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From the Flybridge has recently set up informal ties with one of Hawaii's premier sport and game fishing charter consolidators, Sportfishing Hawaii. This company specialises in arranging charters for all kinds of fishing in Hawaiian waters, and they have also established an excellent website that includes the interesting Fish University section.
Sportfish Hawaii and Fish University have some great reading with original articles written just for game fishermen by an experienced angler who lives and fishes in Hawaii - one of the Pacific Ocean's best known blue marlin hot spots. 
Visitors to the Fish U pages on the Sportfish Hawaii website will be impressed by the thought and detail that has gone into writing the articles that are linked below.
Experienced blue marlin anglers from Australia may notice a few subtle differences in terminology and even techniques between how things are done in Hawaii, versus here on the blue marlin coast of northern NSW. You will also see a few differences in techniques discussed on the Fish U pages versus the pages on this website, and/or our own Glen Booth's excellent book "The Complete Guide to Game Fishing".
There are numerous stories and informative articles on the Sportfish Hawaii website and its Fish University pages, all of which make great reading - the links below will take you to a selection of the best.  

FISH UNIVERSITY 101 - The Fish Strikes, Now What?


FISH UNIVERSITY 201 - Setting a lure pattern to troll for marlin


FISH UNIVERSITY 301 - The importance of maintaining terminal tackle


FISH UNIVERSITY - Reviving and releasing billfish
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