Adam LaRosa has been fishing as long as he could hold a fishing pole on any one of the 35 boats his father, Captain Joseph LaRosa, has owned and operated through the years. At an early age, Adam was capable of running the cockpit and by the age of 12 was a full time summer mate on several charter boats running out of Manasquan Inlet, NJ. The knowledge he gained during those summers, coupled with his father desire to get into the charter fishing business, culminated in the purchase of the first Canyon Runner, a 28' Bertram, put into service as a charter boat in 1984.

Over the years, the Canyon Runner has taken clients offshore over 2,000 times and during those early years, Adam was running the cockpit on most every trip while attending, High School, College and Law School. Upon graduating Law School and passing the New York and New Jersey Bars, he began his career in Manhattan, but still refused to leave the cockpit, managing to mate on 20-30 canyon trips a year.

Fishing the Northeast Canyons for 23 years Adam has logged over 500 trips to the continental shelf between The Dip, Hudson, Toms, Carteret, Linden Cole, Spencer, Wilmington, and Baltimore Canyons. Moreover, he has crewed the Canyon Runner to all of its tournament victories and has been instrumental in molding the Canyon Runner into the premier offshore boat on the East Coast and a top producer of tuna and marlin every time the Canyon Runner heads to the continental shelf. In addition, Adam has authored 17 articles focusing on offshore fishing for the Big Game Fishing Journal. This past winter Adam and the crew of the Canyon Runner developed and delivered 2 major offshore seminars to over 800 people in Atlantic City, NJ and Long Island, NY.

There are only three things that keep Adam from spending every day he is not in the office offshore fishing – his beautiful wife Shari and daughters Arianna and Alexa.