2007-08-04 Damien Romeo Gets His Big-Eye --- CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Capt. Phil Dulanie and Capt. Mark DeCabia took out Damien Romeo for a day troll Saturday. The only goal of the trip was to try to land a big-eye. Damien does a whole bunch of trips with us every year and was committed to either catch nothing or catch a big-eye on this trip so we went back to the Hudson Canyon where we hooked 5 this week alone. Hopeful that they were still there we prayed Damien would get his shot. Now this is unbelievable but they actually got another big-eye Saturday on a day when we were actually targeting big-eyes. I have written articles about never ever trying to do this, that targeting big-eyes is the easiest way to spoil a productive canyon trip. I still stand by that as it was the only fish they got in the boat but on this trip with this gentleman that one fish is worth 100 yellowfin. Congratulations Damien - this one was every bit of 150 pounds and ate a 9" Canyon Runner Rainbow squid on the long ringer. They put it in the boat and came home early.

2007-08-03 - Dean Friedman Canyon Charter Goes 2 for 3 on Big-Eyes and Gets a Yellowfin
Capt. Phil Dulanie and Capt. Mark DeCabia had the Dean Friedman charter out Thursday to Friday for an overnighter and headed right back to the Hudson Canyon in search of a little better bite. Unfortunately the trolling for yellowfin keeps slowing down in the Hudson and all they did Thrusday afternoon was one small yellowfin and a few mahi. The yellowfin was trolled on a ballyhoo. They set up on the chunk right and did nothing at night. Up on the troll in the morning they worked back up to the bombs waiting for a miracle and it came when a wolf-pack of 3 big-eyes piled on the spread and hooked up to two ballyhoo and a zucchini tuna clone. They one on the clone came within 20 wraps of spooling the Penn International 50VSW and dropped off. They fought the other two for 45 minutes and darted both. One of them is around 150 and the other around 200.

2007-08-01 - Joe Scott Canyon Charter Nails 3 Yellowfin and some Mahi
Capt. Phil Dulanie and Capt. Mark DeCabia with mate Mike Zajac had the Joe Scott charter out to the Hudson Canyon with his 4 kids Tuesday to Wednesday and got there late so he went right to the chunk on the drift. They had very little bait but finally had the tuna come thru at 4am and pulled 1 yellowfin despite having fish right in the slick at the back of the boat. Up on the troll in the morning they trolled from north of the bombs down to the west elbow down the letters to the southwest corner back up to the bombs and over to the east elbow and picked two yellowfin. The fish ate 9" and 6" Canyon Runner rainbow squid bars. They are going to troll until 3pm. This report is as of 1pm.

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