Sorry for being off-line for a while but it has been a real hectic month of October and I got way behind in posting reports. We closed out the 2006 Canyon Season with 16 canyon trips in October between the two boats and some great fishing including limits of yellwfin, swords and big-eyes. Below are some of the October reports and pictures. All our reports and photos can be found at
www.canyonrunner.com. There are still some fish out there and maybe some nice weather this week so good luck to anyone still headed out.
Capt Mark DeCabia and Capt Phil Dulanie did a quick turn around and had the Damien Romeo Charter out on Oct 16-17. They went right were they left off at the East Elbow and went straight to the chunk amongst the draggers, as the second rod was being let out it was ripped out of Mark's hands. For the next hour the boys put 6 yellowfin and 5 longfin in the boat. As the weather cooperated tonight, they decided to put it on the drift and put a few more yellowfin and longfin in the boat before midnight with one of the longfin pushing a little over 70 pounds. With plenty of tuna in the boat, the boys then decided to make a drift in the deep for a swordfish and it payed off but, came up short. They caught two swords before unfortunately too short to keep. At first light the bite started again as it has for the past few days and put a few more in the boat to top off the boxes.
Capt Phil Dulanie and Capt Mark DeCabia took the Dave Kirk Charter out on Oct 15-16 and headed right for the draggers up on the east elbow in the Hudson, upon arriving hearing there was a good troll bite they opted to troll around the draggers and put 3 yellows and 3 Longfin in the boat before sun down. The fish ate Bigeye clones, Canyon Runner Green Machine spreader bars and Naked ballyhoo. Due to the crowd, the decided to run 5 miles east of 100 square where they caught them the previous nights. Once the anchor came tight, they had there first shot of fish come through the slick and put 5 longfin in the boat. Over the next hour another shot of yellowfin came though and went 3 for 4 on 60 to 80lbers. At 9pm the tide swung around and lines were screamin to the bow with 24 oz of weight, opting not to fight the conditions they put it on the drift but did not get any more bites for the rest of the night. With a weary crew they headed for the barn at first light.
Capt. Phil Dulanie and Mark DeCabia took the Jeff Yapalater and John Collins charter out on the Canyon Runner Friday to Saturday and looking at the water temperature charters decided to head to the water between the Hudson and Dip. The got there early enought to put out the trolling rods and went 3 for 3 and 2 for 2 on nice longfin that ate Canyon Runner Squid Bars and Melton Cherry Jets and zuchini tuna clones. They decided to set up just on the edge on the hook and they immediately got the fish going on the chunk. They picked all night and put 12 yellowfin and 5 more longfin in the boat and released 2 yellowfin. The fish were eating live squid and fresh dead squid on circle hooks. They left to come home as soon as the sun came up.
Capt. Mark DeBlasio took the Rob Bertag charter out on the Hooked- Up II Monday to Tuesday and ran all the way down to the Wilmington Canyon looking for the water we had been fishing in for the last month. They found it late and anchored in 610 feet of 71 degree water. They very quickly put 7 nice yellowifn in the boat on live squid and 60 flouro shortly after arriving. Then they had the first huge run-off of the night when a big-eye grabbed a squid on 60 flouro. They fought that first big-eye for 30 minutes and put it in the boat it was 160 pounds gutted. The second big-eye came an hour later and quickly was put in the boat as it was tailed wrapped. It weighed 161 pounds gutted. They got one more yellowfin in the morning on the chunk.
Capt. Mark DeCabia took the Jaime Sawashi charter out on the Canyon Runner Monday to Tuesday and ran all the way down to the Wilmington Canyon looking for the water we had been fishing in for the last month. They found it late in the Wilmington. They anchored in 640 feet of 71 degree water after getting called in by Mark on the Hooked Up II. They caught 4 nice yellowfin on live squid and 60 flouro shortly after arriving and then had 2 huge run-offs when big-eyes came into the slick. They fought the first for 30 minutes before it chafed through 10 feet behind the boat, the second one was darted 20 feet under the water to ensure that one did not get away. That fish was 190 pounds and ate a live squid. They did not get anothe bite the rest of the night.
Capt. Mark DeCabia and Capt. Mark DeBlasio took the John Dale charter out on the Canyon Runner Monday to Tuesday and got a late start looking for the wind to lay down so they didn't get to the edge until 4pm. They went right to where they left off in 550 feet of water but found that the water had cooled so they put out a couple bonita plugs to troll fast to the south looking for the water and maybe a wahoo on the way but the weeds proved horrible to fish. They ended up running down south where they set up in 600 feet of water. They found a slow pick lasting all night long putting one fish in the boat an hour and lossing 8 other fish during the night. The fish ate almost exclusively live squid and jigs. The most productive baits were live squid down 120 feet on 60 flouro and jigs down 150 feet. They ended up going 13 for 20.
Canyon Runner October Reports and Pictures 
