Offshore report
 

Left the dock 1030 Sat headed for the fishtails/middle ground area.
lines in ~2p or so Sat in 55 fathoms north of the fish tails (block canyon). Trolled through the tails and headed west, picked up 2 small yellows, a nice mahI (16LB) and a skippy on the flats in Middle grounds.

fished the night off the edge in 8-900ft of water south east of the dip. Quiet night on the drift. One take down (solid) missed that was a good fish, likely decent YFT or big-eye. a few other baits nibbled.

Highlight was at 3am, caught and released a est 7.5-8ft 300+lb hammerhead (first 'exotic' shark for the boat) on a shark bait (SKIPJACK FILLET) put out on a boredom whim. got on the big eye troll at 445 in the dark, nada till ~0630 when we got infested with a mix of short and barely legal yellowfin to ~30lbs. Most released, kept 4 total, pulled the hook on a few.

picked up a few more mahi on the highfliers, dropped a nice bull est 20 on the troll and another on spinning gear. hooked a pissed of 15lb that made a 40yard initial run, but turned out to just be long and lean.

Sounds like the bite was in eastern atlantis, oh well.

Nice Night shot of the Hammer. Congrats on your first one.

Nice trip. I love august offshore. You never know what the fishing Gods have in store for you. Could be 15# mahi or could be something so big it could swallow your boat.

Thanks guys.
tough to get a really good boat side shot when the crew is me and my father (Tautog01). I was on the rod, and he was trying to snap pics while it circled boat side before we could wire it.

Fishing with all our friends...

Nice report and cool pic of the hammerhead.

sounds like a cool trip. someday i'd like to try a canyon run.

good report.

Nice going Bryan. One these days I'll get enough crew and $$ together to go again.

Nice report Brian.

Vey nice. Canyon trips are always special.

Back out Sunday for a long day trip if the weather holds.

Go get em...post em up:)

Checking the Satellite. temps and headed out around midnight to be on the troll before 5a.

No report.
Long story.

Come on now Bryan, fess up!

Mike:
Just saw this.
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