Canyon Tuna with Mike Terell

Had new customer Mike with son Damien and buddy
Gonzalo from Argentina on board. Had this weekend to
Make the trip happen, Mother Nature gave me a very
Small window yesterday and we Took the shot. Got to the
Canyon after the bite was over due to morning storm,
Had our first bite in 5 minutes boxing a 70lb yellow,
Had some more misses and lost a fish, then things slowed.
Found another body of fish missed a few more and lost
A marlin. Knew I had an hour to get some mahi before the
Weather window slammed shut on me, found tons of mahi
But not sure if approaching front or full moon had them on
Lockjaw so we made the sprint home early.

MRMTC Canyon Trip and Results

Had stellar crew of Dan and Anthony with expert jigger man Dan Bombaci.
Left for an overnight trip starting the trip off with Mahis. At Night chunked and swordfish but no luck. Went trolling but only had small yellowfin and skippies.Began day chunking but no luck, highlight of the day was Dan jigging a white Marlin. Did some more pothopping to end the day with Dan getting our biggest
At 18lbs. Which has us in first place.

            
Jigged white marlin:

Overnight with the Randy Wilson charter

Had Randy out with buddies Tom Carl and Mat. Started out boxing a dozen Mahi
To get the trip started. Soon after went on the troll for the evening mixing up
The spread to target both Marlin and tuna. Had success getting the Marlin to
Come into the spread getting 3 bites missing the first two and jumping off
The third. Set up for a night of chunking after trolling late into the night.
Had one mystery runoff and went on the troll in the morning. Concentrated
On Tuna until the charter said enough and wanted to finish off with Mahi.
Wound up boxing another 20 Mahi to 20lbs.

Canyon Trip with Adam Conley's Crew

Had Adam with buddies Mark Sr and Jr 

And Dan Payet. Made ourway to the southern

Canyons, went on the troll and found the life

Right away, had mahi, skippies and yft bites into

Dark. Set up at night and had thousands of tinker

Mackeral in the lights. No bites on sardines so sabiki'd

The macks and livelined them, had some good bites

Losing a few, then got sharked up for a while, landing

A hammerhead. In the morning had fish on the troll

Right away, bite lasted for a few hours landing half a

Dozen yft, mahi, and our first white marlin of the season.

Midshore Trip with Oscar Carillo

Had Oscar out for a half day tuna trip, left 

The dock and had Dennis point me in the

Zone, had fish on right away getting our 2

Unders asap, soon we got a nice gaffer mahi

Then had a nice lit up White Marlin in the spread

One of my newer crew tried to feed a pitch bait

Whiffed badly, albeit his first time trying a tough

Task. Tried everything to get the over

Way backs and planers but no luck. Went chunking

And jigging no luck, finished off on a wreck with

A pick of pollack and ling.

Canyon Trip with Brian Priest, Marlin-Mahi

Had Brian charter the boat today. Had co-captains Max and Keith to assist on today's adventure. Plan was to get away from the crowd and work the deep and seldom hit canyons to look for Tuna and Billfish. Started the day on a right note getting Andrea's Toy first Marlin, nice fish taped out at 60 inches. Hit a dressed bally. Got our first and only tuna bite of the day getting 4 on to have two come unbuttoned quickly, got the other 2 close to the boat, however at the same time which turned bad. They both got tangled and lost both damn! However, we wound up landing and releasing 2 more white Marlin going 3-3 then, having a huge 500 pound Marlin hit our bally and dump half of a fifty on the first run, then double back and jump us off. Ended the day pot hopping for Mahi. Congrats to Brian on his first Marlin, and to the crew of landing our first, 3 Marlin.

Canyon Trip with the Adam Zion Charter

Had Adam out, with Mark, Monty and his son Ben, trip was originally scheduled for Bluefin, but due to lack of consistent action inshore, and the decent bite offshore we scheduled a day troll. Got to the canyon at dark thirty and had the lines in the water, saw the life whales, birds but no fish. Picked up and ran way down the line to the hot spot, lots of boats working the area with a slow pick at best. Decided to work way away from the fleet, knew I was rolling the dice, but the only way I roll, well 6 hours later still no bites and the fleet 25 miles away is starting a decent pick. Finally we get bit and Adam, Mark, Monty's son work on a very big Yellow or possibly small Bigeye, since it was close to 80 lbs with no sickles, however it brushed against the rub rail and lost her before she met the steel. Went back to the same spot and got bit again, this time Monty put the screws to a nice 55lb yellow. Pounded the area but no more shots, had a lit up White Marlin come into the spread, tried drop backs, and changing direction to re raise the Marlin but it would inspect and fade away, damn! Knew I was running out of time to fill the box, so we pot hopped, hit 3 pots loaded with mahi, but they were very shy only landing 2 chickens today. Decided to tile fish, had a good drift on #'s that have produced my biggest tiles, but no bites just mud ling. Very frustrating day, on the fish, but beautiful day on the water with some great guys.