Canyon Runner Tuna Report- 7/15-7/16- 8 yellowfin

[Canyon Runner]

Captains Phil Dulanie and Justin Nighan along with Mike Zajac had the Jim Turcheck charter from Clevland, Ohio out on the Canyon Runner for a Friday-Saturday overnighter and were intending to head to the Dip but a report from Capt. John on the Cisco Kid of yellowfin on the west wall of the Hudson made the take a look around the Letters. They started trolling and saw a dozen pods of tuna on top. The sea was slick calm and the tuna were just rolling on the surface. Finally around 5pm they had a two bagger of 40-45 pound yellowfin and then shortly after went 2 for 3. Those fish ate 2 ballyhoo a blue/white jet and a rainbow squid bar. They did not get another bite and were set up for chunking. They barely drifted the entire night and did not have a touch. This was our first overnighter where we brought flats of butterfish and we chunked 6 flats but nothing was doing yet. Up on the troll in the morning they immediately got a double and then a triple of yellowfin which they put in the boat around 8:15 am and then did not get another touch the rest of the day on the troll. Almost everyone of the tuna bites was in 450-460 feet of water around a ton of bait readings. With the troll bite dead they set up for some tilefish and dropped in 550 feet they put 11 tilefish in the boat in an hour up to 18 pounds.