Sportfish Hawaii - Feature Skipper
Pamela – Kona, Big Island

Largest fish to Date: 1143, 1060, 987, 942, and 830 pounds, plus many in the 700 and 800 pound range.  Yellowfin tunas well over 200 pounds, and literally thousands over a hundred pounds.

Amenities: Tuna tower, open rear bulkhead, 2 helms, auto-pilot, comfortable restroom facilities, GPS and plotter, inverter, CD/Stereo, TV/VCR. 

Captain Peter Hoogs

This Bertram is wide open and spacious with no rear wall.  The mufflers have also been replaced with quiet fiberglass models that make for a very comfortable and quiet ride.  Great for larger groups.

Fishing Gear: Full complement of Penn International 130 lb. 2-speed reels on Penn International II rods.  Rupp Riggers, tuna tubes, transom door, Murray Bros. Fighting chair, live bait well located under deck, downrigger, “green stick” capability, Furuno sounder good up to 1500 fathoms.  Tackle and leader rigs all neatly organized below.  The boat is laid out to fish.     

*****Also has a complete line of 30, 50 and 80 pound gear that can be used upon request.  It is not always carried on board, so you are interested in lighter tackle, please request it ahead of time.   

Experienced, Relaxed and Confident.  Captain Peter Hoogs is one of the originals from the pioneering days of Kona, and he still loves to fish as much as the day he first started.  He has seen big fish come and big fish go, but he remains as competitive and enthusiastic as he always has. 

It all began when, as a child, Peter used to watch the boats come and go at the harbor and wanted to be a charter captain himself one day.  As an avid angler in his early 20’s he recalls his first Marlin and Ahi.  The Ahi was special for him, as it was 200 pounds, caught along the Waianae Coast on the Island of Oahu.    

As his career developed, Peter always maintained the goal of becoming a Kona charter captain, and most things he did were oriented toward that goal.  He moved to Kwajelein Atoll in the South Pacific and ran a couple of fishing boats for awhile with none other than the late Cornelius Choy, skipper of the famed Coreene C that caught the largest Marlin ever on rod and reel (1,805 pounds, caught off Oahu).  Afterwards, he became a commercial diver on Kwajelein, performing missile recoveries and putting together enough capital for the down payment on his first boat.    

Tournament performer.  Starting with the very first Hawaiian International Billfish Tournament (HIBT), where Peter was an angler with the third place team, Peter has participated in and performed well in tournaments over the years.  He has also won the HIBT and placed second in it, won the HIBT Pro-Am, won the Big Island Invitational, the Firecracker Open, the Skins, and has placed second and third in each of these more than once.  He was also the Pacific Ocean Research Foundations (PORF) top tagging boat for 1996.  He also won the AFTCO Tagging award for the Pacific for 2004 and 2005.

Loves to dive and commercial fish, also.  In the winter, during certain periods where the visitor counts are lower, Peter and his sons Toby and Teddy like to take their other boat, the Pamela II, out to the seamounts and weather buoys for some commercial fishing trips.  In addition to taking some fish to the market, these 5 to 10 day trips are used to hone their skills with Ahi, mostly Bigeye, and to develop and refine techniques that can be used for their charters.

At the helm, Peter uses two GPS systems, one with a plotter.  There is also a Furuno depth sounder that gives accurate readings as deep as 1,500 fathoms (9000 feet).  The bridge is spacious and functional, nicely under cover and out of the sun.  Just looking at the helm chair gives an angler goose bumps thinking about all the hours of conversation and fish pursuit that has taken place over the years.