Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Venice Offshore Fishing Report

I seem to have lost more trips than I ran this last week,but I still managed to make it out this past Saturday and the fishing is still OFF THE CHAIN in Venice!!!

The shrimp boats are still in place, but because of the big blow last week most of them are justing getting back offshore which means most of them have no fish on them yet, and that was the case with the ones we hit on the way to the lump. I think we hit two or three boats in clean green water, but no fish under them. Capt Michael Gray was lucky enopugh to find a shrimp boat with fish on it and did very well so wont be long and all the shrimpers should be loaded up again.


Anyway, on to the lump we go and nada, zip, zero! Darn I hate it when that happens! We pointed Poco Loco South and off we went. I elected to go long and don't mind telling you I was a little hesitant because of this spots "hit or miss" tendency as of late, but when we got there we were greated by "skying" Tuna. Gotta love that! The guys we had were all from NY were all very good anglers. Most of them owned there own boats back home and did a lot of Bluefin fishing so it was great to hear of the big fish they get up that way. As I said these guys were great anglers and they wasted no time throwing poppers, and jigging. Both tactics worked well. Once we knew exactly where the fish were located we set up and started chunking. I was confident we were about to sink the boat with fish, but one drift, two drifts, and three drifts later we had no takers. With lots of fish still in the area we swiched top pulling baits, two shacky baits close and two daisy chains with birds on them long and two guys in the front of the boat armed with poppers for the unlucky fish that came too close. We started picking fish up and then sveral other boats showed up and things really slowed so my guys voted to try and make live bait. We spent about 30 minutes trying to make bait and got one. We set back up and sent the live bait out and were going to start chunking as well, but about 45 seconds after the livie hit the water the line satrted screaming! This was a nice solid Yellow, but the guys made short work of him, and in no time he was in the ice hole and we were back trying for more bait. Picked up one more bait and fed him to a hungry Cuda. Darn it I hate that.


We finished up the day with 8 Yellows and headed for the barn feeling pretty good about the day and actually thinking we may be among the top boats of the day, but then I get back to find out Capt Josh Howard had 12, and Eddy Burger had 12 or 13. Way to go guys! Best news is that the fish seem to be pretty much everywhere. Eddy was in close, and several other guys were in close and were oppisite sides of the river, but all did well. Josh and I both went long and the fish were there also.


I can't help but think this is going to be a VERY GOOD year for us in Vnice as things just keep looking better.


Capt Jerry Allen

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