GAMBLER Cayon Report

[captbogan]

The Gambler got in from a 24 hour canyon trip last night.

Co-Capt Greg saw a little temp shot through the cloud cover and we went for it. The temp near the tip was 68F but it quickly shot up to 73.5 near the elbow. I saw some bait marks in that break and we anchored up in 600ft. The seas were comfortable.

Shortly after we came back on the anchor, we had two fish on! We landed one yellowfin and lost the other. Soon after that, we hooked into a big sword, fought him for 30 mins but she broke off.

We had lots of life in the dark. Heavy weed lines, squid, flying fish, triple tails, file fish, and pods of porpoise. We caught mahi off-and-on through the night, up to 25lbs. We fought several more swords in the dark, landing two of them. The biggest was close to 300lbs. But no more tunas.

The Gambler stayed on the hook until 8:30. I spotted 3 squid boats working the east side, so we jumped in the trail of one of them and worked jigs and chunk lines into the slick. No bites.

After 30 mins, we deciced to pot hop for mahi. The wind started to increase but the mahi action could not have been better. Really good action on 4 to 12lbers along with some bar jacks and skip jacks.

Plentiful life out there the whole trip, just a lack of tunas. I was really excited when we had those first two yellowfin right away. I don't know what to think. Sounds like we may be stuck in this week.

[Pennsy Guy]

Thanks for the report Capt. Bob. Maybe things are beginning to pick up. Now, if this blow doesn't mess everything up & the fan goes to low, we can get back out there...I hope, I hope, I hope.