canyon reports -

[Pennsy Guy]

Originally Posted by BCinerie

How far is far? An extra 50 miles ?

Of course that's reduced time at the rail and a fuel surcharge---with no guarantee of catching....just sayin'.......

[BCinerie]

Gotta fish where they are. Or at least try.

[laketrout]

Not like it use to be Joe..

Damian

[Pennsy Guy]

Originally Posted by laketrout

Not like it use to be Joe..

Damian

Totally agree, not like it was up through the 90's.....

[Short Cast]

Was on a non sponsor trip Tuesday-Wednesday. There is so much red squid in the Hudson you can't get bait though them for long after 10 min. the rod tip would tell you change bait as you could see the squid hit the bait. Live squid lasted a little longer & if you needed a new bait all you had to do was drop the squid jig down wait 30 seconds for the hit & reel up a new bait with ten others following him up. Watch one guy fill half a bushel basket full with 1 jig in less than an hour. If they are there they are too well fed to bite. but mostly it was blue screen fishing.

[tunajoe]

any word out there? it looks completely un-fishable for the next 3-4 days. i was supposed to head out on a private 6 pack out of Lewe's Delaware but looks like that is getting postponed.

[Pennsy Guy]

Originally Posted by tunajoe

any word out there? it looks completely un-fishable for the next 3-4 days. i was supposed to head out on a private 6 pack out of Lewe's Delaware but looks like that is getting postponed.

Feel for you Joe, wish the fan would turn off or at least go on low, low speed.....
Don't remember, you on Wednesday's 36?

[AVA67]

Sorry for the late report, but I didn't get home until late yesterday, and then had to work all day today.
I was on the Non-sponser 30 hour Tuesday/Wednesday. Ride out was nice and gentle with a bit of leftover swell. We spent the first 5 or so hours pot hopping and had some down right silly mahi fishing. Every pot was loaded up, some they chewed very well on, some not so well, but about 4:00 we hit the mother load of fish that wanted to chew. At times it seemed like the entire boat was hooked up, mostly smaller fish with just a few gaffer's mixed in, but if you were at all paying attention you had your limit of 10 with no problem. They bit the bucktail well, but most people were fishing chunks.
We went deep at sunset and with the great conditions the boat elected to drift the deep rather than anchor. Shortly after stopping 50lb class yellow was boated and everyone was hoping it was the start of good night...it was not meant to be. Throughout the night a few more larger class yellows hooked and lost, one other yellow was boated, and blue sharks were making themselves know more than a few times. After an un-eventful sunrise we made a move and even though we found breaking fish on the surface we never got one eat.
At about 9:00am the captain said we were going to try see if we could find the offshore scallop boats on the way in and see if there was anything on them. Around 10:30 we pulled up behind the first dragger and gave it a shot, it took a few minutes to get the first bite, but then we started to pick fish mainly on the jig. Over the next few hours we hit 3 or 4 boats total picking a few tuna on each until the last which was a perfect circumstance. The boat was done dragging, but still shucking and the tuna were just stacked up, and we just drifted a few hundred feet off her starboard side and really got the fish worked up on jigs. At one point I know we had at least 7 or 8 on at once. Unfortunately the fish on the scallop boats were all bluefins (apparently there have been days recently when it was all yellows, and a few days when it was mixed) but for us it was all 35"-45" bluefin. The boat kept the first 3 under brought to the boat, and then we all went into release mode. The crew did an amazing job either J-hooking out jigs with fish still in the water, or lip gaffing them at the stern door for a quick and successful release. I don't know how many fish were released but I am guessing it was in the 25-30 range with a bunch more lost to pulled hooks or broken lines. Over all it was a great trip with a fantastic start and finish with a slow night in between. The boat docked over 4 hours late to give a chance to get in on that bluefin bite.
My father's and my total for the trip was over 40 mahi between us (ORL), my father caught 2 blue sharks during the night chunk, and we each caught 2 bluefins on jigs. I was so happy seeing my father jig his first bluefin ever and he handed the fish on light tackle amazingly well. I was also lucky enough that my first bluefin was the third one to the boat, so we were able to take that fish home.

[2na]

That's a good report for this season. Got to diversify...make lemonade from lemons. Good job. Thanks for reporting.
Shorts

[Pennsy Guy]

Very nice report, gets my blood moving...good for your dad, always great to see that....and for your keeper...thanks for the report.....