Capts. Mark DeBlasio and Dean Lambros had the Mike Davies charter out to the Hudson Canyon area on Friday to Saturday and immediately got into fish as soon as they found the life. Trolling the flats they picked away at 12 yellowfin from 40-60 pounds almost all of which were picked on either Canyon Runner Spreader Bars or Ballyhoo. They set up for the night bite right where they had them on the troll and had fish under the boat quickly. The action built steadily all night with more and more fish coming into the slick that eventually they stopped chunking and just had out baited hooks. Throughout the night they brought 31 fish to the boat after about 40+ bites. Many of the fish were caught on jigs as well of course on bait. Up on the troll in the morning they were looking for a big-eye bite with big lures and big bars being pulled but all they did was catch more yellowfin. They finished up with 46 yellowfin (more than half released) and every one of these fish were 40 – 65 pounds.

I hate to this in the fear that I might jinx it but maybe, just maybe, we are looking at a traditional chunking season like we use to have. That is, the night action seems to be steadily building as it should – with more than just one boat catching each night is catching. You see, another boat in the area had 10 nice fish and a few others picked away at a few fish. This is actually a better sign than if just my caught 100.

As for us – we’ll be back at it Monday. We have a couple spots on open boat trips on the 48 Viking with Capt. Mark DeBlasio on August 15-16 & 16-17. Cost is $ 725/person.