Capt Mark DeCabia and Capt. Mark DeBlasio took out the Damien Romeo charter and his team on Saturday to Sunday for what was to be a long overnighter and what turned into a 20+ hour short overnighter as they loaded the boxes with all the fish they needed and were releasing early on their way home before dark.
However, they did not get them right off the bat and were sitting on zero while the 48 Canyon Runner was on its way home with its big catch of the day. But at 3:30pm their persistence paid off and they had they first of 4 shots. They went 3 for 4, 6 for 6, 10 for 10, and 5 for 6 and finished up the trip with 24 yellowfin bringing home 12 and releasing the rest. All the fish were 30-45 pounds except one around 65 and one small one.
The action was again almost entirely on Canyon Runner bars as they trolled up to 6 on this trip including mostly rainbow and regular green machine bars. Because the green machine bars are working so well we've started to put out a bunch of the Mini-Mamba Bars as they work just like the green machines but give us different colors to use and the blue/silver and purple/black were going off all day as well. On yesterday's trips both boats started trolling up to 8 bars in a 13 rod pattern and the lures and ballyhoo did not get touched - we had 57 yellowfin yesterday between the two boats and I'll follow up tomorrow with more pictures and a more detailed report. We’ve never really trolled more than 4 bars at once for any stretch of time but for some reason for the past 4 or 5 trips that is all the fish want so that is what we are giving them – unfortunately we’ve got 150 12-packs of ballyhoo that are going to go to waste if they don’t start eating the meat.
The fish were taken all along the west wall of the Hudson Canyon in 500 feet of 76 degree water.
60 Ritchie Howell Canyon Runner July 5-6 - 24 Yellowfin 30-60 pounds 
