■ Keoni Goo is a true fisherman.
He is willing to go to any lengths to catch a fish, especially if it is during the prestigious Hawaiian International Billfish Tournament (HIBT). That includes fighting a Pacific blue marlin for nearly seven hours, and, in the last hour, painfully hand-feeding the line onto a broken reel.
Keoni, from O‘ahu, took the top honors for the largest fish, a 555-lb marlin, in the 38th Annual HIBT in Kona last month, and his team, the Fun Birds of Aloha, just missed first place by a mere handful of points to the Game fishing Club of South Australia.
For several years, the Fun Birds of Aloha, the Aloha Airlines’ team, had asked Keoni to fish with them, but he was always too busy at…