Canyon Runner Reports - 7/11 (3 Yellowfin & 20 Bluefin)

[Canyon Runner]

Capt. DeBlasio took the Andy Weil charter for an overnighter Tuesday to Wednesday and decided to run south to put him in a position to catch both yellowfin on the troll in the Wilmington and bluefin on the jigs and bait on the inshore grounds. He choose to run to the tip of the Wilmington Tuesday afternoon and started trolling at 3pm. By 8pm he had gone 1 for 2, 2 for 4 and 0 for 2 on nice yellowfin in the 40-50 pound class. The yellowfin ate Canyon Runner green machine spreader bars and purple/black squid bars and ballyhoo skirted with blue/white moldcraft little hookers. Capt. Mark decided to drift out in that area for the night bite but did not have touch and thus at 3am picked up and ran into the Hambone for the morning bluefin bite. By 8am Capt. Mark had the bluefins solid under the boat putting a 48" bluefin and 46" bluefin in the boat and released another 10 bluefin. He was on the Hambone. The final count was another 48" bluefin in the boat and 2 more released for a total of 14 bluefin. Mark was drifting the Hambone all morning finishing up at Noon.


Capt. Phil Dulanie and Capt. Mark DeCabia took the Scott Burney charter out on a day troll on Wednesday but decided to change over to the only game in town - jigging and chunking bluefins. He ran 95 miles south to the 19 Fathom Lump and immediately read the fish and had them on within minutes of starting his first drift. We use our customized hammered jigs in 10 oz with 4x strength treble hooks and had almost all the bites on that. The charter did well hooking the fish but needed to go thru a few fish before keeping them on the line. They ended the day on the drift at 10am with 6 bluefin taken and or released and lossing another 6 or more. When the charter tired of fighting the fish they went on the troll and nailed 3 nice mahi in the 15 pound class. They were on 19th Fathom Lump all day on the drift.

[Capt Larry]

Great report! Complete and to the T. Thanks, Capt Larry