Capt. Mark DeBlasio and Mike Zajac took the Nick Ruggiero charter from Brooklyn out and started the day trolling the tip of the Toms. They missed an earlier bite and with no signs of life decided to troll up the edge towards the Hudson. On the way they picked one fish in between but by 8:30 pm after 7 hours of trolling that is all they had. That all changed at 9:15pm in the dark when they hooked up to an 8-bagger. With limited visiability the odds were against them but they still managed 5 nice 60 pound yellowfin. The night bite was uneventful but in the morning up on the troll on the West Wall of the Hudson they started to put together a solid pick.
They deployed 4 Canyon Runner Spreader bars included rainbow Green Machine bars and Purple/Black squid bars and got almost all their bites on the bars. Working 76 degree water in 500 feet they boated a total of 20 yellowfin keeping 18. All the yellowfin were 35-80 pounds with two 20 pounders that were released.
