Last year when my buddy Eric bought his contender 27... He had one goal... He wanted to go from his back yard in Rumson to the Hudson Canyon and catch something that would pull back. A couple runs last year fell short...
Leaving at 4AM today along with Deep Deckhand, Colin, we cleared Sandy hook as first hints of light were on the horizon... As more light grew we pushed the stick father forward... I guess we covered the 89 NM and arrived about 7:45... We had maybe a half dozen others sharing the whole canyon.
We banged the tip and the pots in there for about an hour with nothing before a nice dolphin found the bird bait. No slob but at least a fish...
Working out the west wall we saw some bottle nosed dolphins working a spot hard and went for a look. As the dolphins played at the bow. There was an explosion back on the Offshore Inovations "match the hatch" bar on her maiden swim. Hard nearly half spool on a 50lrs run was nice to hear...
I was thinking big when that went down but the fish tuned out to be a 40-50 ish class tuna... (later at the cleaning table we found striated liver- Big eye)... No slob but a day maker for any exploratory trip.
We continued around the canyon finding more dolphin and signs of life. Heading back along the west wall there was a massive boil on a rigger bait but no bow up... We hammered the area and other boats came to see if they could score as well. In the middle of the pack both riggers went down. One a short run the other nearly a spooling on a tld 25...
The first fish was decked quick... A dandy 30 class yellowfin... The other fish didn't want to play nice nice... Now normally If I bow up multiple headers on tuna they are usually the same class and almost always same species... This fish would throw that out the window...
Minutes turned into several multiples of ten and just about 4:00 our poon dart found its mark on this dandy speciman! (also striated liver)
I looked at the GPS and it showed 97 NM to the hook. Time to go and go we did! Eric had me jack the throttles to 4900 and the 27 contender rocket flew...2:40 to cover those 97 nautical ones was impressive! Thanks for having Colin and I aboard Eric... It was a blast!
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Originally Posted by Deep C
Last year when my buddy Eric bought his contender 27... He had one goal... He wanted to go from his back yard in Rumson to the Hudson Canyon and catch something that would pull back. A couple runs last year fell short...Once in a while you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right
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