Maui, Hawaii

Fishing & Travel Destination

Maui, Hawaii’s second largest island is stunningly beautiful, friendly and fun. Enjoy a true tropical paradise with the best shopping, dining, sightseeing, water sports, golf, hiking, swimming, and sport fishing on the islands. Maui is well known for its beautiful scenery. With its crystal clear waters and white sand beaches, winding roads through miles of unspoiled rainforest, green valleys, and stunning vistas of nearby islands Lana’i, Molokai and Molokini, plus the majestic volcano Haleakala, Maui is a true treat for the eyes. But it’s the sporting adventures that are the real treat on Maui.

Maui has some of the best water sports around, including awesome scuba and snorkeling, several surf schools, swimming, windsurfing, sailing, and awesome fishing. Onshore activities include biking, hiking, horseback riding, helicopter tours, and fantastic golf. In the winter, the humpback whale migration offers an opportunity for some of the best whale watching in the world. And no Maui vacation would be complete without going to a luau. With multiple luaus offered nightly on Maui, this is an activity you simply can’t miss. Maui is blessed with beautiful weather year round, making any time of year the perfect time for a fishing vacation. Spring and fall are the least crowded times, with the Christmas holidays being the busiest, which makes getting a fishing charter more challenging, so be sure to book in advance.

Quite simply, Maui is a fantastic location for a charter fishing vacation. Maui has 25 fishing charters, with different options for shorter trips, private charters or share trips, making it affordable for anyone to go fishing on Maui. Deep water sport fishing for big game fish is the most common type of fishing in Maui. Maui also offers bottom fishing trips for a more affordable fishing option. Bottom fishing on Maui in shallow water is for small local reef fish including trevally, grey snapper, goat fish, trigger fish, ta’ape, nabeta, ehu, amberjack, blue-line snapper, shark and barracuda. The fish are generally small; less than 25 pounds, but the action is great. You are almost guaranteed to catch something when bottom fishing off Maui and it’s a great activity for the whole family. There is no reef or wreck fishing in Maui. The most common big game fish caught in Maui’s waters are Pacific blue marlin, striped marlin, Pacific short-nosed spearfish, Ono (wahoo), yellowfin tuna (ahi), big eye tuna, skipjack, and mahi mahi (dorado, dolphin fish). Fishing in Maui is great year round for all species with the best bill fishing occurring from February to September. Monster Pacific blue marlin over 1000 pounds have been caught throughout the year on Maui. 


Maui is a very popular tourist destination, and it is also a popular spot for fishing tournaments. During these tournaments, finding an available charter can be difficult, so be sure to check the calendar and book in advance when planning a Maui fishing vacation.

Maui is a great place for a fishing vacation. Great weather and awesome fishing year round, breathtaking scenery, friendly people, surfing, sailing, hiking, biking, great golf, sparkling waters and gorgeous beaches: Maui has it all. With all this, and some of the best fishing in the world, its no wonder the locals call Maui “No Ka Oi”: The Best.