Just finished up three days in Venice and the fishing continues to be CRAZY
GOOD!!
Friday we had a mixed crew, but most of them were from Miss. These
guys were a ball and have fished in Venice lot's, but they were amazed when we
got to the lump to see the fishing better than any time they had been before.
The lines never stopped screaming and it was always something different pulling
on them. We wound up with a limit of big AJ's, a mess of bee-liners, three Yellows 40-80lbs
and too many Blackfin to count. Crazy thing is that during most of the day we
had a school of chicken dolphin and ballyhoo around us?
Saturday we had a young
man with his dad and grand dad with him. This family has also fished with us
before so they were used to what Venice has to offer. Or at least they thought
they new what to expect that is untill we pulled up to a shrimp boat?
Yep,
shrimp boats this time of year? At any rate these guys went to work on the
insane numbers of Blackfin in the water, and in no time the boat looked like a
slaughter house!
At one point two lines got cut off and I was thinking it's
kind of weird with Kings behind a shrimp boat then Paul, the young man hooked
one of the culprits. A BIG FAT Wahoo!!!
We finished the day with 27 Blacks, a
few peanut Yellows and a nice Hooter.
Sunday we had another experienced
crew from NY and Washington. Same deal, head out to the secret spot and run
across another shrimp boat. Lines in then water and lines start screaming. Then
we saw some BIG Yellows in or slick and managed to hook one of them. fought him
for the best part of an hour. everyone on the boat had a turn with him at least
once, and I think the rod made it's way around twice. Anyway we finally stick a
nice Yellow about 130lb. The shrimp boat is out of site, but the fish are still
under us!! Crazy! We put more lines in the water and can't seem to manage
anything but Blacks so we decide to make or way to the lump. We made one drift
and picked up another nice Yellow and during the fight a small Marlin just starts swimming around our boat. We
tried to feed him some chunks, but he just wasn't interested. With no room in
the ice holes for fish we headed for a Wahoo spot to top off the day. Capt Eddie
Burger had beaten us to the spot and was already hooked up so out go the shacky
baits and round and round we go, and nada. About 30 minutes later Capt Eddy
calls and says you gota come see this. Turns out the fish Eddy hooked was no
Wahoo. it was a 176 lb Yellow he had hooked on an X-Rap!?! The only thing
crazier than that was that he had only hooked it with one hook through the upper
lip?!?! I don't know how he gets through airport security with all those horse
shoes stuck up his A#@.
We pointed Poco Loco North and headed for
home.
The fishing has REALLY been CRAZY GOOD lately. If you want in on some
of the action give us a call.
Capt Jerry Allen
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