[captbogan]

The Gambler canyon trip that was chartered by Grumpy's tackle shop of Seaside Mon/Tuesday was a great trip with a good catch of longfin and yellowfin tuna. It was a sporty ride off but, thankfully, Ponytail Mike said to keep plowing through it. Had to take it a little easy so we got onto the west wall around 1:30.

As I was coming back on the anchor, I saw tuna marks on the recorder. The temp jumped to 72.2F (66F inshore). Lots of Sargasso weed. We had our first fish on-and-off within 20 minutes of set.

During the dark we picked slowly at longfin and yellowfins. I was steadily reading fish under the boat anywhere from 50 to 250 feet. Just before day-break, the bite broke lose. Slamming 30 to 50lb longfin and 50 to 80lb yellowfin on jigs and bait. Around 6:30 we hooked into a 150lb-ish blue marlin that parted the line near the boat.

7AM, we hooked into a fish about every 15 minutes. The marks never left my screen. Around 11AM there must have been a shark in the slick, slicing leaders like a weed-whacker.

Everyone did a great job and it was a fun group of guys and gals --true fishermen. Most everyone landed a couple tuna, a couple guys had 4 and two guys struck-out (nothing they did wrong, just happens).

The Gambler is off on a 48 hour canyon safari right now, won't be back till Friday morning. We'll be headed off again on Fri/Sat and Sat/Sun. Still room on some of our weekday trips coming up --don't wait too long. Lots of good water out there and I think we will catch tunas at least till the end of the month.

Availability as of 10/08:
10/20 lite-load (16 pass max) 7 openings (24hrs)
10/22 --48hour (22 pass max) 16 openings
10/29 --36 hour (22 pass max) 17 openings