sword report from Venice

CaptEddie · 10-01-2006, 12:04 PM

Ran a sword trip and a tuna trip this week. Both were equally productive with a lot of action. Me and Ron took his boat out for swords on wed night and got into a mess of them. First fish to the boat at 8 pm that night. We released him to grow a little bigger. It ate a squid on a blue/green electralume about 150 feet down. While we are resetting our lines the 200 went off and we had our first fish on the purple electralume. It was another pup so we released him as well.

While we are resetting the 200 line it went off again and we had a good fish on this time. After about a 20 minute battle we stuck a nice fat sword in the boat so at least we had some sword steaks for dinner tonight. In the next 30 minutes or so we had two more clean releases on pups and the action was done by 930. The only other action we had was two hammerheads and a brown shark. We caught two on the 100 foot line, one on the 150 and two on the 200.

We caught this little triggerfish on a sabiki.

On sat morning I had Robert Weaver and crew ready to go about 530 in the morning. We made one stop at the boat show and left to go south to another rig. It was a slow but steady pick here with most of the fish coming on chum. One of the highlights of the day was watching a blue marlin try to eat a frenzy popper twice on the same cast. Unfortunatly he missed it both times and never came back. We were using the standard frenzy 6/0 hook in red with a solid hookup to land ratio of five for five. Most of the fish were 55-60 pounds but we did put an 80 pounder in the boat on Jimmies grouper rod. He was certain his grouper rod would do better then my tiagra 30s on standups so we let him use it. After the first fish kicked his butt on it he said no more.

On the way in I passed by a shrimper and picked up a half dozen blackfin on topwater poppers real quick. They were going ballistic on teh frenzy poppers.

Nick C · 10-01-2006, 12:25 PM

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Originally Posted by CaptEddie

Is that a rod in the water??

You guys are CRUSHING them!!!!!!!!! I wanna get over there so bad! Soon!!

CaptEddie · 10-01-2006, 01:03 PM

No ron runs one of his lights off the downrigger and that is the just the downrigger clip and rigging above the light.

Venice Tunaman · 10-01-2006, 02:32 PM

man, awesome report! Life be good.

Boboe · 10-01-2006, 09:25 PM

I'm impressed at your daytime tunas. We were able to catch them in the day with a kite, occasionally while marlin trolling, and in the last hour before dark or after dawn with live baits. We never had yellowfin on poppers like that. That's awesome!

ReelIntubaiter · 10-01-2006, 09:33 PM

Awesome report!

greg1 · 10-01-2006, 11:24 PM

Welcome to the site Eddie.

I need to get down there soon.

CaptEddie · 10-02-2006, 10:27 AM

Daytime tunas here are generally pretty easy to get. That picture of them busting was a cool scene. I probably saw 500 jump in 10 minutes.

Boboe · 10-02-2006, 09:55 PM

They've always remained spooky on us. You get within 200 yards and the carpetbombing stops and they go down. You troll about and get no attention. You try to chunk them up and get nothing. Then you see them carpetbombing again, 1/2 mile away. Rinse, repeat.

e-money · 10-03-2006, 09:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Boboe

They've always remained spooky on us. You get within 200 yards and the carpetbombing stops and they go down. You troll about and get no attention. You try to chunk them up and get nothing. Then you see them carpetbombing again, 1/2 mile away. Rinse, repeat.

Can't speak to Venice, but scenario above plays out on Bahamas yellowfins often.

Our best results have been in "low light' conditions, and fishing lures or baits WWB on fluoro carbon leaders w/o large snap swivels etc.
Gets the blood pumping to see them go !!
I need to get out to Venice to fish w Mike Ellis.

greg1 · 10-04-2006, 06:35 AM

Eddie, is that Ron's boat with the mercury on the back?

I heard his camp didn't survive the storm. Has he gotten a new one?

Hope y'all are bouncing back well.

We moved our boat over to Grande Isle. May leave it there for the whole winter.

Disco Lady · 10-04-2006, 10:24 AM

CONO!!!!!!!! I like the trigger fish... great work Cheers! Capt.

CaptEddie · 10-04-2006, 11:29 AM

Yup thats Rons boats with the Mercurys and no the camp definitly did not survive the storm

on deck · 10-04-2006, 07:54 PM

Great report...Its hard to believe that there is an area south of the snow that has better fishing than we do here in s.fla. By the way...Any ads in the lacal papers looking for a broke fisherman that happens to be a manager? How are the schools there....Oops...gotta go...here comes the wife.

