Canyon Runner with Capt. Phil Dulanie and Capt. Mark DeCabia left Manasquan at 11pm Wednesday with the Damien Romeo charter and got down to the Baltimore right where they finished off Tuesday but the water had move out a little. They pulled one small yellowfin there and then found the water off the bank at 200 fathoms where they went 3 for 3 on the bigger 50-75 pound yellowfin. Every single fish came on a 9 inch squid spreader bar with two on Zuccihini and two on Rainbow. They were trolling 4 bars to off the riggers and green machines and tuna clones and ballyhoo on the other baits. The set up in 72 degree water to start swording and sharking at 10pm.

The night bite for Capt. Phil had him releasing one small mako and jumping off a bigger one. First bite this morning at back in at 150 fathoms was a nice big-eye tuna they fought for 35 minutes and broke him off 30 feet from the boat 5 feet from throwing the harpoon. The morning bite started at 5am and lasted until 10am. They boated 6 more yellowfin in the 40-50 pound class and 2 40 pound bluefin releasing one. The fish that morning ate ballyhoo and Green Machine spreader bars and all the action moved over to the west wall of the Baltimore in 100 fathoms. Again the key was staying in the 68-70 degree water.

What they indicated was that there is a huge body of fish out there as they actually had over 30 bites on the troll this morning. The fish however were biting short and screaming off drag and then just dropping off or pulling hooks. The actually saw schools of 4 or 5 yellowfin following the bars for 100s of yards boiling lazyily at the baits 3, 4, 5, times before getting hooked. And one last thing we\'ve don\'t often see - when they had the bluefin along side to release it they slowed to a stop to pull the fish out and when the waked cleanup they saw a school of 100 tuna down 20 feet under the boat following the tuna which was hooked on a green machine bar which the lures on the arms probably attracted the tuna.

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