Canyon Runner Reports - 7/26-27 (15 Longfin & Yellowfin)

["Canyon Runner"]

Capt. Phil Dulanie and Capt. Mark DeCabia took the Matt Cervino charter out to the canyons - finally. We got tired of going 110 miles south for those bluefins and with good water on the temperature charts and a couple decent reports we headed 100 miles east towards the Dip but stopped 10 miles short of it.

They immediately read bait, had life on the surface, and put a 3 bagger of nice longfin in the boat and added 3 nice mahi as well. They trolled east to the Dip and then got a call from some friends further out east and picked up and ran to the Fishtails. As soon as they got the pattern out they did a 5 bagger on longfin and then shortly thereafter got 2 more. They were trolling Canyon Runner spreader bars, green machines and ballyhoo and all the bites came on the ballyhoo trolled right alongside the bars.

Talking to several of the boats on the troll there we found out that there was a nice big-eye bite in the morning there and a nice chunk bite in 1000 feet of water with one boat catching 11 and another 15 the night before. Unfortunatley for us that the night chunk bite was non-existant but the guys still had an eventful night - although one they would like to forget. They ended up hooking something huge at 2am and found it for 3 hours before finding out it was a Manta Ray and cutting it off.

Up on the troll in the morning they pointed the bow west and worked the 100 fathom line back towards the Dip and pulled a 3 bagger of longfin and 2 bagger of yellowfin all on tuna clones and ballyhoo. They finished the trip with 13 longfin and 2 yellowfin.

[CAPTJohnny]

Hey Adam, I was out there yesterday and heard Mark and Phil on the radio.....I spoke with the Volatility and they had a nice Bigeye that you mentioned, and I guess had a few more boils that were missed as well on your bars. We worked inshore at the southern tip of the Glory Hole, had a White check out on of the Canyon Runner rainbow squid bars, but didn't have any bally on board. We had 3-4 knockdowns on the GM bars and ended up boating a SBFT. Setup for sharking and nothing but a look at something very big. Good luck on tonights trip

[CTBob]

Fished off Block on Wed. Went to the Mud Hole, the Dump, and the Fingers. Trolled for tuna. Beautiful weather, saw a Mako jump three times, two knock downs, but no tuna!!