Canyon Runner Overnighter - June 12-13 - 24 Bluefin

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At 4:00 pm on June 12 the Canyon Runner crew consisting of Capt. Justin Nighan, Capt. Mark DeBlasio and Capt. Phil Dulanie - with the Bob Berghahn charter from Pactogue, NY put the lines in the water south of the Dip and quickly broke the ice on our 2005 season with two 25 pounds bluefins within 10 minutes of trolling, the bluefin hit Canyon Runner Custom Jets.

They continued to troll towards the Block Canyon and picked 3 more bluefin in the 15-20 pound class before dark on Canyon Runner Custom Squid Spreaders - 9" rainbow worked best. The night bite saw one 200 pound blue shark and another one lost but nothing else.

Up on the troll in the morning they worked back towards home and were just about to pull the lines out of the water when they saw tuna busting water. In the next 2 hours they boated and released another 19 bluefin all in the 25-30 pound class. Those fish were mostly caught on Canyon Runner Custom Jets, Canyon Runner Squid Spreader Bars and ballyhoo. They were headed for home at 2pm Monday with 24 bluefin to their credit and will be headed back out Tuesday for another overnighter if the weather holds.

Obviously we would like to have had bigger fish but the charter was thrilled to have the rod bend and we were just as thrilled to be back out on the edge.

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