Man what a day! 30 minutes after putting lines in the water we landed a 250-275lb blue Marlin! Captain Chris and First Mate Jim were awesome! Very skilled and made the whole trip worthwhile! The boat was in excellent shape and they had great equipment! We landed 8 mahi, a grouper, and an amber jack! At the end of the day we hooked another blue Marlin and brought him in! He was 400+ and 140” long! We will definitely be booking with Captain Chris again!

What a way to start your day, hearing the drag start screaming on a reel and Jim yelling “FISH ON”, before 8 am will jolt a man awake after a 4:30 am alarm call!

Nevin Honeycutt: How’d you know that was a wahoo before you ever saw the fish?

Jim (First Mate): Because there’s nothing else out here that’s gonna run that bait down as fast as we are trolling.

We landed two wahoo before 8:00 in the morning and then there was a little lull while we re-rigged and waited on the bite. Jim said, “If we can manage two wahoo an hour today, you all are going to have a pile of fish in that box at the end of the day.” That’s exactly what Captain Chris and First Mate Jim managed to do for us. I was told that wahoo usually come in singles, which kind of held true, but there were times that we had 2 or 3 on the deck at the same time, because we had Jim so busy gaffing, unhooking and re-rigging that he couldn’t get them on ice fast enough to clear the deck. Captain Chris would come down and rig ballyhoo just to help get everything caught up.

Chris and Jim provided a day to remember aboard the Predator! Jim told me that he had fished in Hawaii for a couple of years and the Hawaiian people call wahoo, Ono, which translates to the word excellent. Well I’m here to tell you, they hit the nail on the head! I made grilled wahoo steaks and served them over linguine in a cajun alfredo sauce and even the folks in our group that said they wouldn’t eat fish, chowed down on the wahoo. Jim texted a buddy in Hawaii and got me the recipe for Ono ceviche and I’m here to tell ya, it was like something out of Michelin Star Restaurant.

I’ve been thinking of anything to say that could be negative about the trip, and I honestly can’t come up with anything bad to say. We were first time guests, so we had a lot of questions before the trip that got answered promptly. Capt Chris and Mate Bobby were stellar! We put a decent amount of fish on the boat for everyone to take home plenty, and to top off the day as we were reeling in the last few rods we had a sailfish hit and brought it up to the boat to officially get our citation catch of the day! Couldn’t recommend this trip more to anyone who is looking for a great day on the water! Thank you for some great memories!

Another fantastic trip with Capt Chris on the Predator. Caught our limit of wahoo and also caught sailfish, barracuda and albacore.  Can’t wait until the next trip.  We have fished many times with Capt Chris and have never been disapointed.  We won’t fish with any other Capt.

Beyond excellent day with these two guys.  Chris put us on the fish and Jim worked his ass off on the boat.  Great day of tight lines.  I highly recommend this boat. Will fish with the Predator again.