LIHUE, Hawaii (AP) ? A 54-year-old fisherman is safe after his 14-foot boat capsized as he was landing a 230-pound tuna in the ocean off Hawaii.
The U.S. Coast Guard rescued Anthony Wichman on Friday after receiving a distress call from his wife.
Wichman was fishing about 10 miles southwest of Port Allen on the island of Kauai (kuh-WEYE’) Friday morning when he hooked the Ahi tuna. Coast Guard Lt. Jessica Mickelson tells Hawaii News Now (http://tinyurl.com/ksqfuaf ) that Wichman was able to use his cellphone to call his wife for help.
The Coast Guard dispatched a helicopter to rescue Wichman. Friends arrived on another boat and were able to right Wichman’s boat. They towed it ? and the fish ? back to port.
Good heavens. I have a 14 ft boat (cheap tinny) and I get nervous taking it to Cypress Gardens launch. I nearly got rolled by a pleasure boat coming by me wide open, too close, yesterday. This is nuts lol.
It actually pulled him underwater (line tangled around him) but he got free.
“Sire, it belongs in truth to the Church of God, in whose name I speak, to endure blows and not to inflict them. But it will also please your Majesty to remember that she is an anvil that has worn out many hammers.”…Theodore Beza
They fish out of anything and everything on Kauai. I fished out of Port Allen there and saw a zodiac being launched that had rod holders all loaded with 80/130 wides.
you start trolling the ledge 100 yards from the dock in Lihue thousand feet of water in 1/2 mile, six thousand in a few miles. The locals swim miles no problem. Beautiful place