caribbean island.....as a young fisherman learned many ideas an catching tuna or any other fish i mite run into....bless up bro 💯👍nice content had to subscribe after watching........
Nice!!! Glad you enjoyed it!!! And yes as a fisherman I feel you should always be willing to try new things! Sometime fish will bite the n some ideas that you would never imagine! Thank you for the subscribe and thanks for the feedback! May need to make it to the Caribbean some day🤙🏽
Thats sick 🤙🏼 will you do another tournament this year?
I don’t know if I will yet maybe umekes tournament but my hunting business has been doing well so I have been busy
@@GarrickYamamoto nice! The go for broke tournament in milolii is coming up in a few weeks!
@@joeditz48 sweet you entered?
@@GarrickYamamoto absolutely! We won the biggest ono and aku last year
@@joeditz48 Yessah!!! Good luck again this year!!!! Buss um up!!!🎣🎣🎣
Nice load Garrick!🤙
Mahalos!!!!🤙🏽👍🏽
Very cool, what electric reels are you running?
@@billwood2747 in this video I am using a reel made by a guy here on the big island he has a few new proto types coming out soon also and I also use electramates
Hooo crosskix sponsored!!! Cheeee! Getting up dea! Yessah!!
Yessah!!!😂👍🏽🤙🏽 give it a try they good shoes!!!
@@GarrickYamamoto Yea I know I have a pair. Had it for about 2 years now. A white one. But when they came out with the camo Ive been wanting that one for a while now. So I might have to use your code for that one soon 🤣
Yesssah mean action. Happy new year 🤙
Yessah mahalos!!!🤙🏽👍🏽 and same to you! Happy New Years!!! Get those Yessah lures pictures!!😂🤙🏽
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Beautiful work bra!
Thank you!! Appreciate it! 🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽
Great show
So glad you enjoyed this episode! Stay tuned 🤙🏽👍🏽 and thanks for the comment!
Good job bradda🤙🏽 I saw you had a hose pushing water over the side..is tgst something you do to help the action ?
It’s a bilge pump in the live bait well to keep the fresh water circulating and to keep the live bait healthy
Howzit my friend. What kine boat are you running now
@@timothybannan796 I am now fishing on a mid pac but still fish other boats once in a while🤣
Great video and great fish! I just subscribed….I started my own TH-cam fishing channel a couple of months ago. Keep up the good work!
Thank you!!! It’s an ongoing process but I’m glad you enjoyed the show! I will give a look at your channel too always like watching others!!! And thanks for the subscribe 🤙🏽
How much ice do you take on a trip
@@timothybannan796 really depends on what the plan of the trip will be in a commercial trip like the one on this video I’m going out with well over what I assume is close to 2k lbs
Howzit Garrick, I noticed you have your motors covered with the vents cut open. Is that some kind of
wrap?
These are in use engine covers they are neoprene covers and have vents by the intakes so you can use them while your engines are running 🤙🏽👍🏽
How deep? What kind of reels are the gold ones?
The reels are shimano but the ones in these videos have electric reels that are made by a guy here in hawaii we also use electamates
Thank you! And thank you for the content
How far is the bouy from port?
Depends which bouy your heading too🤣🤙🏽
Where can i get those long hand gaffs?
I pick them up a j hara in Curtis town
@@GarrickYamamoto thanks
Was it a big eye thresher or a blue?
Is there 2 different types of thresher? I don’t know to tell the difference between the two types all I know it that it was big and it had a super long tail😂 didn’t want to get any closer as I had some bad experiences with thresher sharks and being solo not quite worth getting hurt over
@Garrick's Adventure's yeah the big eye thresher is the all grey one with the bigger eye, the other one is blue top with a more silver belly. The big eye thresher is the one i usually catch on the east side
@@etothelij haha didn’t get the greatest look at it and it was too dark to see it with the GoPro I had running😂 all I knew is it was thresher and I didn’t want nothing to do with it😂🤣
Yessah!!
How fast you trolling? Looks like 10/12 knots?
Depends on what I’m targeting anywhere from 7-15kts
Hey brah. I stay oahu and would love talk story about what you look for. Uncles tell me I can’t fish here like you do there. I would love to hear your thoughts. Tite lines brah
I’m pretty sure that all these styles would work in Oahu😂👍🏽 anywhere get fish I’m sure it works you should definitely give it a go
How fast you going when you’re dangling?
@@titedrag9463 all depends but average 4-5kts
Lucky that thresher didn’t slap you silly with his tail ;)
Ohhh yeah that’s why I cut that leader way way long had some bad experiences with thresher sharks and know better than to mess with that tail😂 as soon as I seen him down there I was like I need to cut this line before he does some crazy stuff🤣
@@GarrickYamamoto better safe than sorry, good call! :)
Onolicious
Sooooo goood😂🤙🏽👍🏽
150 fathom runs = thresher. heart breakers.
Sure does!!! I actually just had another absolute screamer and I was thinking same thing again thresher! But I fought it all the same and when it got up! 200plus ahi!!! Yellow fin tuna! So sometimes it pays to play itnout and see what happens!🤙🏽
😍😘
Ahi homicide!
Nom nom! 😂🤙🏽👍🏽 can’t get enough tuna! 🍣
Stay humble, pound um but don't teach the world everything. That's what I was taught as a commercial fisherman . To each there own I guess.
Yeah I hear ya I don’t teach everyone everything that’s for sure always more to learn everyday
maaakin benndin taxxin
Yessah!!🤙🏽🤙🏽😂
What caliber is your pistol? Any advantage using it vs a bangstick?
357 pistol but I use a 38spl in the pistol both work but the pistol you got back up shot where a bang stick you do not but any way to put the fish out quickly so it’s not dangerous is great for safty