Capt. Mark DeCabia and Peter Rowan had the Jeff Porello charter out on the Ritchie on Thursday with Jeff s son Matt along for the ride and what a ride it was. The highlight though was when a white marlin fell for a lure and was fought to the boat for the release by Matt Porello getting a marlin to his credit before his dad.
Arriving at the west wall at 2pm on Sunday they got their first bite trolling the Zajac pattern of 6 Canyon Runner Spreader Bars including mostly Mini-mamba in blue silver and min-green machine bars. They quickly put 10 yellowfin in the boat after going 4 for 4 and 6 for 6 where all the fishing came on the bars.
The action was again almost entirely on Canyon Runner bars as they trolled up to 6 on this trip including mostly rainbow and regular green machine bars. We ve never really trolled more than 4 bars at once for any stretch of time but for some reason for the past 4 or 5 trips that is all the fish want so that is what we are giving them unfortunately we ve got 150 12-packs of ballyhoo that are going to go to waste if they don t start eating the meat.
Trolling the Zajac pattern which consisted of 7 Canyon Runners spreader bars since almost all the fish lately are coming on these (4 off the riggers one off the Center riggers and 2 long flats off the tips of the rods) their first shot was a five bagger. All 5 fish fell for Canyon Runner squid and green machine spreader bars.
Capt. Mark DeBlasio, Mike Zajac and Peter Doran took out 5 members of the armed forces in a trip arranged by Jason Brooks and Adam LaRosa to bring out for free members of the armed forces that either served in OIF or OEF. We struggled to get this trip in due to bad weather and as such choose to wait out the wind and leave the dock at 6am on July 4 for just a day trolling trip.
The 48' Canyon Runner finally got back on Wednesday, July 2 for our 11th canyon trip of the season so far. We were sitting at the dock for 5 days with some bad weather but mostly bad forecasts and were itching to get back out there with the fishing being the best we ve ever seen in June.
They were sitting on 3 fish right up until 2pm when they were covered up with 8 nice 40-70 pound yellowfin screaming drag. Capt. Phil tried trolling a little faster today and that is when the 7 bagger came in at an almost 8 knot troll.
Capt. Mark DeBlasio and Peter Doran took out the Jim Kelly charter on the 48 Canyon Runner on Wednesday for a day troll and we decided to leave the Wilmington Canyon aside for now as 105 mile runs are not in the cards if we think we can catch closer - and boy were we right. The Canyon Runner spreader bars ruled the day today as Capt. Mark ran 5 of them and almost all the bites were on the bars.
Phil Dulanie and DeCabia got back to the dock with the 48' Canyon Runner on Monday Tuesday and were once again loaded with yellowfin. As soon as they got there Phil had 3 shots of nicer fish and put 8 in the boat before dark.
We set up at the triple wrecks and right on schedule (as predicted by Capt. DeBlasio) we had our mako bite - a small one but nice enough to put in the boat for the first fish to hit the deck of the Ritchie Howell. With one mako in the boat our day was over and we ran down south towards the Lindenchol Spencer area and met up with Capt. Phil on the 48' Canyon Runner and joined him in a nice pick of fish.
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