Bruce Gothard caught this twenty-eight pound Yellowfin Tuna was caught about 4 miles offshore of Kailua-Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii. It was caught using a Mirrolure BigGame Deep Diving Lure with a Shakespeare 61/2' rod and a Penn 4/0 with 40# pink Ande line while trolling. He fishes from an aquaterra Prism 14' kayak.

NOTE: There's a good number of varied species of fish caught from kayaks in Hawaii these days, especially from the Big Island. After speaking with a few who kayak fishing there, I was told that near shore the depth drops off dramatically and pelagic and other game fish are not far offshore. Talk about a kayak fishing mecca.