July 3 – Capt Mark DeBlasio and Capt. Phil Dulanie had a combined 2 boat charter with Carl Bloomfield and crew on Tuesday July 3. Again it was a struggle. Working everywhere within, inshore, offshore of the Lindenchol canyon and 5 miles north and south had produce all of one bite for the Hooked Up 2 on 40 pound yellowfin caught off the 500 fathom line just north of the Lindenchol by 9am. Capt. Mark caught these fish on naked split billed ballyhoo. Trolling the rest of the morning and deep into the afternoon produced one more bite of 3 yellowfin and all of those were put in the boat. The first yellowfin took a new spreader bar we've just started using which deploys 12 inch squid - this one was purple/black. The other two yellowfin took ballyhoo. They trolled until almost 4pm and that was it for the dead plus one mahi. The Canyon Runner worked all the same areas pulling all types of bars, ballys, lures, daisy chains and never got a bite. 12 other boats in the area only caught one other tuna that we know about and a fleet in the Spencer Canyon of 5 or 6 boats completely struck out.