Canyon Runner Reports - 7/26-27 (15 Longfin & Yellowfin)

[Canyon Runner]

Capt. Phil Dulanie and Capt. Mark DeCabia took the Matt Cervino charter out to the canyons - finally. We got tired of going 110 miles south for those bluefins and with good water on the temperature charts and a couple decent reports we headed 100 miles east towards the Dip but stopped 10 miles short of it.

They immediately read bait, had life on the surface, and put a 3 bagger of nice longfin in the boat and added 3 nice mahi as well. They trolled east to the Dip and then got a call from some friends further out east and picked up and ran to the Fishtails. As soon as they got the pattern out they did a 5 bagger on longfin and then shortly thereafter got 2 more. They were trolling Canyon Runner spreader bars, green machines and ballyhoo and all the bites came on the ballyhoo trolled right alongside the bars.

Talking to several of the boats on the troll there we found out that there was a nice big-eye bite in the morning there and a nice chunk bite in 1000 feet of water with one boat catching 11 and another 15 the night before. Unfortunatley for us that the night chunk bite was non-existant but the guys still had an eventful night - although one they would like to forget. They ended up hooking something huge at 2am and found it for 3 hours before finding out it was a Manta Ray and cutting it off.

Up on the troll in the morning they pointed the bow west and worked the 100 fathom line back towards the Dip and pulled a 3 bagger of longfin and 2 bagger of yellowfin all on tuna clones and ballyhoo. They finished the trip with 13 longfin and 2 yellowfin.

[POON MAN]

Nice work CR crew

The fish have finally showed up this way, with reports of yellowfins ,wahoo and Swordfish

[Double D]

Let the games begin! Thanks for the report

[Canyon Runner]

Thanks guys - where are the Swords? Can't wait to start nailing them at night. Hope it is just half as good as last year.

[JD5652]

Thanks for the report....I heard there wer a couple descnet size swords taken off the 500 fathom line last night at Hydro.....