Lahaina Seawatch
Jul 01, 2020
3 minutes
by Donnell Tate
The HINATEA was on a holoholo fishing trip when six-year-old Samuelu Cole captured a 150-lb blue marlin. He was fishing with his dad, Capt. Chris Cole, and deckmen Dyllon Lehmann and Tony Nunez.
They were headed out toward Kaho‘olawe to fish the SO-buoy off the southwest corner of the shoals. About halfway there, they stopped to fish another buoy sitting in about 200 fathoms of water. They started catching mahimahi, and Samuelu landed one that weighed about 20 lbs. He wanted a marlin, though.
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