Canyon Runner Reports - 1st Week of July (Canyons Slow Down)

[Canyon Runner]

It was a busy first week of July for the Canyon Runner Crews with both fishing and other events so I am very sorry for the late reports.

Unfortunately the canyons are not giving up as many fish as we usually get this time of year. While we continue to make 100+ mile runs to put our charters on fish we are not always benefited with a catch despite all our efforts – but that is fishing. Nice to hear the bluefins showed up down south – looks like some more long runs ahead of us until August when hopefully something gets going in our local canyons.

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July 2 - Capt. Phil Dulanie left Manasquan with the Richard Suth charter at 1am Monday morning and ran out to the Carteret Canyon with the thought to finally keep it close to home (80 miles) and start beating the grounds looking for fish to show up. He worked the 50-100 fathom line inshore of the tip down to the Lindenchol and out to the northeast corner of the Lindenchol where is got his first bite and put a 50 pound yellowfin in the boat after reading a pod of bait down very deep our or Northstar recorder just off the bank at 8am. Conditions where a bit sported out there with 10 footers rolling in once they got into the deep but it did lay down later. After working the northeast corner for a short while they headed off to the break which was on the 1000 Fathom Line but there were no fish in on the break. By the time they turned around and trolled into the 8-10 footers it took them until Noon to get back to the corner where they got a three banger putting 1 in the boat and then working fish they were reading at 140 feet got two other bites putting one more in the boat. Every fish came on a ballyhoo skirted with moldcraft little hookers and Islanders all in blue/white and were in the 40-50 pound class.

Capt. Mark DeBlasio took the Shawn Noonan charter from Center Morichise out on the HU2 Monday July 2 for a day troll and decided to head back out to the 71 degree water off the 1000 fathom line of the Carteret where he had been fishing. Working that edge and deep into the hot water produced nothing all day. When Phil got his second fish in on the Northeast corner of the Lindy Capt. Mark picked 'em up and ran 20 miles into Phil and saved the day with a nice yellowfin on a ballyhoo.

July 3 – Capt Mark DeBlasio and Capt. Phil Dulanie had a combined 2 boat charter with Carl Bloomfield and crew on Tuesday July 3. Again it was a struggle. Working everywhere within, inshore, offshore of the Lindenchol canyon and 5 miles north and south had produce all of one bite for the Hooked Up 2 on 40 pound yellowfin caught off the 500 fathom line just north of the Lindenchol by 9am. Capt. Mark caught these fish on naked split billed ballyhoo. Trolling the rest of the morning and deep into the afternoon produced one more bite of 3 yellowfin and all of those were put in the boat. The first yellowfin took a new spreader bar we've just started using which deploys 12 inch squid - this one was purple/black. The other two yellowfin took ballyhoo. They trolled until almost 4pm and that was it for the dead plus one mahi. The Canyon Runner worked all the same areas pulling all types of bars, ballys, lures, daisy chains and never got a bite. 12 other boats in the area only caught one other tuna that we know about and a fleet in the Spencer Canyon of 5 or 6 boats completely struck out.

July 7-8 - Capt. Mark DeBlasio took the Jeff Porello charter out for an overnighter Friday to Saturday and decided to head all the way down south to get in on the bluefin fishing that has turned on down there. On Friday afternoon he trolled 2 nice bluefins down around Massey’s Canyon on purple/black 9 inch squid and a ballyhoo with a moldcraft little hooker in blue/white. He had only had a couple hours on the troll Friday afternoon as he had work he way down there going lump to lump jigging and trolling. He dropped a few others but finally putting a couple nice fish in the boat. He overnighted on Massey’s drifting right where he had the two bluefins and released a small mako and brown shark but that was it for the night. Before dawn he ran out to the Baltimore canyon to avoid the huge huge crowd on the inshore bluefin grounds but did not find much life on the edge. One big pod of bait was read on the east wall out by the mouth and working that for 3 hours produced one yellowfin. They gave up on the tuna and drifted for tiles catching 3 goldens and 5 gray tiles drifting in 450-500 feet. The biggest golden was 26 pounds. We took Sunday/Monday off due to the forecast and the bad fishing but both boats will be out on Tuesday.

Both boats are out today, July 10, with Capt. Phil heading to the Hudson Canyon to try to find something in our local waters – there is lots of life there (whales, bait, birds) but not much tuna life. Capt. Mark headed south to the bluefin grounds and maybe a shot offshore in the Spencer/Wilmington area. I will get the newer reports up as soon as possible and apologize again for the late reports.

Good luck to everyone fishing the Ocean City Tuna Tournament this week!!! We have 3 of our Canyon Runner Crew (Brad Burgess, Ty McGowan and Eddie Ferrell) down there running private boats so hopefully one of them is lucky enough to put something on the scales. Good luck boys!!!!

[LuckyLady]

Good luck to all the crews!