Canyon Runner Tuna overnighter 6/27-6/28- 21 bluefin to 80

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Captains Justin Nighan, Phil Dulanie and Mark DeBlasio took a slow ride out to the Toms Canyon with the Frank Bolstead charter from Philadelphia into a big swell from the storm off the Carolinas and a 15 knot SE wind on top of it so they did not start the overnighter off on the troll until 4pm. They found that the break that was offshore last week had moved in up on the edge and the area was loaded with bait. They worked the hell out of the area without a bite. They did not want to leave great signs but with no fish by 6pm they had to continue to look around and got their first bite around 7pm. The fish came up on a Canyon Runner Green Machine Spreader Bar and after they stuck it with the gaff they thought they had their 47+ inch fish which would mean 3 fish for the charter to take but this 65 pounder only measured 46 inches. They worked that are for a while and then moved inshore for a night of sharking and had a few more bites putting a nice 40 pounder in the boat on a 6 inch rainbow spreader bar and missed a couple more fish. Sharking at night saw 6 huge blue sharks caught and released. Again no makos came to the boat. Up on the troll in the morning they are starting to get into the smaller bluefin in the 25-35 pound class and began to really put a beating on the fish. From 6am to Noon they brought another 19 fish to the boat. Again the bars were huge for us and we ended up trolling 5 bars the entire trip. We usually only troll 3 but we seem to be pulling bigger fish on the bars as the average bluefin was around 30 pounds. We also added what may be are new hot bar to the pattern. Capt. Mark DeBlasio has had huge success over the years with zuchini colored squid bars so we added this to the pattern down the middle off the long rigger. We used a bar with 9 inch squid as that was all we had on the boat. Well as soon as this went into the water it was the only bar the tuna wanted. In fact, the second fish on it was a nice 49" 80 pound bluefin to make 3 keepers for the day. The final fish that came to this bar was a huge threasher that tried to rip it to shreds with its tail.
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