Sorry for the compilation of several reports in one but we’ve had a busy week and I wanted to get all these out there before the weekend.

Starting with the latest first, on Thursday, July 8 Capt. Phil Dulanie, Capt. Mike Zajac and Capt. Hook took out the Tom Bileicki charter on our 60’ Ritchie Howell. They left early morning for an extended overnighter and ran to the southwest corner of the Hudson right back where the bite was hot. Well it wasn’t that day – trolling all day they picked away at only 3 yellowfin before being called in by our other boat 10 miles further south. By the time they got there that bite was over so they stayed for the night.

The night was again uneventful but the morning was far from that. Trolling from 4:30am to 9am they boated another 11 yellowfin and tagged and released 2 for a total of 16 yellowfin in the 40-70 pound class.

Continuing on the 60’ Ritchie Capt. Mike Zajac and Capt. Hook took out the Derrick Rodberg charter Sunday to Monday to the Hudson only to see the great action completely died out. Trolling with Derrick’s two sons and their friend (9 year olds and 11 year olds) we had fun with mahi and a nice yellowfin very quickly to get the kids settled in but then they really got to experience offshore fishing. Nothing happened the rest of the afternoon troll.

The night bite – which ended up being one of the prettiest nights in the canyon was eventful in the fact we boated our first yellowfin of 2010 on the chunk when it ate a dead squid at 50 feet. The morning boat saw another couple mahi but no other tuna.

The last trip on the 60’ was on Monday-Tuesday, July 12-13 with the Damien Romeo charter. Due to the drop off in the Hudson we headed to the Lindy are and had an interesting trip. We trolled 1 yellowofin and 1 longfin in the afternoon. At night we nailed a 120 pound mako and a mahi. Up on the troll in the morning we nailed a nice white and saw a bunch more. 5 flags for 5 fish. Not great but interesting.

The final trip I need to update on is one on the 48’ Viking with Capt. Mark DeBlasio with an open boat charter. Leaving the dock around noon on Monday July 12 they headed to the Toms Canyon to spread out the fleet and look around. They found some fish and had 4 nice yellowfin in the boat by dark. The night bite was dead again. In the morning the Toms was also dead so they put it on the troll to the north and worked up to the Hudson. They picked away again and put 3 more yellowfin in the boat. It was getting late and Capt. Mark wanted to look around inshore for Bluefin so they headed towards the Chicken and as soon as they found whales they put out the lines. That only lasted 10 minutes when they had a triple header on 57-58 inch Bluefin. They put one in the boat and dropped the others for a solid trip with 8 nice tuna from 50 to 100 pounds.