Capt. Mark DeCabia and Capt. John Timken had the Dave Miguel charter from Lipinski Landscaping out Wednesday to Thursday and put together one of the better chunking trips of the year. They were on a turn around so they got to the east wall of the Hudson Canyon later in the afternoon and decided to go right to the chunk at 5:30. Maybe that was the key but for whatever reason they had fish the entire night.

The set up 2 sword rods and had action on them all night. The first fish was right around 100 pounds and put in the boat. That was followed by several 25-30 pound yellowfin. Almost all the yellowfin came on hammered diamond jigs with a few on sardines. In between a half dozen yellowfin came the second swords of the night – a nicer fish in the 130 pound class. More yellowfin followed and then around 2pm another sword bite. This one was different. It went through the charter 4 or 5 times before finally being close enough for the Poon. She measured out a 84” and tipped the scale at 270 pounds.

With 12 yellowfin on ice and a few released plus adding the big sword they pulled all but one sword rod out of the water at 3am and waited for sun-up to run home. With the sun fully in the sky the last rod out got bit and another bigger swords came right to the top of the water in the broad day light. This hook pulled shortly into the fight and they came home.