Headed out to West Atlantis with JFM, Paul, Frank, Big John, Ken, Craig, Capt Walt and myself... It was Craig and Walts first Canyon Trip and first for the 43 Viking... Would she raise fish??????


Arrived at the dock on Sat morning, seas were rough so we fueled up and took our time... We would be running out with Azzura a 48 Westmac run by Capt Don...

The meeting of the minds...



Decision was to hit a break at West Atlantis and off we went..



We left at 10am in some sporty seas that held no challenge for the Viking, the Westmac was soon out of sight and already had 2 yellowfin 1.5 hours before we got there... Don was fish in 1,000 feet of water just sw of the west atlantis, we set up at 3:30pm at west atlantis and headed west, found a break from 71.5 to 75, but no life or fish, we headed back east and at around 5pm became doubled up...



And the deck became covered with blood



Soon after we hooked up again, Capt Walt took the rod for his first tuna ever, Big John gave him some assistence to make sure he landed it..



And soon he was rewarded his first tuna ever...




We continued picking away at fish in a very fishy area just off the edge, when a rod started screaming... Paul took the rod and was actually pretty exhausted everyone kept pushing him to finish the job and he did.... A nice 50 something pound Albacore





We went 7 for 7 with fish from 30 to 55 lbs before setting up for the nite chunk, john diplaying his perfectly rigged swordbait...



The nite bite was sloooooooooooooooooooooooow... no hits, no nothing.... No much going on with other boat either..

Morning we started the troll at 4:30am in hopes of Big Eye, Flo Scan showed us having some fuel conserns, not knowing what we really had for fuel, we stayed close to the edge and chat was very quite, nite bite was slow for mostly everyone and morning troll started off slow also... We trolled until 9am then trolled toward mainland for a few hours....


Thank you guys for everything you did to make this trip successful, thank you Craig and Walt for giving me time at the Helm, its alot of fun up there watching the action down below...



AND DON"T GET ME STARTED ON THE FUKING BLACK FLIES.......CHEEZUS THOSE LITTLE PRICKS ARE RELENTLESS..... Just as you doze off.... bite bite bite, we had 100 of them in the cabin.. One kept getting me and I finally stunned him, proceeded to pull his wings and legs off while he was alive