Hudson Canyon 10/4-10/5

[giantfan]

Hudson Canyon 10/4-10/5

We left the dock (Keyport) at 10:00 am Saturday morning heading to the Hudson Canyon.

The crew constisted of Jeff S (aka, now known as “tileman”), Sportfishermen.com’s own Bryan Rose, Mike G, Frankie Migs, “little” Joe, and myself.

“Team faadootamite”

It couldn’t have been a nicer ride out to the deep. Flat and calm the whole way out there.

We stopped on a monster school of dolphin on the way out, just north of the Glory hole. Thought we saw some tuna mixed in so we figured we would give it a shot. Nice blue, 64 deg water. Nothing doing there, so after about 20 min of working the area we picked up and continued on our way towards the Texas Tower.

We figured that we would take a look there to see if anything was doing and troll our way to the canyon. There wasn’t any temp break and there was a boat right on top of the tower, who we spoke with, and he wasn’t doing anything but looking for bait for the night chunk, so we decided to continue running to the canyon.

We dropped lines in just past the tip and worked our way down the east wall in search of the temp break that we saw on the Sat charts. The chatter on the radio was that there was a decent long fin bite around sunrise but since then it was pretty slow, with some mahi coming off of the pots. We saw some life around a couple of pots and worked the area for awhile with no results. We heard that there was warmer water at the 100 square so we worked our way out there to set up for the night. Not even a touch the whole way.

We set up just south of the fleet and decided to drift the deep targeting swords as it sounded like the night before was pretty slow up on the flats. Around midnight we started to hear on the radio that there were some small swords being caught. Soon after that we hooked up and boated a 45” sword (congrats Bryan on your first sword, too bad we couldn’t put it in the box) Soon after that we had another run off and as the angler was trying to come tight, another sword that was a bit bigger than the first one came tearing thru the lights heading right at the boat with the light stick close behind. It looked like he was going to spear the hull when he made a right turn and proceed to throw the hook and get out of Dodge. Damn!!!! That one was a keeper!!!! While we were still getting everything back in order after our brief visit, one of the other rods went off. We came tight on it for a couple of seconds, and it threw the hook while running right at us.
There was a lot of chatter on the radio with swords being caught all over the place. Some boats had up to 8 swords. It seemed that there was a mad dog bite going on for a couple of hours and then it started to slow down a bit.

The wind started kicking up around 4:00am coming out of the south east and things started to get a little rocky.
We went up on the troll just after sunrise. We worked the edge from the 100 square heading towards the elbow and picked up 1 longfin and 2 mahi. We continued trolling across the canyon over to west side to see if we could pick up some tiles and get some meat on the boat for the crew.

It was pretty tough conditions on the drift, as the wind was nothing like they forecasted and never really laid down. We ended up with 12 small golden tiles in the box and decided to call it a day around noon.

Total Tally
• 1 for 3 on Swords (45” release)
• 2 Mahi
• 1 LFT
• 12 Golden Tiles

We heard some talk on the radio about a front coming thru and it being pretty nasty off of Moriches. Around the chicken canyon the wind changed directions and started coming out of the North West which messed things up pretty good with a south east swell. Had a bumpy ride for a few hours and it started to lay down a little past the monster ledge. The rest of the ride was nice and smooth and we made good time from there to the barn.

Not the most productive trip of my life but we managed to put some meat in the box and have a great time none the less.

I would like to thank the crew for all the hard work and am looking forward to the next trip, which will probably be next year as I don’t see myself going out to the deep again this year unless a mad dog bite develops and the weather conditions are ideal. Look out bass!!!!

Below are some pictures from the trip.


I can't figure out how to put captions on the pictures so here they are in order of the pictures

#1 Where the hell are the fish??? It's October for God sake
#2 Think it would be OK to tie off on this pot????
#3 Sunset at the canyon
#4 Taking Line
#5 Bryans Sword
#6 Finally some blood on the deck!!!
#7 It took 4 guys to pull in this monster
#8 Bryan's Tile
#9 Mike's Tile

[giantfan]

Some more pictures

#1 and #3 Jeff's Tile AKA "Tileman" He made the rest of us look silly. As soon as his line hit the bottom he hooked up everytime.

#2 Frankies tile and the biggest of the bunch.

[Prime Time]

Nice Report, great job on the tiles.

[whowantstoknow]

Great shots and report!!! Congrats Ted sounds like a great weekend!!

Do you know ive still to this day - never caught a tilefish....im jealous!

it was a beautiful weekend...and some great fishing...Congrats!

[giantfan]

Originally Posted by whowantstoknow

Great shots and report!!! Congrats Ted sounds like a great weekend!!

Do you know ive still to this day - never caught a tilefish....im jealous!

it was a beautiful weekend...and some great fishing...Congrats!

Thanks,

I think only two people on the boat had ever caught a tile fish before as well.

I still have never caught one. At first I was at the helm trying to stem the tide, but after they hooked a few, I decided that it looked like a lot of work reeling in all that line and decided to stay at the helm.

[sportfishingusa]

nice trip man!!

i can not believe bryon rose caught a fish!! lol haha

go get em guys.. sounds like it was atleast a fun trip..

very very nice way to make it happen ted.!!

[Nauti Natured]

Nice work guys. Better than a skunk!

How long was your run to the canyon?

[giantfan]

Originally Posted by Nauti Natured

Nice work guys. Better than a skunk!

How long was your run to the canyon?

About 4.5 hrs We stopped around the Glory Hole for a bit when we saw some life.

[giantfan]

Originally Posted by sportfishingusa

nice trip man!!

i can not believe bryon rose caught a fish!! lol haha

go get em guys.. sounds like it was atleast a fun trip..

very very nice way to make it happen ted.!!

Thanks Vinny.

Not only did he catch some fish. He rigged some Hooskies that looked like they weren't attached to anything, just swimming along their merry way. I just wasn't able to put them on the right spots.

[livetofishnj]

First off, Thanks again Ted for the ride. Had a great time

It wasn't an epic trip by any means but we caught fish which for a trip to the hudson this fall seems to be an accomplishment. It was a great trip for me scoring my first sword and tile. I cannot believe how hard that little sword pulled, had it up to the top in minutes but once it saw the boat it took every bit of line I had gotten back and then some. It ran for over a minute, just straight down and I had the drag pushed up almost to full. fun but tough fight....

The tiles were something I can say I've done, but reeling 400 feet just plain sucks... I'll do it again but not without a button to push for retrieve or record size fish under the boat...

It was a solid 28 hours offshore, and every minute was a blast! Wish there was something worth chasing so we could do it again soon!