Fish Maui

Lili helped us find the perfect Charter! We have been out on many fishing charters in Maui, Kona, Mexico, San Diego and Washington and this one was as good as it gets! After a few e-​mails and phone calls to figure out what we were looking for she set us up with Greg and Kenny on the Hinatea. The crew and the boat were perfect. Even if we had not caught fish on our day out it would have been a great trip — but we managed to pull in plenty. I will not hesitate to use Lili the next time we return to Maui.

Big Mahalo to lili !!! Our fishing excursion booked thru her with UFO Adventures was excellent. A big ty to Captain Mark and Johnny as well. We’ll be baaak

We had the time of our lives on the Hinatea! Lili did a great job of booking our charter, and Capt. Kenny and Jason were the nicest tour guides ever, and very helpful in getting us to the best fishing spots. Our son landed a 40-​lb. wahoo and our daughter caught a beautiful (and delicious!) 15-​lb. snapper. The kids had a great time and those will be the best memories they’ll have for a long time. Would definitely use Fish Maui again for our next fishing charter! :)

Extremely disappointed… A couple of months prior to our trip, and after a lot of research I decided to utilize Lili C for booking our shared fishing charter for my wife and my honeymoon. My first phone call with Lili went really well, and I thought I was on a good track. I fully understood that we were seeking a shared charter during a busy time period. Therefore, I was flexible when I gave our dates and preferred boats, and understood a private charter could bump us if nobody else joined the shared charter. We were initially reserved on a shared charter on the Hinatea for a different day than our request. I gave my payment details and received confirmation email from Lili. A couple of weeks before our trip I received a call from Lili that the Hinatea had booked a private charter and we’d be bumped, but if we could go back to our original requested day we would be CONFIRMED for a shared charter on the Finest Kind as they already had 3 other people requesting a shared charter. Lili reiterated that we would be CONFIRMED not subject to being bumped by a private charter so I thought we were all set.
Then during our wedding rehearsal the day before our wedding, 3-​days prior to when we were supposed to be going fishing, I received a voicemail from Lili cancelling our trip. Once rehearsal was over I called her back, and she stated that if I had read my email I would see that our reservation was cancelled as a private charter was booked over us. I asked how that was possible as we switched to Finest Kind in order to be CONFIRMED and if we had a differing definition of the word confirmed. Lili stated that there was nothing she could do and if we were ever back on Maui to try again.
As you can imagine this left us in a pretty difficult spot. Thankfully once we were on Maui we were able to find a charter through a different booking outfit. While not a full 8-​hours we had fun and enjoyed ourselves.
However, after the experience and the timing of the communication, you can imagine this wasn’t the best of experiences. As well, I have begun to think it may not be coincidental that after my initial booking of our reservation over the phone and provision of payment details, I got a phone call from my credit card company fraud alerting me that my card number was compromised and transactions attempted in multiple states.
Give this outfit a shot if you want something fishy, but I wouldn’t recommend it if you want to go fishing!

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did a terrific job of helping us. We wanted a trip for our 5-​year old twin grandchildren, a boy and a girl. We called her at the last minute during the busiest season (Dec 23) and she found us a perfect trip. Her first suggestion was a four hour trip but then she did some research and found a 2.5 hour trip that was half the price and fit our schedules even better. The kids had a great time. We will use her services every time we visit Maui and we recommend her most highly.

Luckey Strike is fantastic! We booked a 4 hour tour (four of us in our party) and we had the boat to ourselves. Tad was our captain and has been fishing and diving around Maui for 30 years. He is very knowledgeable and knew the best spots to find the fish. Brian was the deckhand who helped us cast and hook our fish throughout the day. I will say that if you are looking to do all the baiting, casting, and hooking the fish then this is not the tour for you. Brian takes care of all that and you do the reeling. This was fine by us as for most of the fish we caught they almost got away except for Brian’s skill and experience to entice them to retake the bait! It was a real rush and we enjoyed the battle of reeling 6 nice big fish in throughout the day.
Luckey Strike is the only charter on Maui that prefers to catch their own live bait prior to going after the big fish. They took us to catch some Mackerel which can be hit or miss but they don’t waste too much time if they aren’t biting. Lucky for us they were biting and we pulled in about 30 mackerel in 20 minutes. A very fun way to start the day — especially since the two women in our party did not want to fish much but this was simple and easy and they got to cast out and reel in some fish.
After that, Tad brought us to one of his favorite spots. They cast out a deep rigger to troll the bottom around 275 feet on light tackle and two more surface rods, heavier tackle. Within 5 minutes of casting out we had hooked a big Mahi. They sit you in the chair and set you up with the rod and you fight him all the way in. There is nothing cooler than seeing a fish jumping out of the water as you fight to reel it in!
All in all we ended up catching 3 mahi (15,12,10 lbs), an Amberjack (18 lbs), a big snapper (20 lbs), and a 35 pound Giant Trevally! We know we were super lucky but we also know we had an awesome captain and deckhand. They really knew what they were doing and where to go. Brian was super helpful, taught us about the tackle, the fish, and more. It was a great experience all the way around and we would recommend them to anyone!