Hudson Canyon 8-12

[Double D]

Arrived at the tip at 8:00 am, 73 degree gray-blue water. Lines in, first bite at 8:10. 20 pound yellowfin ate a horse ballyhoo on a purple illand pro

Next fish hit the rainbow squid bar as soon as I pushed up the throttles, this time a 40 pounder. Lookin to be a good day, right? Not so fast

Troll around the tip, through the notch and make our way to the east elbow. Not much change in water temps. Next bite didnt come until about 10 on a green annihilator, but he spit the hook. 1/2 hour later 2 huge splashes and we are hooked up on the 80 wide and he's taking line. Ate a B/W islander, nice fish. But we busted the mainline 10 minutes in New line, drags set. Whats up with that?

Trolled out toward 100 square and into the deep. Nice water change at the mouth, temps up to 77, but loaded with weeds. Talked to a couple boats that ventured out into the sod farm with nothing to show, so we turned back towards the elbow.

Back at the east wall, the yellowfin are all over the surface, but we couldn't get a bite. We threw the kitchen sink at them - skirted ballyhoo, naked, bars, jets, bullets, planers, spread in tight, spread way out - nothing. Even tried a little jigging. Oh well, at least the fish are there

Decide to head to a tile spot for the last hour. Trolling over, 2 longfin pass up the whole spread and key in on a couple small stalker jets on the flat. More meat in box

Fished for tile for about an hour, 4 in the box including a 42 pounder.

Seas laid right out for a smooth ride home

[gradywhite273]

Great Day doug, 4 tuna in the box and tilefish. Oustanding.

[whitey]

Nice day Doug! Any day you you go home with 8 fish in the box is a good one.

[NO MO NJ]

Not a bad trip. Tried calling you back on the radio, but no reponse. We headed over to the west wall by the letters and found some good but not great water.

We had 4 yellowfin 60 to 70lb range around 1030. Had a nice blue marlin attack the spread but managed jump off. Considerable size took a couple of jumps and that was it. Also had a small macko wack at the green machine in our spread. A lot of life out there but thought we could get a couple more in the boat. Alot of tuna on the surface.

Ride home was good and fish in the box couldn't complain for the first trip offshore on the new boat.

Good luck rest of the season and hope to see you out there soon!

[paul708]

nice report way to go

[Double D]

No Mo - good talking to you. I had to turn the radio off, too much silly chatter. wish I had called you back, sounds like you had better action.

Here's Todd with his slob

[Big Jay]

Not a bad trip at all!!

Working through the salad is a pain in the behind. You guys still managed to put some meat in the box..plus some tiles.

Beautiful day to be on the water too.

[justhecs]

hell of a job and that is some tile fish, man they are some nice looking fish aren't they

[Vixen]

great report that is one nice looking tile fish

[tunakiller777]

keep em coming!