Venice swording and tuna

[CaptEddie]

I had a group come in last week that wanted to swordfish one night and tuna fish the following day. We left out about 6 pm and went out and set lines in one of the sword spots. At 730 we had a runoff on the 100 foot line. We came tight on him and Gary put a solid sword in the boat after a 30 minute fight. That was pretty much the end of the action for that night although we did miss one later on that night. Just pulled the hooks. We quit swordiing at daylight and went over to a snapper spot and put a quick limit of 16 red snappas in the boat as well as one nice mangrove.

Saturday morning started out in a torrential rainstorm which delayed us about an hour. Bait was easy to make but the fish didnt start off easy. We put our first yellowfin in the boat around noon on a livie. Around one I made the decision to move over to another rig out to the west. Got there and didnt see anything at first. Around 20 minutes into our excursion there we hooked up on a 50 pound yellowfin of which Joe made good work of and put in the box. We picked away at the schoolies picking up another two in the next hour or so before the big momma hit. We knew this fish was special when it hit. She took about 300 yards of line on her first run straight down then just stayed down. Eventually Gary was able to work on her and she came up remarkably easy. When we got color we saw she was tailwrapped which explained the lack of fight. I got a good shot with the harpoon and we put a 140 class fish in the boat in 15 minutes on a 30 with 60 pound leader. We ended this day with five yellowfin and a blackfin.

[freezorburn]

Nice Tuna Capt. How are you guys go for Tuna in florida you day troll or bait?

Here in NJ we chunk at night with Butter fish and troll during the day with spreader bars,Ballyhoo excretra...

[CaptEddie]

Actually I fish out of Louisiana where we mostly slow troll live baits around oil rigs and sight cast to them on spinning tackle and topwater poppers. In the winter time we will anchor up and chunk.

[Venice Tunaman]

AWESOME I would like to join you guys for that dinner

Great work.

[Boboe]

Nice trips and nice fish.

I hate to rain on the parade by saying that that harpoon shot looks pretty bad :/

[CaptEddie]

WEll the tuna was hanging straight up and down in the water upside down so its kinda hard to hit them right when they are tailwrapped. Really a pain to gaff them though cause you cant get the head out the water when you do it and they tend to beat ya up so I did the best I could with an upside down/straight up and down shot.