On a very rare crew trip Capts. Phil Dulanie, Mark DeCabia, Billy Rowan and crew Adam LaRosa, Mike Zajac, Brad Burgess, Mike Gallo, John Timken, Matt Hanifee, Mike Elton and Matt Hobbsheaded out to the Hudson Canyon Friday night and set up for sharking and drifted east for 6 miles picking one blue shark. Getting up on the troll for an early morning big-eye bite did not happen. However we quickly got into a nice pick of small yellowfin from shorts to 30 inches. Most of the fish in the morning were picked on small ballyhoo and 9 inch Canyon Runner Rainbow Bars. We picked away for 2 hours putting 15 fish in the boat before 7am when the bite quickly shut off – we kept 7 of the 15 and released the rest.
We trolled out to the deep and south but did not get another bite and turned back inshore when we got a call from Chris Baxter from the Fat Boy saying he just put a big-eye in the boat. We turned and headed in his direction and immediately got covered up with yellwofin again put a few more in the boat releasing one. We continued trolling toward Fat Boy but before we found Chris we found the big-eyes just short of him. We read a nice fish down 100 feet but did not get him to bite so turned back around and ran over him again when he decided to eat a ballyhoo trolled just in front of a spreader bar. He ate a straight Penn 50T so we could not continue forward too long and as soon as we slowed another big-eye came up on the 9" Rainbow Squid Bar but completely missed the hook. 35 minutes later the 181 Big-Eye was in the boat. The last fish of the day. We ended the trip with 19 small yellwofin keeping 10 and releasing the rest.
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Canyon Runner Overnight - June 16-17 (181 Big-Eye & 19 Yellowfin - Pictures) 
