Canyon Runner - EPIC Bluefin Fishing - 25 Miles from the Beach

[Canyon Runner]

First - Congratulations to All Those That Nailed Some Great Fish the Past Few Week Out in the Canyons! Way to go Mark and Dean who had a bunch!!

Now, I've not posted anything about our North Carolina Bluefin trips for Spring 2014 out of Pirate's Cove yet as we are almost completely filled up already but I needed to at least let everyone know so no one gets locked out without at least some notice.

Folks - bar none - this is truly EPIC fishing every year. You owe it to yourself to try it once.

We still have a couple days left on our 48 Viking with Capt. Deane Lambros and a few more with our crew on the new 57' A-Salt Weapon and Capt. Dennis Ednee so please reach out to us now if you want a spot. We also just added a third boat because of the high demand but please act fast.

Just email me at adam@canyonrunner.com or call me at 732-272-4445

By the way - if you haven't experienced a NC Bluefin jigging/popping trip with the Canyon Runner Crew then you really need to look into doing it. Look at our past reports and see what truly amazing fishing this is. Fishing only 20-25 miles for the inlet our charters were fighting up to 25 Giant Bluefin per day (over 73") on light tackle almost everyday during the heart of the season!

In 2013 we caught 153 giant tuna in 53 trips up to 700 pounds plus dozens and dozens of 100-150 pounder! If you folks thought that the fishing in the Canyons the last few weeks was amazing - this blows that away!!

And look at a post from Capt. Mark from a couple years ago:

I have not had much time to post as we have fished 10 out of the last 11 days .. over those 10 days we saw anywhere from 5 to 25 bites per day , with the fish responding to the troll, poppers, jigs and even Ronz soft baits ... most days after getting a taste of these big fish on trolling gear, guys were reluctant to battle these beasts on the light gear .. so many days we casted hookless poppers and just watched fish after fish blow up on the popper. We had the Bill Nye group dowen for three days on the 60 early in the week and the boys saw orcas trying to eat their tunas, 350lb bluefins airing out on poppers 20 feet off the stern and released 17 giant bluefin in three days of fishing, as well as keeping one under 73" fish per day ... here are some pics from the week




In the last three days they released at least 35 bluefins over 73”. On Tuesday the first bait in the water on our 48 Viking was engulfed by a 91” 450 pound Bluefin that was fought for 3 hours, tagged and swam away nicely. They then spent the rest of the day jigging and popping captuing another 7 bluefins with an over and under to take home and 5 bluefin over 75” to 80” that were tagged and released.



Meanwhile, our second charter fishing with Capt. Denis Ednee of the A-Salt Weapon did non-stop battle with 70-80” fish during the 3 hours while Capt. Mark was hooked up to the 450 pounder. They release 7 of these fish for their days total.

[Canyon Runner]

Folks - just a heads up going into this big holiday weekend so not sure how many people are on here but - we only have 7 days left open on the A-Salt Weapon for this NC Bluefin fishery in March and 4 days left open on the Canyon Runner. The third boat we added to the fleet might just have one of the best tuna Captain's in NC running it so that is an option but if you want a date you need to call me now - even the third boat is going to fill up fast.

Thanks for all that booked this past week and Happy Holidays to All!!

[SaltLife1980]

Awesome report and amazing pictures!