Hudson is Healthy

[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...
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!

[johnseafood]

Yea its alittle big eye, you can tell by how it carrys its body full all the way back and the top and bottom fins are almost white all the way to the tips. Look at the eye as well its clear in that pic.

Awesome report deep and glad to see you can catch some tunas

[fountain17]

Very nice report deep c!

don

[POON MAN]

Deep ,,,, HAPPY the Hatch Bait bar raised one for you guy's

Nice job crew

[MASTERBAITER]

Is it common practice to harpoon 60-70 pound tuna?

[Deep C]

It was that or use Erics golf club gaff... I've got it and wanted to give it a work out for practice...Sword season isn't too far off...

[flatbottom]

Way to go guys !
Thanks for the big eye pics

[gradywhite273]

pretty yellowfin deep

[Deep C]

Deep ,,,, HAPPY the Hatch Bait bar raised one for you guy's

Nice job crew

Like I said that fish hammered it... Looked good felt good worked good... I would have thought much bigger than it turned out to be the way it ran... Must have been vitamins in that green water we had today...

[Randy@BayMarine]

You radio snob!!! I ws the light Blue 35 FB... we did not find the Tuners.. but we had a couple nice Dolphin... I know you know all,,, But how do you know Eric? He is a great guy, glad you got his boat bloody for him!! it's about time.