Canyon Runner August 1-2 (10 Longfin & 30 Pound Mahis)

[Canyon Runner]

After canceling Sunday's overnighter Captains Dulanie, Nighan and DeBlasio took out an open boat trip on Monday to Tuesday and decided it was time again to stake out the Hudson Canyon. With a couple promising reports and a partial water temp chart we headed to the west wall and put out the lines. We trolled all through out the west wall and had our first bite - a 4 bagger of nice longfin that ate 2 green mini-mamba bars, a green machine bar and a ballyhoo. We worked the hell out of that area without another bite and then we got a better water temp shot and turned the boat to head just north on the 100 fathom line. We found another good shot of longfin going 6 for 7 on 30-50 pound fish. The ate the green mini-mamba bars and ballyhoo this time. We then continued trolling north to find a break that went from 74.5 to 78.5 degrees on the 100 fathom line. On that troll north we picked 7 nice mahi including 2 that weighed over 30 pounds. We set up on the drift at 9pm in the hot water looking for the first yellowfin on a chunk for the year. But nothing happened all night long. Up on the troll in the morning we worked the 100 square over to 150/050 and then up the letters without a tuna bite but put a few more nice mahi in the boat.