Hawaii charter fishing - advice please

[redlite]

Soooooooo, when you wake up as you are 9 hours behind us, tell the new bride to pack up for a quick overnighter to Oahu, hit Pearl Harbor, run up and down Diamond head, and have dinner at Hai's Steak House, and call your travel agent and tell them to get you set up to Kuai for friday. You would be cheating you both to fly half way around the world and not go to paradise.
Either way, enjoy your trip.

[Big Game]

Definitely do the helicopter tour if you can. Unbelievable views.

I've fished out of Kona before, and as Mr Sandman stated, you can fish for marlin just a few miles from the shore. Not sure about the other islands, but it gets DEEP fast off the coast of the Big Island.