It was an early rise this morning as LT, Anna and I got up at 3:45am. Anna wanted to drive us to Lahaina so she could keep the car. LT and I had a reservation with Start Me Up fishing charter. Check in was at 5:15am, so we needed to get on the road as it took about an hour to get to Lahaina. 
We shoved off at 5:30am and were prepared to catch the daily limit. The trip was an eight hour charter. Our captain was Steve and first mate was Jamison. We all were jazzed up to get a couple of ono or tunas tear up some hooks, but nothing for the first five hours. 
Then the mid rigger snapped and “Fish On”! LT quickly made his way to the chair and the pole was handed to him. He started cranking away it wasn’t too much longer before we started to see some color. LT managed to reel in a wahoo of around 15 pounds. As he got it to the boat, Jamison grabbed the gaff, but the wahoo shook his head and managed to get the hook out. Jamison was unfortunately not quick enough with gaff to bring him to the boat. You could hear the air come out of all of us.
The rest of the day was exactly like the first five hours – nothing.
Throughout the day, we did however have great conversation with the boat crew. We learned quite a bit more about the islands. I managed to see quite a bit of pilot whales and got far more sun than expected.
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