[fishwon]

I was just wondering ware some of you guys like to set up for the chunk in the canyons. With an eddie, do some of you prefer the warm side of the eddie, or the cold side? Also do you think it's important to set up your drift so you drift over the "structure" or is that aspect not so important. Interested to see what you guys think. Thanks
Lou

 

[Boonebird]

We set up warm cold. If we worked an area that produced some fish on the troll we will not be to far. Also bait. We had a trip last year. The fish finder was red all night. No brainer. It was a bail job all night. I gave the gps cords to a friend who went there while everyone went off the edge he bailed them to. He said he never marked so much bait in his life. It depends on weather water temp fish bait. We set up in some 67 water 2 years ago for a limit of yellows.

 

[asiegel]

I had a really crappy year on the night bite last year regarding yellowfin(about 3 fish per night), but we did the same exact thing we always do - set up in the warm side around 100 fathoms, or on top of bait, where we are marking tuna. Sometimes I think the key is setting up in a spot where the bite was hot the night before. I suspect that's how Canyon Runner gets their night bite going over and over again. We exerimented with moving more, and fishing the cold side, and also deeper water where we sometimes got a few fish & definitely swordfish. Other years we have had great nights too, when the water was cold, or warm but after last year I'm just shrugging my shoulders because I don't think we did anything really wrong. One thing I definitely noticed is that when the tide went slack, we caught fish, don't ask me why.

 

[cantowm]

asiegel wrote:
One thing I definitely noticed is that when the tide went slack, we caught fish, don't ask me why.

Slack tide in the canyons...please explain? I was under the impression there is not a tidal influence in the canyons, only currents induced by the flow of the stream. Do you have a way of predicting currents and slack water? I am not being facetious. I have never noted a ?slack tide? period while chunking and am interested in what you mean by that. Thanks...

 

[asiegel]

The tide goes slack before it changes directions. Watch your drift, or if you are tied up, watch your lines. It rarely runs the same velocity in the same direction for an entire night. Sorry for this short diversion, cantowm: your comment was off the topic.

 

[Boonebird]

current what is that? Is that the orange thing you tie up to at night or the little fish that swim around the little orange things?

This post edited by Boonebird 11:07 AM 07/07/2008