We can’t say this is our first tuna report of 2010 as we did quite well with medium and giant Bluefin tuna down in Oregon Inlet this April, but it is our first tuna report for New Jersey and that means hopefully another 120 canyon reports coming your way. I say hopefully as that would mean we go back to a normal canyon season where we catch them in the spring, summer and fall – unlike the last two years where it was spring and summer only.

Well we kicked the 2010 canyon season off with one of a dozen charity trips we gave away this year. This one went out to the St. Bernard’s School in NYC and was auctioned off to John Sargent of Manhattan. Capt. Mark DeBlasio took the 48 Viking out of Mansquan Inlet to 1100 fathom of the Hudson Canyon on Friday to find the edge of what is our first gulf stream eddy of the year. He had 64 degree water until he got to the southwest corner of the 1000 fathom mouth where the temp guage jumped to 67.9 degrees and the rods went off.

That first shot say 5 Canyon Runner Spreader Bars get attacked but we only came tight on a purple/black Canyon Runner Squid Bar and a ballyhoo. The fish were quickly boated and were in the 45 pound class. This was a day trolling trip and it was only 6:30am the morning so we were feeling good. Wrong feeling – not another bite the rest of the day.