Winter yellowfin and wahoo off Venice, Louisiana

[captscott]

More good offshore reports coming from Venice, LA, and no one is complaining about the indian summer either..Fish had rested for a nearly a month and the bite reflected it..Capt. Hunter was the first to take advantage of the break in the weather going out with Roger, Frank, Manley and Wayne from TN and they mopped up on the yellowfin..live mullet was the key to 8 yellowfins from 50-110 pounds in 3 hours and Friday was about the same..Hunter had the same crew from Chatanooga and they decided to go wahoo fishing because they had nearly maxed out cooler space from Thursday's adventure..It was a great plan but it backfired..they went wahoo catching and had to go to walmart to buy extra coolers to pack the fish they couldnt give away..hilarious..nice wahoo's too..8 wahoo out of 14 bites with 2 fish under 40 pounds and 4 fish between 60-80 pounds..I took a great picture of Hunter laying down next to his biggest fish and posted it in the pictures page..

Friday I had a crew from Kurz-Hebert in Baton Rouge and we had a ball with the tuna in the 4 hours we fished for them..we used up our only 2 hardtails on an immediate double then went to chumming...this produced 8 fish from 30-100 pounds..last fish came off a live flyer we netted boatside..it didnt last 2 minutes and yieled our best fish of the day a solid 110..we had one fish take two peices of chum and two anglers battled it to the boat with two rods..pretty funny..heard of that happening before but this as my first experience. Caught 11 and went home early; kept 7 fish and gave away 4..Wentto the same areas Saturday but the ammount of pressure fnally caught up with the resource and the bite was off..We picked up 3 fish in 8 drifts early on before the flotilla arrived..had a fourth fish hooked up and on for 20 minutes before loosing it; this a 130-150 class fish we cut off in the rudder while making a do or die effort to gaff a green fish..first big fish we've lost this month and it still hurts today..bite shut off shortly after and by 1130am we ended up leaving for the wahoo grounds..saw 7 boats come an go to the rig we were fishing..never got another bite all day and wished we'd stayed at tuna fishing in hindsight..Hunter's crew caught 11 yellowfin and 5 blackfin all but one fish on butterfly jigs..4 fish were 80-100 pounds the rest schoolies; fishing is great right now..everyone has been off the last 2 days and we'll have a crew out tomorrow with handlines..ought to be pretty funny..last time they came the fish were only 40-60 pounds..they are hoping to bag a 100# plus fish.

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thursday's 12-14-06 tuna haul..

[tunafishin]

Mullets are used as an offshore bait. I know that they are coastal bottom feeders how is it that a pelagic like a tuna feeds on them?

Is it because they'll eat anything thats dead, artificial or alive?