Capt Kobey ran the boat on today s trip along with our normal mates Vinny and Ray. I have posted in the past that often the best day troll bite of the whole season happens in June and it certainly was true on today s trip.

Found some quality stripers the last few trips on the Hooked Up II trolling the inshore lumps It has been tough fishing the last few days compared to last week when we were catching up to 16 or more stripers per trip with many of them nice size keepers. At the present time this is the way it has been for us the last 3 trips and we would have liked a few more keepers but we were glad we caught what we did considering how the striper fishing has slowed down from a week or so.

This makes 6 straight trips where we have boated at least one Big Eye, fishing 3 different canyons and on some of the trips we had great night chunking with 20 or more smaller Yellowfins when we did overnight trips. I anticipate some great night chunking on Yellowfins to start up in our local canyons any day now to go along with great Big Eye bite the last few weeks.

Well the trip ended half way through the night as we had so many different species of sharks eating all our chunks and tuna baits within seconds of putting them out. Bottom line it was another fine trip and as I mention in my previous posts doing a 24 hour overnight trip down to the Washington Canyon is providing some of the finest Big Eye fishing in years and well worth the extra time and expense it takes to make the 90 plus mile run.

On today s (Saturday July 27) open boat trip everything came together about as good as I could have hoped for. It worked out pretty well for us on today s trip and from the reports I got all day we were definitely one of the more successful boats fishing inshore of the canyons.