Kitchen Sink Approach

[Deep C]

Finally a window in front of us for Sunday. Looks like its gonna be the last hurrah for this northern season from hell for us...
Canyon really isn't in the cards as for us to reach the fish we'd need a bigger window to first get down to a port farther south then get out to overnight it. Fuelcapacity is what it is and pushing it at this time of year is not prudent...

That leaves the hole to play in... Last shot at it. I'm uloading the tackle box and freezer on em!!!

Throwin the kitchen sink so to speak..Rough weather recently has had reports scarce... The old spots where they were holding are now barren. No intel means that we're gonna have to go on instinct and pick a run of "spots" to work... Ok so that means a cover ground plan to start. Since we have no recent intel on whats there or working gonna tow a wide ranging spread. Then since its our last run of the season. That spread is gonna be a biggun!
Two wwwwb islanders outside... A large splittail back there on the shotgun... Inside is gonna get daisy chains of some ol favorites. Long flats are getting feathers, mediums will sport the spreaders and of course a couple cedars in the wash... I've dialed four "spots" into the GPS for that spread...

I'm hoping to find life on that run. If not a half hour run will get us to a line I can hit three more spots. Wherever we find the best marks will be where we set up shop for the drift of hell... Macks, butters, sardines, blues, falsies all goin to get chunked. Sweeten it up with a can of chum and set out a mix...
Two macks and a fillet for jaws, two sardines for school fish. A mack and a live bait in case giants have set up camp. Two guys jiggin and a bottom rod to get a live bait ought to round out the offerins. Lots of work but being the last shot before going south, I don't mind wearing the boys and myself out...

So thats it, gonna throw it all into play... Anything I'm missin?

[RobB]

Im doing the same in the monster ledge area. just stay out of my slick

[bigfish4me]

Stack em up Deep.......Dont forget the rattles.....gotta love the thrill of the hunt.

[Snapp]

catch em up Paul...

[Deep C]

Im doing the same in the monster ledge area. just stay out of my slick

Step aside there Bobby... We're bigger than ya!

Nomally I'm the deep cheap on chummin but we have mountains of unused bait and chunks to burn... We'll be late arriving... Need to fuel on way out. Would fuel now but blowin us hard in the slip and I don't want the boss to get hurt untying the springs... Colin has that game figured out pretty good... Better safe than sorry....

[Big Jay]

500-600 lb. fish came out of that area recently. I'll be out there working a little south of the generally "liked" areas.

Hook Me Up 30' Albemarle on 68

[Deep C]

Plannin on 3 giant baits in the troll spread and two or three on the drift... Gonna be looking hard at them "old" spots that the boys usually run on past... I know its not twenty five or thirty years ago but those were the places that worked. Don't know of anybody recently banging them. One could be home and we'll be ready...

[Big Jay]

Smaller fish still being caught. Still its the best chance of catching tuna inside the canyons.

Ya never know. Those Canadian and NE fish are filtering down. Boys off Montauk had a 800 lb'r last week.

[Deep C]

I can think of two spots off the top of my head that you used to need a shoe horn to get in there that I havn't seen a single boat on this season... Then theres another general area that I have been finding bait and ass loads of junk fish on that makes no rhyme or reason . I see no structure or anything to hold fish but each time I have been there the last two years there is life. Again nobody working it. Last year my crew worked it at this time of year without me and had a dozen bft and about 40 falsies...
Right now I would take any tuna to call this run successful... Last few have produced everything but. Falsies, skippies, even good dolphin and a lost white. We did have one bite that might have been one but we'll never know... Need just one to call it a season...
Hard to get overly excited though. Right now the wind in the trees outside my room sound like a landing jet hitting the thrust reversers...

[Deep C]

It worked...