With 10 canyon trips already under our belts this June we are starting to get well dialed in to what is going on offshore. On Monday-Tuesday of this week we were able to take advantage of a bunch of patterns quickly developing and put another solid catch together for out charters.

On the 48 “Canyon Runner” Capts. Mark Jankowski and Hook Leconey with mate Ryan DiBaggio in the pit put an open boat trip (we now run at least one open boat trip a week but all are booked up well in advance so if anyone is interested in one of these please call or email now as the first available are not until later July). Leaving Manasquan Inlet at 3:30pm as they just got back from the canyon earlier that day, they knew they wouldn’t have time to make the edge to troll so they stopped in the eastern end of the Mud Hole as soon as they saw signs of life and quickly boated a nice 80 pound Bluefin. With all that life there they decided to shark for the night and had a ton of action with blue sharks, browns and duskys but no makos.

Around 2am they steamed off to the Hudson Canyon to make it by day break as Capt. DeBlasio had marked big-eyes there the day before and they wanted to see if they would be on the feed. They were. At around 5am they hooked up on a Canyon Runner Rainbow Mini-Green Machine Bar (by far our favorite color combo for big-eyes the last 4 years). They were on a Penn International 50VSW and made quick work of the fish with Ryan DiBaggio sinking the harpoon less than an hour after hook up. The fish was a skinny 71 inch fish and weighed in a t 214 back at the dock.

They continued to work the area for hours as they constantly marked fish – plus the boat next to them hooked a double header and caught both (congratulations guys!!!). However, no more bites were coming. They also found the yellowfin caught there Sunday-Monday had moved so they decided to go tile fishing. The bottom bite was solid with a dozen nice fish in an hour. With weary arms they choose to run inshore on the way home to try once more for Mr. Mako but struck out on them while catching a few more blue sharks and missing a thresher.

On the 60’ Ritchie Howell “Canyon Runner”, Capts. Mike Zajac, Joe Miele, Deanne Lambros had the Joe Terranova charter out Monday-Tuesday and had an early departure getting them to the Hudson Canyon before Noon. They immediately had a nice 50 pound yellowfin in the boat and quickly thereafter boated a second. 6 more hours of the afternoon troll produced nothing so a vote was taken to really target makos and back inshore to the 40 fathom line they ran. Good choice. Their night was spent with 20 blue sharks released and a nice 170 pound mako dead in the boat.

Up on the troll in the morning into the Chicken Canyon area they boated a nice Bluefin very early in the day but spent the rest of it looking at pods of Bluefin all over the surface but they couldn’t get them to bite again. They ran home at 10am so perhaps if they stayed longer they might have caught a few more.