Canyon Runner Reports - 8/15-16 (3 Big-Eyes & 54 Yellowfin)

["Canyon Runner"]

Sorry for the late reports as I have been away at the MA500 all last week (full report to follow but we did OK with the boat I was on going 5 for 6 with white marlin and the Canyon Runner with Capt. Phil Dulanie, Capt. Mark DeCabia and mate Mike Zajac nailing 5 big-eyes on the last day to place for third most points for tuna – again full report to follow shortly). Hopefully some of the attached pictures make up for such late reports from last weeks trips.

August 15-16 - Capt. Mark DeBlasio took the Tom Mallan charter out to the 100-square and ended up the line towards the Dip with Phil to avoid the crowd. He did 14 yellowfin at night and a friend up on the troll at the 100-Square in the morning hooked 3 big-eyes boating one so Mark stayed to troll. Mark was right on the 100-square and trolled until 10:50am and only picked one more yellowfin and was going to pull lines out at 11am when with 2 minutes to go he got his bite. 4 big-eyes came up on two 12" purple/black Canyon Runner spreader bars, 1 rainbow green machine bar and one green/yellow 6" Canyon Runner jet. The two on the 12" squid bars did not come tight but the other two did. One was hooked on a Penn International 16VSX and fought for over 1.5 hours before the Poon Harpoon landed home. The second came in quicker but was bigger at around 150 pounds. The one on the 16VSX was around 135.

August 15-16 - Capts Phil Dulanie and Mark DeCabia with mate Mike Zajac took the Mike Lilonski charter out on the Canyon Runner for their fourth turn around overnighter in a row last Tuesday to Wednesday. Leaving the inlet at 3:30pm they ran right to the 100-Square but found it packed with boats. A call into Adam LaRosa on the SAT and a review of the water temperature charts and confirmation of a good bite continuing at the Dip they decided to just move a few miles up the line to east and settled in. They had tuna on immediately putting 6 in the boat by 9pm. The bite continued at a pick until about 1am when all hell broke losse and everything in the ocean (manta rays, porpoies, squid, mackrel, and yellowfin) appeared right behind the boat. They quickly limited out and went into release mode. The charter fought a total of 39 yellowfin bringing 31 to boat - keeping their limit and releasing the rest. The action came on 60 pound flouro with sardines and fresh dead squid the best bait and over 10 fish coming on our hammered diamond jigs.

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Great report as usual and now we have pics to drool over.