Venice Fishing Reports

Venice Inlet and the Gulf of Mexico - Blackfin Tuna Make a Showing Fishing offshore this week has been pretty good. The kings are still running out in 45' to 55' foot of water, and there have been some reports of black fin tuna action in the 80' to 100' range. If I get booked with more...
Capt. Dave Pinkham - Venice

Venice Inlet and the Gulf of Mexico - Weather Changes Shake Up Fishing The cold fronts that blasted though the end of March sure were packing a punch. With wind gusts at times to upwards of 40 miles per hour, getting caught out on the Gulf of Mexico was the last place that I w more...
Capt. Dave Pinkham - Venice

Venice Inlet and the Gulf of Mexico - Kingfish Moving Up Florida's Westcoast Looks like the annual spring run of king mackerel is cranking up here on Florida’s Southwest Coastline. Over the past week the action west of area beaches has been improving daily with plenty of bait star more...
Capt. Dave Pinkham - Venice

Venice Inlet and the Gulf of Mexico - Arriving Front Excites Gulf Fish Into Feeding It always amazes me when just the slightest change in something as simple as the wind direction will set fish into a feeding mode. To illustrate what I'm talking about I'd like to share the experie more...
Capt. Dave Pinkham - Venice

Venice Inlet and the Gulf of Mexico - Concentrate On The Bottom For Fish Over the next few weeks fishing activity offshore on the Gulf will be geared toward bottom fishing. With water temperatures in the mid-50's most mid-water type fishes should be well south of us by now. This is more...
Capt. Dave Pinkham - Venice

Venice Inlet and the Gulf of Mexico - Indian Summer Brings Gorgeous Conditions on Gulf If you had the pleasure of being out on the Gulf over this past weekend and you hadn't looked at your calendar for a while; you would have never guessed it to be the month of December. Sea condi more...
Capt. Dave Pinkham - Venice

Venice Inlet and the Gulf of Mexico - Approaching Cold Fronts Excite Feeding Frenzy Action on the Gulf was good early in the week. Not only did we do well with some grouper and kingfish aboard my boat, but I also talked with several of the other local fishing captains who said more...
Capt. Dave Pinkham - Venice

Venice Inlet and the Gulf of Mexico - What’s Biting on the Gulf in November? I can hardly believe it’s already November. Seems like October just flew by. I sure hope the gorgeous weather we’ve been having holds for a while. Tell ya what, as pretty as it’s more...
Capt. Dave Pinkham - Venice

Venice Inlet and the Gulf of Mexico - Kingfish Just Offshore Of Venice Beaches This is one of my favorite times of the year. As each day that passes grows a little shorter and the nights longer, the air and water temperatures have starting to cool down, thus opening up all sorts more...
Capt. Dave Pinkham - Venice

Venice Inlet and the Gulf of Mexico - Thanks to Hurricane Gorden the Gulf of Mexico sure got stirred up a bit this week. But honestly other than a few missed days of fishing, the Venice/Englewood area once again got spared from a direct hit. We did spend the better part of Sunday down at more...
Capt. Dave Pinkham - Venice