September 27-28 - Capts Phil Dulanie and Mark DeCabia with Jay Richardella took the Jack Yolynski and Eddie Edwards charter out to the Hudson Canyon Thursday to Friday hitting the 100-square area with an hour to troll. They trolled up the edge and picked on longfin on a 9" rainbow squid bar before setting up at the 100-square. They quickly had another longfin and picked away at yellowfin. By 2am they had 3 longfin and 6 yellowfin in the boat and had released a small sword when something big took a live squid down 80 feet. Two hours later they darted a 223 pound Big-Eye that wrecked the charter so they pulled the hook and came home early.
September 24-25 - Capts. Phil Dulanie and Mark DeCabia and mate Jay Richardella had the Kevin Grant charter out Monday/Tuesday and took them right back to MidWay. They got there to find 10 boats had our numbers - interesting as no one from this service went yesterday that I know of. Anyway, they had a hard time getting within a mile of where they fished but eventually dropped the hook in 525 feet of water. They did not have much in the way of bait under the boat all night but did pick away at the yellowfin putting 6 in the boat, longfin putting 3 in the boat and interestingly enough nailed a nice 50 pound wahoo that ate a live squid on a circle hook with 60 pound flouro. The wind blew 15-20 all night and with the moon the current was screaming putting conditions on the difficult side but they pulled it out.
September 21-22 - Capts. Phil Dulanie, Mark DeCabia and Billy Rowan had the Paul Pedretti charter out Sunday/Monday and decided to look a little more to the east as the fishing is just not as good as we want in the canyons to the south despite all that good looking water. So they headed off for right in between the Dip and the Hudson and put it on the troll at 2pm. They fought with weeds all day and only picked a few mahi off some of the pots. They set up on the hook and immediately had fish to the boat boating 4 longfin and 2 yellowfin by 9:30pm. The fish were caught on jigs, live squid and sardines. However, the bite did not keep up the rest of the evening and they only picked away until 2am when it completely shut off. They picked one more longfin at first light and ended the night with a decent catch of 12 tuna including 8 yellowfin, 4 longfin and released a small sword.
September 20-21 – Capt. Phil Dulanie, Capt. Mark DeCabia and Capt. Adam Afellii had the Terry Miner charter out Thursday to Friday and ran back to the southwest corner area to find out 80 others boats did the same thing. With no where else to go as night fall was upon them they set up at the southwest corner and hoped for the best. They were lucky enough to get the yellowfin under the boat and started to pick away hooking 14 tuna during the night plus a sword and a mako. Unfortunately there were a few errors in the cockpit and some fish were lost to the rudder and wheels but they did put 7 nice yellowfin in the boat. Considering the over 120 boats in the Hudson it was a solid performance.
September 19-20 - Capt. Phil Dulanie, Capt. Mark DeCabia and Capt. Adam Adolphia had the Dr. Gary Cuozzo charter out on Wednesday to Thursday and fighting tough seas were not able to get to the Hudson until 4pm. They went right down to the 100-square where they trolled one longfin before nightfall. They anchored up at the 100-square and had little bait nor marked many fish and only had 2 yellowfin in the boat by 1am. As such, they pulled the hook and ran over to the HU2 and tied up behind them. They eventually got the fish going and put another 8 in the boat before sun-up.
Canyon Runner Reports w/Pics – Sept 19-28 (5 Trips – 223# Big-Eye/48 Yellowfin/Longfin) 
