Hudson Canyon 8-3/4

[Snapp]

The trip was awesome!! Final tally was 15 yellows to 85-pounds, 6 mahi to 25-pounds, a 200-pound bigeye, 2 white marlin (released) and about a dozen small yellows (released)

I want to thank Gman and Paul from JPR rods for all the help and guidance you have given me on Jigging. I was only able to hook up a few rat yellows on the jig but I am now hooked. I can't wait to get out again and Jig them up. ADDfishing was able to hook into a bigger yellow on the jig and is ready for more jigging action as well. Paul the rod was great!!

I am not good at writing reports so I will copy and paste what Chris wrote up. The original post can be found here: http://www.noreast.com/postedreports...date&daysold=7

Report:
"Captain Bryce Poyer of White Water Outfitters in Hampton Bays set us up with an amazing trip. We set sail on Monday, 8/3, at 7am on the Blushin' Rose out of Shinnecock with Captain Bryce, Paul Visentin, Kevin, Jeremy, Joe World Record Seidel and I. We steamed to the Hudson and trolled until it got dark. We boated five 50 and 60 pound class yellowfin, a couple mahi and released a white marlin.



When it got dark we drifted and began chunking with minimal wind and a virtually flat ocean. We quickly connected with a couple of nice mahi to 25-pounds but the rest of the night was slow...until about 3am. We started jigging with spinning and conventional set-ups and played catch and release with 15 pound yellows. They started getting larger and we began boating quality 50 and 60 pounders. Then at 4am, all hell broke loose.



We hooked up with a really big fish on a jig and a spinning rod. After 3 1/2 hours of an amazing fight, we noticed that the spinning reel was shot. There was a large crack where it was attached to the rod. We got some electrical tape and wrapped it up super tight. One turn on the reel immediately told us that this was quick fix not going to be able to handle the pressure. Captain Bryce made the decision to attempt to cut the line and splice it on to a larger rod/reel. Joe held the rod while I held the reel to the rod. Paul put on some gloves and grabbed the line with the fish at the other end. Kevin put the boat in reverse. Bryce stripped some line of the spinning reel, cut it, and tied it on to the larger rod in amazing time and the fight was back on. After another 1 1/2 hours, we finally landed a 200-pound big eye. What an amazing feat with all credit going to Captain Bryce's amazing ability to stay calm and get the job done under intense pressure. It was an unbelievable end to a 5 hour war.



It was now 9am and we started trolling and the yellowfin bite was on fire. We were now into larger yellows from 60 to 85-pounds 3 at a time. We even released another white marlin. We filled our coolers and headed back to the barn. We had planned a double overnighter but since the boat was stuffed with fish we ended 1 day early. That's a good problem to have. Final tally was 15 yellows to 85-pounds, 6 mahi to 25-pounds, a 200-pound bigeye, 2 white marlin (released) and about a dozen small yellows (released).



Special thanks to Paul for helping put this trip together and Captain Bryce's amazing job as always. All tackle, bait and gear were from White Water Outfitters in Hampton Bays. "


Here are are few pics:
Me and ADDfishing with the Big eye:


Big eye with the spinning rod it was caught on:


Joe and Chris with a pair of yellows:

[Squidnation]

hell of a day snapp

[johnnywalker]

And an Eyeball on the spin set up is cool; fight must have been a donnybrook!

[WHO PUGH]

My captain i fish with down here in florida used to charter on the Hudson grounds. He did something very similar on a Big-Eye when we were fishing out of OBX!---What amazing battle and story! Those NJersey/NE- captains truly know how to do it! No way we would have gotten that Bigeye up there and I probably think u feel the same! Way to go!!

[Jaydog]

I'm officially jealous! Nice work

[Snapp]

And an Eyeball on the spin set up is cool; fight must have been a donnybrook!

swapping the line from the spinner when we found it was broke to a conventional was pretty intense and I was only watching from the tower!!

[WAHOONBOX]

GREAT STORY AND PHOTOS! THANKS FOR SHARING WITH US.

[jtocean]

That was a slaughterfest haus! Thanks for sharing! Great report. I would love to fish the Hudson sometime.

[paul708]

just saw this.
great trip.
hope to see some more good reports.

[HOLWACHAGOT]

Fabulous day. Good stuff getting the eyeball in the box. Appreciate you sharing the report.
Holwachagot