10-01-2006, 12:04 PM	#1 (permalink)
CaptEddie Charter Captain Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Venice La Boat: 36 palmetto Best Catch: 198 pound yf, 83 inch sword, 95 pound wahoo Occupation: Charter boat captain Posts: 141	sword report from Venice Ran a sword trip and a tuna trip this week. Both were equally productive with a lot of action. Me and Ron took his boat out for swords on wed night and got into a mess of them. First fish to the boat at 8 pm that night. We released him to grow a little bigger. It ate a squid on a blue/green electralume about 150 feet down. While we are resetting our lines the 200 went off and we had our first fish on the purple electralume. It was another pup so we released him as well. While we are resetting the 200 line it went off again and we had a good fish on this time. After about a 20 minute battle we stuck a nice fat sword in the boat so at least we had some sword steaks for dinner tonight. In the next 30 minutes or so we had two more clean releases on pups and the action was done by 930. The only other action we had was two hammerheads and a brown shark. We caught two on the 100 foot line, one on the 150 and two on the 200. We caught this little triggerfish on a sabiki. On sat morning I had Robert Weaver and crew ready to go about 530 in the morning. We made one stop at the boat show and left to go south to another rig. It was a slow but steady pick here with most of the fish coming on chum. One of the highlights of the day was watching a blue marlin try to eat a frenzy popper twice on the same cast. Unfortunatly he missed it both times and never came back. We were using the standard frenzy 6/0 hook in red with a solid hookup to land ratio of five for five. Most of the fish were 55-60 pounds but we did put an 80 pounder in the boat on Jimmies grouper rod. He was certain his grouper rod would do better then my tiagra 30s on standups so we let him use it. After the first fish kicked his butt on it he said no more. On the way in I passed by a shrimper and picked up a half dozen blackfin on topwater poppers real quick. They were going ballistic on teh frenzy poppers. __________________ Swordfishing off Venice, La

10-01-2006, 01:03 PM	#3 (permalink)
CaptEddie Charter Captain Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Venice La Boat: 36 palmetto Best Catch: 198 pound yf, 83 inch sword, 95 pound wahoo Occupation: Charter boat captain Posts: 141	No ron runs one of his lights off the downrigger and that is the just the downrigger clip and rigging above the light. __________________ Swordfishing off Venice, La

10-02-2006, 10:27 AM	#8 (permalink)
CaptEddie Charter Captain Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Venice La Boat: 36 palmetto Best Catch: 198 pound yf, 83 inch sword, 95 pound wahoo Occupation: Charter boat captain Posts: 141	Daytime tunas here are generally pretty easy to get. That picture of them busting was a cool scene. I probably saw 500 jump in 10 minutes. __________________ Swordfishing off Venice, La

10-04-2006, 11:29 AM	#13 (permalink)
CaptEddie Charter Captain Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Venice La Boat: 36 palmetto Best Catch: 198 pound yf, 83 inch sword, 95 pound wahoo Occupation: Charter boat captain Posts: 141	Yup thats Rons boats with the Mercurys and no the camp definitly did not survive the storm __________________ Swordfishing off Venice, La

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10-01-2006, 02:32 PM	#4 (permalink)
Venice Tunaman Hooked Up Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Venice Louisiana Posts: 205	man, awesome report! Life be good.

10-01-2006, 09:25 PM	#5 (permalink)
Boboe Hooked Up Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Austin, TX Occupation: Alaskan Fishing Guide, Gulf of Mexico Offshore Crew Boat Captain Posts: 805	I'm impressed at your daytime tunas. We were able to catch them in the day with a kite, occasionally while marlin trolling, and in the last hour before dark or after dawn with live baits. We never had yellowfin on poppers like that. That's awesome!

10-01-2006, 09:33 PM	#6 (permalink)
ReelIntubaiter Hooked Up Join Date: May 2004 Location: Miami Boat: Fishing, Racquetball Occupation: Anesthesiologist Posts: 201	Awesome report!

10-01-2006, 11:24 PM	#7 (permalink)
greg1 Hooked Up Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Charelston, SC Posts: 129	Welcome to the site Eddie. I need to get down there soon.

10-02-2006, 09:55 PM	#9 (permalink)
Boboe Hooked Up Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Austin, TX Occupation: Alaskan Fishing Guide, Gulf of Mexico Offshore Crew Boat Captain Posts: 805	They've always remained spooky on us. You get within 200 yards and the carpetbombing stops and they go down. You troll about and get no attention. You try to chunk them up and get nothing. Then you see them carpetbombing again, 1/2 mile away. Rinse, repeat.

10-04-2006, 06:35 AM	#11 (permalink)
greg1 Hooked Up Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Charelston, SC Posts: 129	Eddie, is that Ron's boat with the mercury on the back? I heard his camp didn't survive the storm. Has he gotten a new one? Hope y'all are bouncing back well. We moved our boat over to Grande Isle. May leave it there for the whole winter.

10-04-2006, 10:24 AM	#12 (permalink)
Disco Lady Grander Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Miami. FL, Boat: 37 Merritt Best Catch: (Blue Marlin)550 Lbs ST. Thomas Occupation: Charter Captain Sometimes... Posts: 3,520	CONO!!!!!!!! I like the trigger fish... great work Cheers! Capt.

10-04-2006, 07:54 PM	#14 (permalink)
on deck Lines In Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: ft lauderdale, fl Boat: fishing Occupation: restaurant manager Posts: 62	Great report...Its hard to believe that there is an area south of the snow that has better fishing than we do here in s.fla. By the way...Any ads in the lacal papers looking for a broke fisherman that happens to be a manager? How are the schools there....Oops...gotta go...here comes the wife.

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