Offshore Yellowfin Tuna Fishing at Hydrographer Canyon
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- It still boggles my mind that it's now possible to do a day trip to the Northeast Canyons, which are located about 100 miles south/southeast of Cape Cod & the Islands.
As long as the wind is calm a trip to the canyons takes about 3.5 hours. For a day trip, this means leaving the dock very early, while it's still dark.
For this trip, we departed the dock last week on July 17th at the odd hour of 2:45am, for yellowfin tuna fishing at Hydrographer Canyon.
Onboard for this trip were myfishingcapecod.com members Ted and Kurt Saraceno, along with their friend Rob (who's also a member of MFCC). Thank you again fellas for inviting me along on this trip!
There was a chop on the water as we made our way across Nantucket Sound, south through Muskeget Channel, and into the waters located west of the famed and dangerous Nantucket Shoals.
I have always been fascinated by this area, because of its constantly shifting sands, changing depths and dangerous shoals. What a nightmare this area must of been for sailors back in the day.
We cruised through the deep water located west of the shoals, and I noticed the water temperature was a chilly 56 degrees. For comparison, elsewhere on Cape right now the water temperature is in the 70s.
The cold water is most likely due strong currents and upwelling, which brings cold water from the deep, up towards the surface. This cold water can help create dense fog, and in fact on the way home through this area, we battled our way through a 50 mile fog bank.
The voyage to Hydrographer Canyon took just over 3 hours, but time flies when you are traveling on the water. You just never know what you may see!
On the way out we saw fishing trawlers, dolphins and a large tanker.
There was a fresh breeze blowing out of the southwest at about 20 knots and seas were choppy but still very fish-able.
We all worked together to set what I believe was a 9 rod spread. We ran 3 lines off the port outrigger and another 3 lines off the starboard.
Then we set an additional 3 "flat" lines which were fish closer to the stern. We staggered the lures and bars at different distances away from the boat.
Life was abound. Right off the bat we began to see flying fish, and there were plenty of shearwaters cruising about.
The most impressive sight were dolphins crashing and playing about on the surface.
The first bite was very expected, basically anticipated, by everyone onboard. The reason being was that a pod of small whales (or very large dolphins) appeared just off the stern.
Yellowfin tuna will often travel and feed alongside whales and dolphins, so we all held our breath, hoping that would be the case. Sure enough, about 30 seconds later a big tuna came hurdling to the surface and exploded on the green Chatter Bait spreader bar!
My heart was racing as I hustled to clear lines as quickly as possible.
Kurt jumped on the first rod which was getting dumped by a nice tuna, and Rob jumped on the second rod, which had also gotten smashed by a big fish.
Unfortunately Rob's fish got away due to a faulty factory crimp job. Now the pressure had mounted even more to successfully boat Kurt's fish.
After a great fight it was time to leader and gaff the tuna. Kurt's dad Ted leadered the fish up to the surface, and I was able to plant the gaff just behind the tuna's head.
24 hours before our trip, in the same exact area that we were fishing, captain Phil and crew from the Goose Hummock Shops caught dozens of yellowfin tuna, four bigeye tuna, and even a billfish.
However, a lot can change within one day, and despite our best efforts we were not able to locate any more gamefish. We trolled for another three hours, seeing plenty more dolphins and fly fish, but no more tuna.
Regardless, just the experience of fishing 100 miles offshore is memorable. Catching fish is the icing on the cake, and I am very grateful we got that one yellowfin to the boat.
Thanks again to the MFCC members Ted and Kurt Saraceno for inviting me onboard their 36' Yellowfin The Rumble.
And best of luck to you if you are able to get out fishing this week. Summertime on Cape Cod usually doesn't last very long, so I hope you are able to make the most of this awesome time of year!
Tight lines 🎣
Ryan
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Awesome video
Glad you liked it, and thanks for watching!
Cool video I really liked the play by play of of letting out all the lines and 3 position out rigger's description, that usually gets edited out.👍
Glad it was helpful!
Awesome video! When are you fishing next?
I was just out there last night, fishing for striped bass 🎣
@@MyFishingCapeCod Sick dude! You should upload your videos to our Campfire platform. It is an online outdoor video sharing community. This months contest is for fly fishing! Check it out here: www.outsidetvcampfire.com/contest/about/august19campfirecontest
I dont like the idea of a rubberband connected to the rigger. You cant control the lure, can't let it out more or bring it in more while in the rigger!
Great video I plan to take a charter from cape cod or surrounding area with 3 adults and 2 teenagers next month I would like to get tuna. I noticed some recommendations on your website. Is there a boat that you would recommend more for my group of novices Is there anything I should be aware of or understand as this is a first time. Keep up the videos they are inspiring
Glad you enjoy the videos! Sounds like a fun trip you have planned! I would recommend giving my friend captain Steve Leary a call 👉 myfishingcapecod.com/steve-leary-2/
Sorry, I was just being a dock I guess, great video bro
Thanks bud! 🙌🏻
You ever want to go snapper and grouper fishing in south Florida get at me. Smokinfish420@gmail.com, always got room on the boat!
Matthew Hoffman ok maybe I will 🤔
How offshore where you?
We were about 100 miles SSE of Cape Cod 🎣
What speed were you able to travel back at in the fog section?
I don't really remember Morgan, but we probably managed to cruise at around 18mph, but as soon as anything came on the radar we backed off.
Way better if you didn't give the monotone play by play
Ok no worries Matt, I suppose some folks like the narration, and some don't ✌🏻