Canyon Runner 1 & 2 - Sept 4-5 (81 Tuna)

[Canyon Runner]

Captain Phil Dulanie took the Dave Kirk charter out to the South Toms Canyon on the Canyon Runner and had all day to troll working the Toms, Hendrickson and south Toms canyons including waters out to 500 fathoms but did not troll a fish. They set up on the anchor at 7pm and immediately got into the yellowfin. They picked fish all night long with a mad dog bite from 2pm to 5pm and caught 35 yellowfin. They ended up keeping 17 and released another 18 before calling it quits. The bites came on anything they put in the water as our Penn International 50S and 50Ws got a huge workout.

Capt. Mark DeBlasio took Canyon Runner 2 out to the South Toms Canyon with the John Hancock charter and ended up working that area on the troll for the entire afternoon and it paid off. They had three shots of longfin going 5 for 7, 2 for 3 and 1 for 1. The longfin ate Canyon Runner 9" Rainbow Squid Bars and ballyhoo. They set up on the chunk right next to Canyon Runner 1 and had the same results boating 37 yellowfin keeping 12 and releasing the rest. Again, it did not matter what bait was used as the fish bit everything. The crew also jigged a bunch as well.

[John Rogers]

Awesome report as always. Keep them coming.

[jgray]

Now thats a great tuna report. I need to catch some of those guys... Send em back down south...