Capt. Mark DeCabia and Captain Mike Zajac took the Tom Biliecki charter out on Tuesday to Wednesday and decided to look back at the Hudson Canyon and a great temperature break coming into the 100-square - bad choice. So they worked down to the Toms Canyon and picked one 40 yellowfin during the entire afternoon troll.
They ran right back to the Spencer Canyon and worked the southeast corner down to the northeast corner of the Wilmington. 5 miles north of the northeast corner of the Wilmington around 8am and from 8am to 2pm had 7 big yellowfin in the 50-70 pound class.
Canyon Runner spreader bars and ballyhoo produced the best. But the biggest surprise on the trip was a 70 white marlin that ate a Canyon Runner Green Machine spreader bar and was released after a short fight.
To keep the tuna fishermen happy we trolled the west wall for 3 hours picking a couple small yellowfin but that was it. A couple hours later we had a white lit up in the spread but she did not even attempt to eat a bait.
Night time was another story as they keep busy on the sharks all night. They picked 4 brown sharks, a big hammerhead, a small mako and the last rod in the water accounted for our 23rd mako of the year as a 150 pounder was put in the boat.
They worked down to 43015 where they had a 5 bagger of all 20-40 pound yellowfin and turned around and nailed another 30 pounds - this was all at 7 30am. They did not get another bite until 3pm where they worked into the Toms Canyon then inshore where they found the best life of the trip.
Trolling in the early afternoon did not do too much but the fish came up around 6pm and from 6pm to 9pm they troll 25 yellowfin. Up on the troll in the morning they got the bite they were looking as a big-eye exploded on the lure trolled between the two Canyon Runner spreader bars but it never came tight.
5 big-eyes were caught Sunday among 15 or 20 boats but not us. They got up on the troll early Monday morning for a few quick hours on the troll but no picked a big-eye on Monday so they came home.
On Thursday they trolled 30 yellowfin on Canyon Runner squid spreader bars, jets, tuna clones and ballyohoo. You see Capt. Mark has been experimenting with a long line circle hook with a trace of wire (no one else we know even long liners combine long line circle hooks with wire) and this mako had the hook still in the corner of its mouth for last week (almost rusted out).
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