Canyon Tuna - Big Jamaica

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Canyon Tuna
The Thursday/Friday trip had some pretty good action.
We started the trip trying for tuna.
There was plenty of life with bait fish, whales, and dolphin.
We made one drift but the tuna were not ready to bite.
We switched over to Mahi-Mahi and just like our last trip it was "Mahi-Maddness!
We caught plenty of mahi up to 20lbs.
We then set up for tuna and it wasn't long before Gary Yearwood landed a 75lb yellowfin.
We made several drifts and had several hook-ups each time but the large big eyes were hard to handle.
We wound up landing 4 big eyes from 100lbs to 200lbs.
We also landed a few yellowfin from 70 to 100lbs.
After that we still read fish but the bite turned off.
In the morning we made another drift and caught several tilefish.
Gary Yearwood from Staten Island NY landed 2 nice yellowfin.
Art Haluszka from Edison NJ caught two big eyes. The largest 200lbs. I was able to jig a 110lb bigeye when I took over the chunking duty while we were fighting 4 fish.

That one fell prey to the old standby 8oz chrome hammered jig.
Between that fish and the yellowfin generously donated by Gary every one went home with some tuna to add to their catch of mahi-mahi.
Fishing should continue to improve.
The water temperature is 81 to 81.8 degrees in the canyon.
After this weekend the big Jamaica is scheduled to sail to the Canyon at 7AM every Tuesday and Thursday for a 31hr trip.
22hr trips depart every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at 5PM.
For reservation information call 732 528 5014.